1. This release reports on the deployment of official financial resources by the United Kingdom to support international development, and shows how this funding is broken down by destination country or organisation, type of assistance and purpose.
2. This report provides information on the UK’s Gross Public Expenditure on Development (GPEX) which includes both the Department for International Development (DFID) programme and the element of official UK aid that is delivered through other UK Government Departments. This report also provides information on the level of Official Development Assistance (ODA) provided by the UK.
3. The UK GPEX data presented in this report are produced on a mainly cash basis and are broadly consistent with the standards followed in the reporting of ODA.
4. This publication also covers detailed information on the DFID programme. The DFID programme includes bilateral and multilateral expenditure from DFID funds voted by Parliament including activities funded from the Conflict Pool. Beyond DFID voted funds, the DFID programme also includes an attribution of EC budgetary spending (the UK is attributed a share of the EC’s External Assistance Budget based on total UK contributions to the EC. Each budget line is then attributed to either DFID or other UK government departments ). This report excludes some DFID voted funds which are not counted as aid.
5. The UK is a member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC) which contains 24 members. The DAC sets the definitions and classifications for reporting on aid financing internationally, including ODA, and produces a statistical report on international aid flows annually. As a DAC member, the UK is committed to transparent reporting of development assistance in a way that permits international comparisons.
6. As well as ODA, the DAC also requires international reporting of ‘Other Official Flows’ (OOF). These are official flows to developing countries that do not meet the ODA criteria. More information on OOF is provided in the Glossary.
7. The 2009 UK ODA figures have been revised since the publication of Statistics on International Development 2010. Revisions have been previously set out in the release of Provisional UK ODA as a proportion of GNI in March 2011. These revisions reflect the result of final verification of the figures by the OECD DAC to ensure full consistency with its reporting standards.
8. The main revision reflects clarification of the status of DFID’s loan to the International Finance Corporation (IFC) for the ‘Global Trade Liquidity Programme’. Further examination of the precise terms of the loan by the OECD has determined that the grant element is calculated at 12% rather than the 25% necessary for it to be reported as ODA. Consequently the £203 million value of the loan has been removed from 2009 ODA flows and reclassified as Other Official Flows (OOF).
9. Further revisions have also been made to adjust for accounting errors affecting DFIDs ODA to India. These revisions have resulted in positive revisions to the 2009 total ODA figure (as well as to ODA to India). Total ODA to India in 2009 is now estimated at £404 million.
10. There have also been a number of small revisions to classifications of individual projects. The full revised data are now available on the DAC’s online database.
11. The net effect of these revisions reduces total ODA in 2009 to £7,223m or 0.51% of GNI compared to the previously published figures of £7,356 or 0.52% GNI.
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