FOI/202500447983 · FOI · unclear
Scotland's Official Development Assistance spend: FOI release
Information requested
I have been contacted by a constituent regarding Scotland’s Official Development Assistance spend. I note from a SPICe briefing (attached) that between 2021 and 2023, a total of £4.85m was spent in countries ‘unspecified’. My constituent has asked for more information as to which countries are included in the ‘unspecified’ bracket.
Response
The “Developing countries, unspecified” has been used where the project/programme is eligible to be counted as Official Development Assistance (ODA) but cannot be attributed to a specific country/countries.
This is usually as a result of examples such as:
Core-funding to organisations in Scotland - e.g. Scotland’s International Development Alliance that benefit a number of countries. Funding for the Humanitarian Emergency Panel Secretariat, which supports the Scottish Government’s responses to varied humanitarian disasters across the global south. In 2023 for instance, the Humanitarian Emergency Fund supported responses to crises in South Sudan, Kenya, Pakistan, Malawi, Zambia and Ethiopia. Projects which create and gather research and evidence across several global south countries. Partner country funding. This funding has been allocated to the Scottish Government’s three African partner countries: Malawi, Zambia and Rwanda. Multi-country programme funding. Some initiatives support project work that benefits vulnerable communities in several global south countries.
A full list is provided in the table below which was used to calculate the figures for the Contribution to International Development Report in which you have referenced within your request.
Project Title Further Information ODA_2021_23 1325 Women in Conflict Fellowships Multi-Country Programme Funding £1,042,533 Scottish Government Climate Justice Resilience Fund Partnership Multi-Country Programme Funding £1,000,000 GAVI HPV Vaccine Programme Partner Country Programme Funding £712,000 Women’s Environment and Development Organisation Multi-Country Programme Funding £342,550 Climate Youth negotiator programme Multi-Country Programme Funding £205,854 Scotland’s Global Partnership for Knowledge and Expertise in Water and Climate Multi Country Programme funding. Including Malawi £131,386 Scotland's International Development Alliance Core Grant 2021 Core Funding £194,487 Scottish Fair Trade Forum Core Grant 2021 Core Funding £162,427 Scottish Fair Trade Forum Core Grant 2022 Core Funding £323,964 Scotland's International Development Alliance - Humanitarian Staffing Post Core Funding £75,000 International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) - National Framework on Loss and Damage Multi-country research projects £81,400 Loss and Damage Case studies (SEI) Multi-country research projects £74,964 Humanitarian Emergency Fund Secretariat 2021/22 Humanitarian Secretariat support £36,000 Humanitarian Emergency Fund Secretariat 2020/21 Humanitarian Secretariat support £32,230 Research to inform the development of a Peace Institute in Scotland Multi-Country Programme Funding £24,850 (Formerly NIDOS, renamed the Alliance) - Safeguarding and Effectiveness (Mentoring) Special Project Core Funding £19,199 Scotland's International Development Alliance Core Grant 2022 Core Funding £390,724 Scotland’s International Development Alliance - GHU Focus Groups Core Funding £1,360
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