Aid is under attack, let's protect it.

New data from 2024 is likely to show that rich countries, yet again, failed to meet their aid commitments with the gap widening.The world's poorest countries were to again likely to be the most heavily impacted. This is just a taste of what is to come in 2025 - a year in which USAID has been shuttered and many European governments have slashed their aid budgets.  It also shows that they face no accountability for this broken promise - because they set the rules themselves within the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). 

This has to change!

It is time to recognise that this continued failure, year after year, is not by chance. On the contrary, the exclusive and undemocratic nature of the OECD-DAC is simply incapable of holding rich country donors, its members, accountable to their commitments. With the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development only months away it is time to consider expanding the role of the United Nations in the governance of aid and a new era of accountability for Official Development Assistance (ODA).  

Join us for an expert panel on 23 April 2025. Register now!

Panellists

• Tanya Cox, Director, CONCORD
• Jean Saldanha, Director, Eurodad
• Abby Maxman, President, Oxfam America (USA)
• Vitalice Meja, Executive Director, RoA-Africa 
• OECD representative (TBC)
• Moderator:  Benjamin Fox, Africa Correspondent, EU Observer