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Donors pledge US$529m at South Sudan conference – US$1.2bn of requirements unmet
Donors pledged US$529 million in new money at the high level meeting on South Sudan, hosted by the UN and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, i
UK aid set to increase in line with economic growth
UK aid increased by almost a third in 2013 to reach 0.7%* of gross national income (GNI). If future British governments continue to meet the 0.7% target, a
DFID aid is more poverty-focused than other UK departments’
The UK’s aid (official development assistance, or ODA) budget is split across a number of different departments – including DFID, the Foreign & Commonw
Ghana’s rural savannah areas suffer persistently high poverty
According to the Ghana Living Standards Survey 2005–2013, rural savannah* areas reduced poverty incidence** by over a third, from 43% to 27%. These areas a
Iraq receives only a slight increase in humanitarian assistance in the face of rising needs
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) provided US$500 million against the Iraq Strategic Response Plan (SRP) in July 2014. When looking at cumulative funding t
UN agencies predominate as major first-level recipients to the Iraq Strategic Response Plan
Only 4% of humanitarian funding from international donors has been given directly to non-governmental organisations (NGOs); UN agencies have been the main first-level recipients.
The financial response to Ebola: Are there links between funding flows to countries and the number of cases?
The financial response to Ebola: Are there links between funding flows to countries and the number of cases?
Targeting the poorest 20%: the case of least developed countries
Aid to LDCs On the face of it, proportions of aid are broadly comparable to these shares. LDCs received 30% of total official development assistance (ODA)
The national details behind the global trends: 69 GHA country profiles now available
Today we are launching 12 new humanitarian country profiles, as well as updates of the existing 57. These include two new donor profiles, Luxembourg and It