Donor Tracker

The global donor community supported Guinea-Bissau with $140 million in 2014

Supporting evidence-based advocacy for global development

The Donor Tracker seeks to advance and support progress in global development by providing advocates with easy access to high-quality quantitative and qualitative strategic information to support their work.

The Donor Tracker is a unique online resource that offers free, independent, up-to-date analysis of 14 major OECD donors. Covering 90% of the world’s official development assistance (ODA), the Donor Tracker provides data-driven insights on strategic priorities, funding trends, decision-making and key opportunities.

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The Donor Tracker’s special features on trends and topics that are important to the global development community

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The Donor Tracker is an excellent tool for advocates everywhere to understand ODA budget processes in other countries and who the key players are in development policy.

Dr Christoph Benn, Director of External Relations at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Geneva

There is a lot of data available out there on official development assistance – but there is not a lot of in-depth analysis to help people understand the political and practical contexts in which donors make their ODA funding decisions. The Donor Tracker pulls this all together.

Ann Starrs, President and CEO of the Guttmacher Institute in New York

To advance the global health agenda, it is important to understand how donors think: What is important to them, what do they fund? Which political factors influence their preferences? The Donor Tracker responds to these questions for every major donor. It’s incredibly useful.

Dean Jamison, Professor of Global Health at the University of California in San Francisco

The Donor Tracker provides advocates working in global development with information that is critical for their work: It explains how political decisions are taken, what kind of strategic priorities donors have and helps them to identify key advocacy opportunities during the political year.

Joe Cerrell, Managing Director, Global Policy and Advocacy at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Policy Updates

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New report by conservative think tank calls for radical rethink of UK development assistance

A new report endorsed by former UK Foreign Minister Boris Johnson sets out a new vision for UK foreign policy and a radical rethink of its development cooperation. 'Global Britain: A Blueprint for the 21st century', written by Conservative MP Bob Steely and James Rogers, a strategist at the Henry Jackson Society think tank, calls for the UK’s foreign policy to refocus on three areas: freedom of trade, freedom from oppression, and freedom of thought. It proposes a unified national strategy for the UK’s foreign policy and a new strategy council that would help develop and oversee delivery.

The report has been published to influence an ongoing review by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) on the future of UK soft power post-Brexit. Among its other recommendations is integrating the Department for International Development (DFID) within FCO and rejecting OECD rules on what counts as official development assistance.

News article – The Guardian

Report – Henry Jackson Society

February 12, 2019

United Kingdom

Lowy Institute commentator urges Australia to ensure infrastructure loans to the Pacific target poverty alleviation

Writing for the Lowy Institute, Tim Watkin argues that Australia’s new A$2 billion (US$1.4 billion) loans program for infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific should be designed from the outset to serve poverty alleviation and sustainable development. Risk ratings by the IMF and the Asian Development Bank indicate that 10 countries in the Pacific are already in high or moderate debt distress. He points to the Papua New Guinea electrification partnership, a collaboration between Japan, New Zealand, the US, and Australia, as an example of planning that is focused on training for local communities and employment generation.

Blog - The Lowy Institute

February 12, 2019

Australia Education

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February 18-20, 2019: Australiasian Aid Conference side events take place in Canberra

The 2019 Australasian Aid Conference runs as part of the pre-conference program a series of four report and book launches will be open to the public. They will cover the role of ASEAN, Australian development policy, addressing inequality and marginalisation, and peace and justice in the Pacific.

Location: Canberra, Australia

Conference website - ANU Crawford School

February 18, 2019

February 20, 2019

Australia

February 19-20, 2019: Annual Australasian Development Conference

The Development Policy Centre of the Australian National University and the Asia Foundation have released a draft program for their 2019 development conference. Key topics include China's development cooperation and the future of Africa.

Dr Donald Kaberuka, former president of the African Development Bank, is the keynote speaker.

Location: Canberra, Australia

Conference Website - Development Policy Centre

February 19, 2019

February 20, 2019

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New report by conservative think tank calls for radical rethink of UK development assistance

Lowy Institute commentator urges Australia to ensure infrastructure loans to the Pacific target poverty alleviation

Events

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February 18-20, 2019: Australiasian Aid Conference side events take place in Canberra

February 19-20, 2019: Annual Australasian Development Conference

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