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Factsheet
6 February 2023

Aid in 2021: Key facts about official development assistance

Our factsheet highlights key analysis of global aid reported in 2021. It includes the latest DAC data on providers, recipients, sectors and climate targeting.

Consultancy
7 February 2023

Food insecurity in South Sudan: Funding to local actors

The Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD) commissioned DI to conduct research into the role of local and national actors in the response to the current hunger crisis in South Sudan.

Factsheet
7 February 2023

Trends in ODA through multilateral organisations

Donors are increasingly providing more earmarked than core funding. This factsheet looks at the current trends in ODA disbursed by multilateral organisations.

Factsheet
28 February 2023

Economic poverty trends: global, regional and national

Poverty is complex and it can be described and measured in a variety of ways. In this factsheet we unpack some of the key terminology alongside the latest trends in poverty at the global, regional and national levels.

Discussion paper
6 March 2023

Should Global Public Investment finance social protection?

National social protection programmes have clear global benefits. Why might Global Public Investment – a new vision for international cooperation – fund them?

Data tool
6 March 2023

Global, regional and national trends in economic poverty

Two interactive charts let you explore global, regional and national trends in the number and proportion of people living in poverty between 1990 and 2022.

Report
8 March 2023

Why Wait? How the Humanitarian System Can Better Fund Women-Led and Women’s Rights Organisations

This report from IRC, produced with support from DI, looks at the quality and quantity of funding to women’s rights and women-led organisations responding to gender based violence in emergencies in three country contexts: Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Ukraine.

Discussion paper
9 March 2023

Donor approaches to overheads for local and national partners

This paper, produced by DI in partnership with UNICEF, summarises donors’ current indirect cost policies and perspectives on the issue of overhead allocation to local actors, and sets out opportunities and barriers to change.

Consultancy
15 March 2023

Leaving no crisis behind with assistance for the triple nexus: Humanitarian, development and peace funding in crisis contexts

This report, produced by Development Initiatives and SIDA, finds that protracted crisis countries increasingly rely on humanitarian assistance over funding for development and peace objectives.