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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)
Provisional UK aid spend in 2013
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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
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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 ([email protected])
Sian Rasdale ([email protected])
Sam Kutnick ([email protected])
Jane Casey ([email protected])
