• The first drop in ODA since 2017 sounds alarm bells for the future of aid, as new figures highlight a 7.1 per cent decrease
• The world’s poorest countries are among the most impacted. Just 16.5 per cent of aid reached Least Developed Countries in 2024, while 13.1 per cent remained in rich countries
• Will rich countries abandon aid in 2025? A panel of experts from Concord, Eurodad, Oxfam and Reality of Aid will answer this question on 23 April at 14h CEST. Register here

Preliminary aid figures for 2024 are a wake-up call for rich countries

Reaction of the DAC CSO Reference Group to the release of the preliminary ODA numbers for 2024.

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Written by by Evelien van Roemburg (Oxfam International), Javier García de la Oliva (ActionAid) and Jean Saldanha (Eurodad).

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The United Nations Development Cooperation Forum is unique in convening all actors under the UN umbrella to address issues that are elsewhere discussed in disparate institutional and policy silos, yet it struggles to gain influence and traction.  Strengthening this forum can be a first step towards renewing and heightening global commitments on international development cooperation.

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In this blog, Eurodad's Matthew Simonds and Maria Jose Romero assess the key takeaways from this week's OECD conference 'Mobilising private finance towards 2030 and beyond’.

As the European Commission is considering merging several existing instruments (those for humanitarian aid, development cooperation, and pre-accession assistance), a coalition of 48 civil society organisations is calling on President Von der Leyen to reject the proposal.