In Sub-Saharan Africa, ******** received the highest amount of net official development assistance (ODA) from official donors in 2022, reaching roughly *****billion U.S. dollars. Nigeria was the second largest recipient, followed by the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Worldwide, Ukraine received the highest net sum.

In 2023, Sub-Saharan Africa received the most humanitarian aid from the United States, with disbursements reaching approximately ************* U.S. dollars. The Middle-East and North Africa was the second-highest recipient of humanitarian aid from the U.S., with disbursements reaching over ************* U.S. dollars in 2023. Obligations are liabilities legally incurred and committed to be paid for by the government either immediately or in the future.Disbursements refer to the actual withdrawal of cash from the Bureau of the Treasury due to the encashment of checks issued by agencies and payment of budgetary obligations.

Abstract

If a donor gives aid for a project that the recipient government would have undertaken anyway, then the aid is financing some expenditure other than the intended project. The notion that aid in this sense may be "fungible," while long recognized, has recently been receiving some empirical support. The paper "What Does Aid to Africa Finance?" focuses on Sub-Saharan Africa—the region with the largest GDP share of aid—and presents results that indicate that aid may be partially fungible, and suggests some reasons why.

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Geographic coverage

The database includes data from Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ethiopia, The Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Nigeria, Sudan, Swaziland, Zaire, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

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The novel coronavirus pandemic has unsettled the political, economic and social structures of the world. Yet, in the context of global economies in recession, opportunities also abound for many countries, including in Africa, to pursue new directions in governance and management. For instance, the pandemic may be closing gaps between the so-called developed and the developing worlds, thereby giving African countries some geopolitical and economic leverage, both in terms of international alliances and managing fiscal challenges. This project, using the case of Sierra Leonne, focuses on how African countries can chart new paths is their management and governance of foreign aid. The project investigates how aid-funded projects are implemented in Africa using the yardstick of the World Bank’s International Good Governance Standard and, in the process, answers the question of how African countries can alternatively and efficiently administer and manage foreign aid-funded projects? This question is important because Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the world’s most aided regions. Aid as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the region has averaged around 5% for much of the past two decades. Aid has reached nearly 10% at times and still equals nearly 6% of the region’s GDP. Yet, the growth records of nearly all African countries have thus far been unsatisfactory compared with the amount of aid funds received. The case of high aid flows into African economies, on one hand, and evidence of abysmal growth outcomes, on the other, have led to questions about the usefulness of foreign aid. At a time when Africa’s traditional donor countries are biting the dust, due to the pandemic, these questions become even more crucial. The project calls for a rethink of Africa’s economic management practices to meet the needs of present times.

Financial overview and grant giving statistics of Mahafa Medical and Humanitarian Aid for Africa

State fragility has received an increasing attention in recent decades as a result of the nexus between development and international stability. This study investigates the empirical drivers of state fragility in sub-Saharan Africa from 2007 to 2019. We shed light on the explanatory variables of government effectiveness, political stability, per-capita GDP, grow GDP%, International Monetary Fund (IMF loans), and Official Development Assistance (ODA). Using panel data analysis and a 39-country sample, our study finds that government efficiency and political stability, in contrast to foreign aid, has a significant effect on reducing fragility in sub-Saharan Africa. In light of these findings, the article proposes delivering foreign aid in ways that strengthen state capacity. Devlet kırılganlığı, kalkınma ve uluslararası istikrar arasındaki bağlantının bir sonucu olarak son yıllarda giderek artan bir ilgi görmektedir. Bu makale, 2007-2019 yılları arasında Sahra Altı Afrika'da devlet kırılganlığının ampirik belirleyicilerini araştırmaktadır. Çalışmada, hükümet etkinliği, siyasi istikrar, kişi başına GSYİH, büyüme, Uluslararası Para Fonu (IMF kredileri) ve Resmi Kalkınma Yardımı (ODA) gibi açıklayıcı değişkenlere odaklanılmaktadır. Panel veri analizi ve 39 ülke örneğini kullanan çalışma, hükümet etkinliğinin ve siyasi istikrarın, dış yardımın aksine, Sahra Altı Afrika'daki kırılganlığı azaltmada olumlu bir etkiye sahip olduğunu tespit etmiştir. Bu bulgular ışığında, makale, dış yardımın devlet kapasitesini güçlendirecek şekillerde sağlanmasını önermektedir.

