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NEWS ROUNDUP – WHO IS USING AID AND DEVELOPMENT DATA? AND WHAT’S MISSING FROM
THE WORLD BANK’S DRAFT GENDER STRATEGY?

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Posted 15 Feb 2024 Originally published 15 Feb 2024 Origin View original

BY SAM CAVENETT

Welcome to the latest monthly roundup of news from the world of aid and
development transparency.


WHO ACTUALLY USES AID AND DEVELOPMENT DATA?

Publish What You Fund has long campaigned for more and better aid and
development data. And our recent research has indicated that improvements in
publication mean that we now have a global dataset that can be used for a range
of purposes. But who is actually using this data, and why?

We’ve just compiled a list of real-life examples of how organisations are using
aid and development data to inform evidenced-based policy and funding decisions,
research and campaigns, to facilitate media scrutiny and donor efficiency. It
features examples such as a Cambridge University led study of the role of
private contractors in international development, the Climate Policy
Initiative’s tracking of climate finance flows, the Liberian government’s use of
aid and development data through the Liberian Project Dashboard, a Devex story
on the ODA spending of the European Union, the Institute for Health Metrics and
Evaluation work to understand development assistance for global health, the
Follow the Money campaign monitoring the implementation of aid programmes in
Africa, a CNN investigation into donors who have funded churches in Ghana that
support an anti-LGBTQI+ bill, and Save the Children tracking aid to nutrition to
hold donors accountable for their commitments. It’s not an exhaustive list, so
if you know of other examples please get in touch.


WHAT’S MISSING FROM THE WORLD BANK’S DRAFT GENDER STRATEGY? TRANSPARENCY

As the World Bank prepares to finalise its new gender strategy, we ask how you
can identify World Bank projects targeting gender equality, their location,
sector, amount of funding and most importantly their impact. In short, you
can’t. In a new blog, Alex Farley and Sally Paxton set out why this matters for
accountability and how the Bank should address the transparency gaps in its
gender strategy and implementation plan.


OTHER NEWS

Here’s a quick roundup of other news and publications we’ve been reading over
the last few weeks:

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has released
final official development assistance (ODA) figures for 2022, which show that
assistance from all official providers, non-Development Assistance Committee
(DAC) and multilateral organisations reached US$245 bn (a 24% increase over
2021). ODA from DAC member countries in 2022 rose to an all-time high of
US$211bn, which represents 0.37% of member countries combined gross national
income (GNI). Four countries – Germany, Luxembourg, Norway, and Sweden – met or
exceeded the 0.7% ODA/GNI target. Spending on “in-donor” refugee costs amounted
to US$31bn or 14.6% of ODA and aid for Ukraine amounted to US$17.8bn. You can
also watch the launch event and discussion.

The ONE Campaign has also analysed the OECD data and highlights that 30% of
total ODA went to Ukraine, in donor refugee costs and for COVID-19. All other
aid actually decreased between 2019 and 2022 by 3.6%. It also points out that
only 25.6% of ODA went to African countries, while 15.3% went to low-income
countries.

Transparency International has launched the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI)
2023, which shows that corruption levels remain stagnant globally. Only 28 of
the 180 countries measured have improved their corruption levels over the last
twelve years, and 34 countries have significantly worsened (including Sweden and
the UK). The CPI uses a scale of zero to 100, where zero is highly corrupt and
100 is very clean. The average global score was 43. For the sixth year in a row,
Denmark heads the ranking, with a score of 90, followed by Finland and New
Zealand. Somalia, Venezuela, Syria and South Sudan are at the bottom of the
index.

The European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights (EPF) has
launched the SRHR Donor Funding Atlas 2023. The Atlas scores 30 donor countries
on their development funding for sexual and reproductive health and rights
(SRHR) based on political commitment, policies in force and funding. It ranks
Germany as the best performing country, while the Slovak Republic is the worst.
The Atlas also considers the goal (set in 2002) that at least 10% of ODA is
dedicated to SRHR and finds that the US is the only donor to meet this
benchmark. Overall, it states that the current funding is manifestly unable to
match the SRHR demands in lower and middle income countries.

