1. This section considers which sectors UK aid supports within developing countries. DFID uses input sector codes to track its expenditure to sectors. An explanation on input sector codes is provided in Section 2. It is important that readers be aware that demonstrating the exact areas on which aid is being spent is not a simple and exact exercise and a certain amount of judgement is involved. Increasingly projects are multi-dimensional and address interrelated policy areas. In addition more innovative types of aid instruments are being introduced. Together these make attributing expenditure to specific topics difficult.
2. Figure 11 shows the split of DFID’s bilateral programme between sectors for 2007/08 to 2011/12. In 2011/12, 22 per cent of DFID’s bilateral programme was classified under the ‘Health’ sector (£929m). This was followed by the ‘Government & Civil Society’ (17% or £728m) and the ‘Education’ (15% or £625m) sectors. ‘Economic’ received the next largest amount with 13 per cent (£543m), followed by ‘Humanitarian Assistance’ with 8 per cent (£350m).
Figure 11 DFID Bilateral Programme by Sector, 2007/08 - 2011/12
3. The sector seeing the greatest increase in support in 2011/12 was ‘Health’, which increased by £99m (or 12%). There was also a large increase in the amount of DFID bilateral assistance to ‘Environment Protection’, which increased by £82m (or 61%).
4. Figure 12 shows how the DFID bilateral programme is broken down by sector and region. From this figure we can see that compared to the rest of the world, a higher percentage of funding was allocated to the basic services sectors in Africa and Asia (i.e. Health, Education, Water & Sanitation and Social Services). 5. In 2011/12, ‘Health’ was the largest sector in Africa (£430m), accounting for 23% of DFID bilateral assistance to Africa. The largest sector in Asia was ‘Government and Civil Society’, accounting for £265m or 23% of the Asia total. In Europe, the Americas and Pacific, ‘Government & Civil Society’ was the largest sector, accounting for £22m (or 38%) of the DFID bilateral assistance in that region.
6. In Africa, support to basic services increased by a total of £56m (or 6 per cent) between 2010/11 and 2011/12: there were increases to ‘Social Services (£13m), ‘Health’ (£67m) and ‘Water & Sanitation (£20m) while ‘Education’ decreased by £44m.
Figure 12 DFID Bilateral Programme by Region and Sector, 2010/11 to 2011/12
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