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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UK international development minister announces Great Partnership Initiative

UK Secretary of State for International Development Penny Mordaunt has announced a new initiative to rely more heavily on partnerships with civil society organizations and private organisations. Mordaunt’s Great Partnership Initiative, announced during the annual Bond conference of UK NGOs, aims to draw on these partners in a wider array of activities to deliver the UN’s global goals. Mordaunt highlighted work that has already begun, with the Department for International Development (DFID) working with Unilever to help low-income households and work with the Royal National Lifeboat Association to prevent drownings in Bangladesh.

Text of speech - DFID

March 18, 2019

United Kingdom

Right-wing UK Taxpayers' Alliance issues report calling for radical reform of UK development assistance

The UK Taypayers' Alliance, a right-wing campaign group that advocates for lower taxes, has issued a new report calling for radical reform of UK development assistance. The report, endorsed by Conservative Member of Parliament and former UK Development Minister Priti Patal, calls for the UK to introduce greater flexibility in meeting its target of providing 0.7% of gross national income (GNI) as official development assistance (ODA) by allowing for averages across calendar years.

In addition, the report calls on the UK to stop abiding by official international rules on how ODA is counted and reducing the volume of ODA it spends through multilateral organisations due to a perceived lack of UK oversight and control, and instead increase its spending to smaller UK NGOs. Finally, the report calls for the Department for International Development (DFID) to be given the ultimate responsibility for all ODA spending across the UK government, in recognition of concerns of misspending by other UK departments.

Report - UK Taxpayers' Alliance

News article - The Guardian

March 18, 2019

United Kingdom

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Events

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April 8, 2019: Melbourne workshop aims to deepen understanding of child labor in agriculture

The Australian Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Study Centre at RMIT University will host a workshop on child labor in agriculture.

The workshop will highlight evidence of the social and economic costs and benefits of child labor in the agricultural sector of developing countries. Participants are expected from academia, government and non-government organizations, and from disciplines including economics, political science, sociology, law, anthropology, and psychology.

Location: Melbourne, Australia

Conference website - Conference Monkey

April 8, 2019

April 9, 2019

Australia Agriculture

May 15-17, 2019: International Cooperation Expo on sustainable enterprise takes place in Rome

The International Cooperation Expo (EXCO 2019) is the world's first global exhibition dedicated to innovative solutions for sustainable development provided jointly by development agencies, governments, financial institutions, civil society, and the private sector. The expo includes an exhibition space, a structured program of business-to-business meetings, and an array of workshops and conferences.

According to Italian Director General of Development Cooperation Giorgio Marrapodi, the expo signals "a paradigm shift that sees the Italian private sector play a primary role in international cooperation" and supports companies to invest in sustainable development in line with Agenda 2030.

Website -EXCO 2019

May 15, 2019

May 17, 2019

Italy

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UK international development minister announces Great Partnership Initiative

Right-wing UK Taxpayers' Alliance issues report calling for radical reform of UK development assistance

Events

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April 8, 2019: Melbourne workshop aims to deepen understanding of child labor in agriculture

May 15-17, 2019: International Cooperation Expo on sustainable enterprise takes place in Rome

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