The Institute for Journalism and Social Change has released a new report which
uses OECD data to examine the decline in humanitarian and development aid for
Palestine between 2013-2022. According to the report, ODA for Palestine
decreased by 10% over the decade (to under US$2.4 bn in 2022). In contrast, aid
from all official donors increased by almost 69% between 2013 and 2022. It also
used IATI data to identify aid-funded health and education facilities recently
damaged or destroyed in Gaza.

The Clean Air Fund has analysed funding from philanthropic foundations to tackle
air pollution between 2015 and 2022. A total of US$330m of known funding went to
air quality projects over this time range and stood at US$71.3m in 2022.
However, this accounts for less than 0.1% of all philanthropic foundation
funding. The research identified 79 foundations providing funding for air
quality initiatives between 2015 and 2022, but Africa received only 1% (US$1.9m)
and Latin America 2% (US$5.7m) of the total funding.

In an opinion piece for Development Today, Simon Scott, a former head of the
Statistics on Development Finance Division of the OECD, criticises new OECD
rules on how private sector instruments (PSIs) will be counted as ODA. He writes
that PSIs are “simply the non-concessional flows that ODA always left out as
they involved no wealth transfer to developing countries”. He questions the
validity of scoring ODA on transactions that make money rather than cost money
and warns that the aid community will need to look beyond the DAC for an
objective measure of aid performance.

And in a follow-up piece for Development Today, Jon Lomøy, former Director of
the OECD Development Cooperation Department and former Director General of
Norad, argues that the group responsible for deciding on ODA rules and reform
would take better, more legitimate decisions if it was widened to include aid
recipient countries.

Devex has been tracking which donors have announced funding support for Gaza –
and has also tracked current funding appeals as well as ODA received previously
by the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

A Center for Global Development (CGD) blog looks at three problems with the UK’s
aid target (currently to spend 0.5% of GNI) and how it is put into practice. The
authors propose three improvements to the design of the aid target that would
help to ensure the aid budget is managed and spent well.

Humanitarian Aid International has announced the launch of the Dashboard for Aid
Transparency and Accountability (DATA). The primary aim of the dashboard is to
enhance the financial transparency of humanitarian funding in India and track
the funds reaching grassroots organisations. It provides a common platform to
humanitarian organisations in India, and donors worldwide contributing funds to
India, to publish their financial data.

Another CGD blog looks at how multilateral development banks (MDBs) measure
their success. Looking at how impact is defined on the corporate scorecards of
seven MDBs, the authors found it hard to assess the MDBs’ contribution to
development or climate goals. They make the case for stronger, more consistent
measurement.

The Trust, Accountability and Inclusion Collaborative (TAI) has shared new
research on funding for anti-corporate capture work. Corporate capture is
defined as the undue influence of private organisations on decision-makers and
public institutions. The report finds that anti-corporate-capture efforts
receive relatively little funding (US$20m from 2018 to 2021) compared to private
sector development.

Donor Tracker is launching a series of donor budget toolkits, to help readers
understand the budget timeline, how it translates into ODA spending and
decision-making processes. Spain and Australia budget profiles have been
published, the 12th and 13th largest OECD DAC donors in absolute terms.

New research from the Center for International Media Assistance found that OECD
DAC donors contributed 0.3% of ODA to media freedom, pluralism and independence
between 2010 and 2019. The authors argue that this does not match with the
policy statements made by donors in support of quality, independent media.

ODI has looked into the 2023 update of the World Health Organization Global
Health Expenditure Database (GHED) and says it shows a reversal in the long-run
de-prioritisation of spending on health by governments in sub-Saharan Africa.
While the GHED is the best source of such data, ODI states that improvements in
timeliness, completeness and the quality of the data are needed to inform global
efforts to achieve universal health coverage.


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