Resources
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UK aid trends in a challenging global context
Government aid cuts and converging global crises have had a substantial impact on the UK's ability to deliver on its development goals. In this briefing, we contextualise and analyse trends in UK ODA over the past decade.
Tracking aid and other international development finance in real time
This interactive data tool lets you track commitments and disbursements of aid and other global development finance between January 2018 and April 2023.
FCDO’s aid spending for nutrition: 2021
The latest data on the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)’s aid spending to improve nutrition, with breakdowns by country recipient and sector.
Global humanitarian assistance: crisis, funding and need
Four interactive charts let you explore global levels of crisis, vulnerability and need, the largest donors of international humanitarian assistance and how humanitarian financing is delivered.
Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2023
The Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2023 assesses the international financing response to crisis. Development Initiatives finds that more needs went unmet in 2022 than ever before.
Indirect costs for local and national partners: UN agencies and INGOs policy and practice mapping
These tables summarise the current policies and practices of several UN agencies, international non-governmental organisations (INGOs) and Red Cross Red Crescent organisations around the provision of overheads or indirect costs for local and national partners.
LNOB assessment in Nepal: Data landscaping in Simta municipality
This report, co-produced with BASE, draws on DI's data landscaping work in Simta, Nepal. It explains how to improve the data ecosystem to leave no one behind.
LNOB assessment in Nepal: Data landscaping in Tulsipur municipality
This report, co-produced with BASE, draws on DI's data landscaping work in Tulsipur, Nepal. It explains how to improve the data ecosystem to leave no one behind.
Trends in traditional and non-traditional aid flows to Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia
Aid is critical to bridging investment gaps in Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda. In this synthesis paper, we take a closer look at the financing landscape over the past decade.