This work aims to explore whether China’s aid projects increase access to electricity in Sub-Saharan African countries with considering the spatial spillover effects among the recipient countries. To better understand the effect of China's aid projects on the access to electricity, the research compares the aid projects and technical assistance of OECD. The Moran index of Chinese aid projects is close to 0, indicating that the spatial distribution of project aid is random, and thus benefits a region. Whereas technical assistance usually benefits a specific country. The estimated coefficients of the direct and indirect effects of both aid projects and technical assistance in the short-term are positive, indicating that both aids help the recipient countries to increase access to electricity in the short-term. The misallocation effect of aid resources from neighboring countries can inhibit the access to electricity of recipient countries. The coefficient of the time lag term is roughly 0.5, indicating that the access to electricity of recipient countries not only has spatial spillover effects but also temporal path dependence effects. However, the spatial spillover effect has a greater impact on the access to electricity of recipient countries than the path dependence effect. (2023-01-14

South Africa ZA: Net Bilateral Aid Flows from Development Assistance Committee Donors: United States data was reported at 490.930 USD mn in 2016. This records an increase from the previous number of 336.050 USD mn for 2015. South Africa ZA: Net Bilateral Aid Flows from Development Assistance Committee Donors: United States data is updated yearly, averaging 111.890 USD mn from Dec 1993 (Median) to 2016, with 24 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 555.960 USD mn in 2011 and a record low of 66.000 USD mn in 1993. South Africa ZA: Net Bilateral Aid Flows from Development Assistance Committee Donors: United States data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s South Africa – Table ZA.World Bank: Defense and Official Development Assistance. Net bilateral aid flows from DAC donors are the net disbursements of official development assistance (ODA) or official aid from the members of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC). Net disbursements are gross disbursements of grants and loans minus repayments of principal on earlier loans. ODA consists of loans made on concessional terms (with a grant element of at least 25 percent, calculated at a rate of discount of 10 percent) and grants made to promote economic development and welfare in countries and territories in the DAC list of ODA recipients. Official aid refers to aid flows from official donors to countries and territories in part II of the DAC list of recipients: more advanced countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the countries of the former Soviet Union, and certain advanced developing countries and territories. Official aid is provided under terms and conditions similar to those for ODA. Part II of the DAC List was abolished in 2005. The collection of data on official aid and other resource flows to Part II countries ended with 2004 data. DAC members are Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, and European Union Institutions. Regional aggregates include data for economies not specified elsewhere. World and income group totals include aid not allocated by country or region. Data are in current U.S. dollars.; ; Development Assistance Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Geographical Distribution of Financial Flows to Developing Countries, Development Co-operation Report, and International Development Statistics database. Data are available online at: www.oecd.org/dac/stats/idsonline.; Sum;

Breaking down the total official development assistance (ODA) distributed from members of the development assistance committee (DAC) in 2023 by region, the highest amount went to social infrastructure projects such as education and health. This was especially the case in Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, which received ************* and******billion U.S. dollars to this sector, respectively. Humanitarian aid also made up a significant amount in these regions.

Financial overview and grant giving statistics of Help Aid Africa

Data on incoming aid to South Africa from a number of different donors published using the International Aid Transparency Initiative standard. A range of tools and open source code for working with IATI data can be found at http://wiki.iatistandard.org IATI data covers over 50% of official development assistance, and an increasing number of projects by non-governmental organisations / charities. You can use the data to find details of projects and aid activities, and in many cases detailed aid transactions and geocoded project details.

Of the recipients in the Middle East and North Africa Israel received the most foreign assistance from the United States in 2023, with disbursements reaching over *** billion U.S. dollars. The Middle-East and North Africa was the second-highest recipient of foreign aid from the U.S., with disbursements reaching over ** billion U.S. dollars in 2023.

South Africa ZA: Net Bilateral Aid Flows from Development Assistance Committee Donors: European Commission data was reported at 102.060 USD mn in 2016. This records a decrease from the previous number of 260.780 USD mn for 2015. South Africa ZA: Net Bilateral Aid Flows from Development Assistance Committee Donors: European Commission data is updated yearly, averaging 136.705 USD mn from Dec 1993 (Median) to 2016, with 24 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 322.640 USD mn in 2011 and a record low of 36.980 USD mn in 1996. South Africa ZA: Net Bilateral Aid Flows from Development Assistance Committee Donors: European Commission data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s South Africa – Table ZA.World Bank: Defense and Official Development Assistance. Net bilateral aid flows from DAC donors are the net disbursements of official development assistance (ODA) or official aid from the members of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC). Net disbursements are gross disbursements of grants and loans minus repayments of principal on earlier loans. ODA consists of loans made on concessional terms (with a grant element of at least 25 percent, calculated at a rate of discount of 10 percent) and grants made to promote economic development and welfare in countries and territories in the DAC list of ODA recipients. Official aid refers to aid flows from official donors to countries and territories in part II of the DAC list of recipients: more advanced countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the countries of the former Soviet Union, and certain advanced developing countries and territories. Official aid is provided under terms and conditions similar to those for ODA. Part II of the DAC List was abolished in 2005. The collection of data on official aid and other resource flows to Part II countries ended with 2004 data. DAC members are Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, and European Union Institutions. Regional aggregates include data for economies not specified elsewhere. World and income group totals include aid not allocated by country or region. Data are in current U.S. dollars.; ; Development Assistance Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Geographical Distribution of Financial Flows to Developing Countries, Development Co-operation Report, and International Development Statistics database. Data are available online at: www.oecd.org/dac/stats/idsonline.; Sum;

