1. This section shows the destination countries of UK bilateral assistance and, for multilateral assistance, the organisations to which flows are directed. It also presents the UK imputed share of Multilateral ODA by country.
2. In this section, Tables 9 to 17 show aid flows to individual countries, regions and country groupings. Table 18 gives details of UK multilateral assistance and Table 19 shows UK flows to Civil Society Organisations. Some tables report GPEX/ DFID data and others ODA, as indicated by the table titles.
3. In 2009/10 DFID provided bilateral assistance to 90 countries, of which 41 countries received direct financial aid (i.e. General Budget Support, Sector Budget Support or Other Financial Aid). These 41 countries received a total of £2,223m in 2009/10; excluding humanitarian assistance the total was £2,003. This is equivalent to 91 per cent of DFID bilateral country specific expenditure (excluding humanitarian assistance). This is an increase over the 2008/09 figure of 88 per cent.
4. In 2009/10, 64 countries received humanitarian assistance, of which 27 also received financial aid and 16 received humanitarian assistance only (although some of these were notionally allocated from CERF).
5. Tables 9 to 11 highlight the top twenty recipient countries of DFID bilateral assistance and UK ODA (the former is shown including and excluding humanitarian assistance). Table 12 shows the top ten recipients of DFID humanitarian assistance.
6. In 2009/10 India continued to receive by far the greatest amount of DFID bilateral assistance to an individual country (£295m), with Ethiopia in second place (£214m) and Bangladesh third (£149m). In total, the top twenty recipients of DFID’s bilateral assistance accounted for 83 per cent of DFID bilateral aid that could be allocated to a country. (Table 9).
7. Of UK net bilateral ODA, India (£334m), Ethiopia (£220m) and Afghanistan (£208m) were the top three recipients in 2009.
8. Ethiopia received the largest amount of DFID bilateral humanitarian assistance (£64m in 2009/10). Ethiopia ranked second in terms of overall receipt of DFID bilateral assistance. Excluding humanitarian assistance, Ethiopia also ranked highly at 2nd (Table 11).
9. Table 13 summarises data on DFID expenditure and GPEX for regions and a range of country groupings (e.g. Commonwealth countries, HIPC countries). Table 14 expands on Table 13 and reports by country.
10. Figure 10 summarises the DFID Bilateral Programme by region over the last five years. In 2009/10 42 per cent of DFID’s bilateral programme was spent in Africa, 28 per cent in Asia, 2 per cent to Europe, the Americas and the Pacific. The remaining 29 per cent was not allocated to a particular region as it benefited a number of partner countries across regions.
11. The proportion of non-country specific bilateral expenditure increased to 29 per cent in 2009/10 from 18 per cent (or by £555m). This is because in 2009/10 DFID made some large contributions to bilateral pooled funds from which it is not possible to directly track the funding to a particular country. For example, £203m to the Global Trade Liquidity Fund; £100m to the Environmental Transformation Fund; and £100m to the IDA Social Protection and Crisis Response fund.
12. UK multilateral assistance cannot be directly allocated to any one country. However, Tables 13 and 14 contain estimates of the UK’s imputed share of multilateral ODA by country and region (see Section 2 for an explanationof the methodology). Of the UK’s core contributions to multilateral organisations in 2008/09; £956m was spent as ODA in Africa, £496m in Asia, £324m in Europe, £93m in the Americas and £7m in the Pacific (Table 13).
13. Table 15 breaks down the DFID bilateral programme by income group ( Income groups are classified using 2007 GNI per capita thresholds, and differ from those used in the 05/08 PSA target which also excludes Iraq security expenditure) of the recipient countries. In 2009/10, 79 per cent of country specific DFID bilateral assistance was spent in low income countries.
14. Table 15 also shows how much of DFID bilateral assistance went to fragile states (See the Glossary for a definition). In 2009/10, 61 per cent (or £1.6 billion) of country specific DFID bilateral assistance was spent in fragile states.
15. Table 17 compares the percentages of bilateral ODA given to low, middle and high income countries for all DAC donors and for multilateral agencies in 2008. 63 per cent of the UK’s bilateral ODA went to low income countries. Table 17 shows that the UK gave a higher proportion of its bilateral ODA to low income countries than a number of other DAC donors. Eight countries gave less than 50 per cent of their bilateral ODA to low income countries; Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Portugal and Spain.
16. Table 18 shows both DFID and UK Other Government Departments multilateral assistance to different organisations. In 2009/10 DFID provided £2,436m of multilateral assistance, with the greatest amounts going to the European Commission (£1,186m), World Bank (£560m) and United Nations (£216m).
17. In 2009/10 contributions to Regional Development Banks were £181 million. Contributions to Global Environmental Assistance (GEA) remained level at £35 million and the Global Fund to Fight Aids, TB and Malaria (GFATM) increased from £50 million to £163 million in 2009/10.
18. CSOs are non-governmental organisations which play a vital role in building global alliances in support of eliminating world poverty. Table 19 shows expenditure in the last financial year to these agencies and the types of arrangements through which funds were given (terms are explained in the glossary).
19. In total, funds disbursed through UK CSOs rose to £362m in 2009/10 from £337m in 2008/09 (7%). The British Red Cross was the single largest recipient of DFID funding (£40m), followed by VSO (£34m) and the International Rescue Committee (£26m).
20. Of the total funds disbursed through CSOs in 2009/10, £129m was from Programme Partnership Agreements; £12m from the Civil Society Challenge Fund; £11m from the Governance Transparency Fund; £50m for humanitarian Assistance; and £160m came from other DFID bilateral programmes.
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