ODA Spending

How much ODA does Italy allocate to education?

Italy spent US$440 million of its ODA on education in 2023, or 8% of its total ODA. Italy was the 6^th largest DAC donor to education in 2023 and the 15^th largest in terms of relative share.

How is Italian educational ODA changing?

Italy’s funding for education has generally followed an upward trend in recent years and increased by 70% between 2021-2022, but fell in 2023.

Italy increasingly favors multilateral spending for education.

How does Italy allocate educational ODA?

Bilateral Spending

Italy sees investments in providing scholarships and support for student costs in donor-countries, and allocates 20% of its bilateral education ODA for these.

In 2023, Italy spent more than half of total education ODA as bilateral funding. It included 5% as earmarked funding through multilaterals.

Multilateral Spending and Commitments

In 2023, Italy provided 45% of ODA for education through multilateral organizations.

Top multilateral recipients of Italy's education ODA include. the EUI, IDA, and UNRWA.

Funding and Policy Outlook

What is the current government's outlook on educational ODA?

Gender equality plays a prominent role in Italy’s recent education programming guidelines, focusing on providing support for girls’ education in fragile and conflict-affected states and addressing quality of learning, as well as teacher training.

In January 2024, Italy hosted the Africa-Italy Summit to launch the pilot programs of Italy's flagship foreign policy initiative, also known as the Mattei Plan for Africa. The Mattei Plan identifies education and training as a priority area of intervention. Interventions will be aimed to promote training teachers, adjusting curricula, launching new vocational and training courses in line with the needs of the labor market, and collaborating with enterprises, particularly involving Italian operators and the Italian SMEs model.

Key Bodies