South Africa ZA: Net Bilateral Aid Flows from Development Assistance Committee Donors: Belgium data was reported at 19.200 USD mn in 2016. This records an increase from the previous number of 12.960 USD mn for 2015. South Africa ZA: Net Bilateral Aid Flows from Development Assistance Committee Donors: Belgium data is updated yearly, averaging 14.670 USD mn from Dec 1994 (Median) to 2016, with 23 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 24.770 USD mn in 2006 and a record low of 0.070 USD mn in 1994. South Africa ZA: Net Bilateral Aid Flows from Development Assistance Committee Donors: Belgium data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s South Africa – Table ZA.World Bank: Defense and Official Development Assistance. Net bilateral aid flows from DAC donors are the net disbursements of official development assistance (ODA) or official aid from the members of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC). Net disbursements are gross disbursements of grants and loans minus repayments of principal on earlier loans. ODA consists of loans made on concessional terms (with a grant element of at least 25 percent, calculated at a rate of discount of 10 percent) and grants made to promote economic development and welfare in countries and territories in the DAC list of ODA recipients. Official aid refers to aid flows from official donors to countries and territories in part II of the DAC list of recipients: more advanced countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the countries of the former Soviet Union, and certain advanced developing countries and territories. Official aid is provided under terms and conditions similar to those for ODA. Part II of the DAC List was abolished in 2005. The collection of data on official aid and other resource flows to Part II countries ended with 2004 data. DAC members are Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, and European Union Institutions. Regional aggregates include data for economies not specified elsewhere. World and income group totals include aid not allocated by country or region. Data are in current U.S. dollars.; ; Development Assistance Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Geographical Distribution of Financial Flows to Developing Countries, Development Co-operation Report, and International Development Statistics database. Data are available online at: www.oecd.org/dac/stats/idsonline.; Sum;

In 2023, by far the highest amount of food aid from members of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) was given to countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Nearly *** million U.S. dollars was distributed to this region. The Middle East was the second largest recipient region with *** million dollars. Food aid is development aid specifically targeted towards countries and regions where a crisis is ongoing or at risk of breaking out. Over the past years, the amount of food aid distributed has been increasing.

South Africa ZA: Net Bilateral Aid Flows from Development Assistance Committee Donors: Finland data was reported at 1.540 USD mn in 2016. This records a decrease from the previous number of 7.030 USD mn for 2015. South Africa ZA: Net Bilateral Aid Flows from Development Assistance Committee Donors: Finland data is updated yearly, averaging 5.300 USD mn from Dec 1993 (Median) to 2016, with 24 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 14.490 USD mn in 2008 and a record low of 0.220 USD mn in 1995. South Africa ZA: Net Bilateral Aid Flows from Development Assistance Committee Donors: Finland data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s South Africa – Table ZA.World Bank.WDI: Defense and Official Development Assistance. Net bilateral aid flows from DAC donors are the net disbursements of official development assistance (ODA) or official aid from the members of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC). Net disbursements are gross disbursements of grants and loans minus repayments of principal on earlier loans. ODA consists of loans made on concessional terms (with a grant element of at least 25 percent, calculated at a rate of discount of 10 percent) and grants made to promote economic development and welfare in countries and territories in the DAC list of ODA recipients. Official aid refers to aid flows from official donors to countries and territories in part II of the DAC list of recipients: more advanced countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the countries of the former Soviet Union, and certain advanced developing countries and territories. Official aid is provided under terms and conditions similar to those for ODA. Part II of the DAC List was abolished in 2005. The collection of data on official aid and other resource flows to Part II countries ended with 2004 data. DAC members are Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, and European Union Institutions. Regional aggregates include data for economies not specified elsewhere. World and income group totals include aid not allocated by country or region. Data are in current U.S. dollars.; ; Development Assistance Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Geographical Distribution of Financial Flows to Developing Countries, Development Co-operation Report, and International Development Statistics database. Data are available online at: www.oecd.org/dac/stats/idsonline.; Sum;

Information on development assistance financed through the EU budget in Africa (regional). The Directorate-General for International Partnerships is responsible for formulating the EU’s international partnership and development policy, with the ultimate goal to reduce poverty, ensure sustainable development, and promote democracy, human rights, and the rule of law across the world. Its main purpose is to implement most of the European Commission’s external assistance, through instruments such as the the Neighborhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI). This vital task requires DG INTPA to deliver the EU’s development assistance budget in an open and accountable fashion. For this reason, it publishes its data in the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) Registry since 2011.

Replication Data for: Foreign Aid and Soft Power: Great Power Competition in Africa in the Early 21st Century See "readme.pdf" for description of the code and datasets.

The 1.1 version of AidData's Chinese Official Finance to Africa dataset tracks 1,955 development finance activities in Africa from 2000 to 2012. The data includes both Chinese aid and non-concessional official financing.

In the financial year 2023, Australia's development assistance in Sub-Saharan Africa was primarily allocated to the humanitarian sector, which received ** percent of the aid. In contrast, economic infrustructure and services sector received only *** percent of the aid.