How do we improve our aid statistics?

How do we improve our aid statistics?

Sian Rasdale, Sam Kutnick & Jane Casey

Presentation overview

Introduction

What is ODA?

What is the 0.7% target?

International reporting of ODA

UK ODA statistics

UK aid spend in 2013

Improvements to DFID’s statistical outputs

Definition of Official Development Assistance (ODA)

Official flows

DAC List of ODA

Recipients

Multilateral Organisations

Primary purpose is the economic development and

welfare of developing country

Concessional in character and conveys a grant element of at

least 25 per cent

What is ODA?

Activities designed to

combat terrorism

Research into tropical

diseases

Sponsoring athletes from developing countries

travel costs

Training of police.

Temporary assistance to

refugees from

developing countries

The supply of military

equipment and services

What is ODA?

Activities designed to

combat terrorism

Research into tropical

diseases

Sponsoring athletes from developing countries

travel costs

Training of civilian police.

Temporary assistance to

refugees from

developing countries

The supply of military

equipment and services

Why the British Government uses ODA?

• Target to spend 0.7% of GNI on aid in 2013• DFID and other UK government departments spend money

on aid which contributes to this target• ODA provides the internationally recognised definition to

report on aid spend in clear, transparent and accountable way – the OECD oversee this.

International Reporting – the OECD DAC

International Reporting - how the UK engages

• The Working Party for Statistics (WP-STAT) and the DAC Secretariat governs the reporting around ODA.

• The UK follows these guidelines, participates in this International Working Party and Reports ODA twice a year to the OECD estimates of ODA

• The UK assists with technical work of the WP-STAT at a statistical level and also works on the modernisation of ODA at a political level

Allows international Comparison / track global ODA to developing countries

Allows comparisons between different donors

In 2012, $127bn globally, was spent on ODA

What the UK does to collect, analyse and disseminate data on aid

Collect Analyse Disseminate

- The UK collects data from all ODA spending government departments and combined with DFID data

- Quality Assurance is run on the data collected

- Return QA’d data to the OECD DAC

- Data analysed on 2 basis – ODA and GPEX for NS Pubs

- Analysis mainly around global comparisons, sector breakdowns and regional breakdowns of spend.

- DAC analyses global ODA data

- UK data disseminated in National Statistics Publication

- OECD DAC disseminates detailed microdata on UK ODA spend (with project info)

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0.8ODA, £m ODA as % of GNI

0.7 UN target

Provisional UK aid spend in 2013

£11.4bnTotal ODA

£6.7bnBilateral

ODA

£4.8bnMultilateral

ODA

Total ODA Bilateral Multilateral0

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Percentage change 2012 - 2013

31%

21%

46%

What we know so far in 2013: Breakdown of aid spend by government department

Profile of UK aid spend 2012: where the UK’s bilateral aid is spent

Top 20 recipients of aid in 2012

Our National Statistics Publications

• Statistics on International Development (2013)

• Provisional ODA as a Proportion of GNI

Statistics on International Development

• Provides an overview of official UK spend on international development covering:

–Total UK spend on international development for the latest 2012 calendar year

–Trends over the past 5 years–Key breakdowns by destination country or organisation, type of

assistance and purpose– International comparisons

ODA vs GPEX

ODAOfficial Development Assistance

• International measure of aid spend• Figures on calendar year basis• Based on net flows of aid• Only includes aid to recipients

(countries and organisations) defined to be eligible by the DAC

• Detailed project information reported using DAC categories

GPEXGross Public Expenditure

• National measure of aid spend• Figures on financial year basis• Based on gross flows of aid• Includes aid to all countries• Includes total core contributions to

organisations• Detailed project information

reported using DFID categories

Types of information on bilateral ODA currently reported

Total grants, total non grants

Recipient country & region

Top 20 recipients

Government Department

Recipient country by

Government Dept

Sector Type of aid

Types of information on multilateral ODA currently reported

Total grants (of which UN & EC)

Subscriptions & promissory notes

(of which IDA, regional dev banks)

Multilateral agency spend by country

How do we improve the SID?

Commentary v Graphics

GPEX v ODA

UK v International comparisons

Detailed hot topics v general

overview

Multilateral v Bilateral

Detailed tables v summary

tables & raw data

Thank you!

For more information please see: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-international-development/about/statistics

Our short user consultation will be posted there next

week

Contact details:Neil Jackson (N-Jackson@dfid.gsx.gov.uk) Sian Rasdale (S-Rasdale@dfid.gsx.gov.uk) Sam Kutnick (S-Kutnick@dfid.gsx.gov.uk) Jane Casey (J-Casey@dfid.gsx.gov.uk)