Transcript AidWatch Report 2011

AidWatch
Report 2011
• 6th annual CONCORD report
monitoring EU performance on aid
quantity and quality.
• Produced by AidWatch, a panEuropean network of aid experts
working on aid quantity and quality.
• Web: aidwatch.concordeurope.org
•Launch date: 19 May
2005 was a important year for aid
 EU Council agreed on aid targets for 2010 and 2015:
2010
2015
EU15
0.51%
0.7%
EU12
0.17%
0.33%
EU27
0.56%
0.7%
 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness: 16 aid effectiveness
targets and indicators agreed for 2010
Aid quantity analysis
 EU reached only 0.43% ODA/GNI
 Collective shortfall amounts to nearly €15 billion
 Only 7 EU member states reached their aid target, while 9
EU member states are above EU targets
1.20
0.35
1.00
0.3
0.80
0.25
0.60
0.2
0.40
0.15
0.20
0.1
0.00
0.05
0
Cyprus
Malta
Slovenia
Czech Lithuania Estonia Hungary Romania Poland Slovak
Republic
Republic
2009 ODA in % of GNI
2010 ODA in % of GNI
2009 ODA in % of GNI
2010 ODA in % of GNI
Target 2010: 0.51% of GNI
Target 2015: 0.7% of GNI
Target 2010: 0.17% of GNI
Target 2015: 0.33% of GNI
Latvia
Bulgaria
Aid inflation (1/2)
 At least € 5.2 billion (or nearly 10%) of all EU aid is
‘inflated’ or ‘phantom’ aid
 EU donors continue to report debt relief (€2.5bn), student
costs (€1.6bn) and refugee costs (€1.1bn) as aid
 These items do not represent value for development or a
transfer of resources to partner countries
Aid inflation (2/2)
Country
Cyprus
Belgium
Austria
Genuine aid Total aid % 2010 total Inflated aid
% GNI
GNI
aid
% total aid
0.20%
0.12%
34
41%
0.64%
0.50%
2,265
23%
0.32%
0.25%
905
23%
France
0.40%
0.50%
9,751
Greece
0.14%
0.17%
378
Netherlands
0.71%
0.81%
4,795
Romania
0.06%
0.07%
86
Czech Republic
0.11%
0.12%
169
Germany
0.35%
0.38%
9,606
Sweden
0.89%
0.97%
3,418
Slovenia
0.12%
0.13%
48
Spain
0.40%
0.43%
4,467
Italy
0.14%
0.15%
2,349
Slovak Republic
0.08%
0.09%
56
Portugal
0.28%
0.29%
489
Denmark
0.87%
0.90%
2,164
Finland
0.53%
0.55%
1,008
Latvia
0.06%
0.06%
12
UK
0.55%
0.56%
10,391
Estonia
0.10%
0.10%
14
Luxembourg
1.09%
1.09%
301
Ireland
0.53%
0.53%
676
Lithuania
0.10%
0.10%
28
Hungary
0.09%
0.09%
85
19%
15%
13%
13%
11%
9%
8%
8%
7%
7%
7%
6%
4%
4%
4%
2%
1%
0%
0%
0%
0%
2010
2009
EU 2010 target
genuine aid genuine aid
met?
yes
20
16
yes
1,755
1,705
696
689
no
7,915
7,327
no
320
357
no
4,179
4,333
yes
75
76
no
150
149
no
8,760
7,856
no
3,148
3,033
yes
44
45
no
4,171
4,555
no
2,176
2,226
no
52
49
no
462
335
no
2,081
1,961
yes
969
897
yes
11
15
no
10,224
8,225
yes
14
14
no
301
289
yes
676
715
yes
28
30
no
85
83
no
EU aid and climate change financing
 EU provided €2.35 billion of climate change financing until end
2010
 Most EU member states report climate change financing as aid
 Aid is double-counted for climate change financing and poverty
eradication
 EU needs to find a common positions as to what ‘additionality’
means
Aid quality analysis
 Democratic ownership
 Conditionality
 Consultations with CSOs
 Transparency
 Ranking of 25 European donors based on survey and their
commitment to transparency
 Gender
 Gender Action Plan
2011 needs to see a strong push for
aid effectiveness
 2010 aid effectiveness targets have not been met
 Paris and Accra are already delivering significant change
 Busan-HLF needs to result in an agreement that deepens the
Paris and Accra reform commitments
 EU needs to pro-actively engage ahead of HLF4 and lead by
example
 EU domestic priorities must not outcrowd partner country
priorities
Recommendations (1/3)
 Ensuring that the EU provides genuine resources for
development, firmly focused on the eradication of poverty as
demanded by Lisbon Treaty by
 ending inflation of aid budgets with debt cancellation, refugee and
student costs;
 ensuring that climate financing is additional to existing to ODA
commitments; and
 ending the misuse of aid for national security, migration and
commercial interests and protect ODA standards from further
weakening.
 Implementing on top of their aid quantity commitments, a
financial transaction tax to help finance global public goods
such as poverty reduction and climate change.
Recommendations (2/3)
 Ensuring an ambitious and binding international
agreement at the HLF4 that reaffirms and deepens the
Paris and Accra commitments and includes clear time-bound
targets and an independent and inclusive monitoring of
implementation at the international and national levels.
 Ensuring that, by the upcoming HLF4 in Busan, they deliver
timely, comprehensive and comparable aid
information that is compatible with emerging best practice
as set out in common standard developed by IATI.
Recommendations 3/3
 Putting gender equality and women’s empowerment at the
centre of development cooperation by supporting the
implementation of the EU gender action plan with
the financial and human resources, and taking stock of best
practices in EU member states.
 Promoting democratic ownership by
 Ending the use of economic policy and other sensitive
conditions; and
 Increasing political and financial support to CSOs, Parliaments
and oversight bodies, particularly to ensure democratic
ownership and broad accountability.
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