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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US withdraws from UN Human Rights Council

The Trump administration has announced the US' withdrawal from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, accused the body of harboring a "cesspool of political bias". She cited the council's inclusion of members with a record of human rights violations, as well as chronic bias against Israel, as the chief reasons for US withdrawal.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein voiced dismay at the decision, and emphasized the need for US engagement in combating human rights violations. Haley nonetheless stated that the move was "not a retreat from our [the US'] human rights commitments".

News article - RTE News

June 20, 2018

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Norway to strengthen development cooperation with 16 countries

To more effectively use Norway's development assistance, Norway’s Development Minister, Nikolai Astrup, has announced a re-grouping of Norway's development partner countries into two categories:

Long-term development partnerships, which encompass support on economic growth, job creation, and tax system advisory. This group includes Colombia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Indonesia, Malawi, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Stabilization partnerships, which comprise of conflict resolution assistance. This group includes Afghanistan, Mali, Niger, Palestine, Somalia and South Sudan.

According to Astrup, this grouping will better support knowledge sharing and resource management in partner countries, as well as progress towards the sustainable development goals (SDGs).

Press release - Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (in Norwegian)

Policy document - Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (in Norwegian)

June 19, 2018

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June 24, 2018: Université de Moncton offers international summer course on 'Rights of the Child'

Featuring themes such as universality and realization of children’s rights in early childhood and educational services, and the right to education, the Université de Moncton is offering the seventh edition of its summer course on the Rights of the Child. With a focus on Articles 28 and 29 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, keynote speakers include a social pediatrician, a special rapporteur to the UN, a high-profile philanthropist, and Renate Winters, Chair of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.

Location: Moncton, Canada

Event website - Université de Moncton

June 24, 2018

Canada Education

June 25, 2018: Université de Montréal offers summer course on women in international security

The Université de Montréal offers a week-long summer course on women in international security, led by Stéfanie von Hlatky of Queen’s University and Marie-Joëlle Zahar of Université de Montréal. The course brings together academics and policymakers to discuss the role of women in international security and how including a gender perspective may influence the analysis and management of global-security issues. It aims to equip participants with an understanding of the complex issues of gender and international security, as well as to inform participants as to how they can incorporate gender into their own analyses.

Location: Montreal, Canada

Event website - Université de Montréal (in French)

June 25, 2018

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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

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US withdraws from UN Human Rights Council

Norway to strengthen development cooperation with 16 countries

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June 24, 2018: Université de Moncton offers international summer course on 'Rights of the Child'

June 25, 2018: Université de Montréal offers summer course on women in international security

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