Official Development Assistance: Programme Allocations 2024-25
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The Minister for Development (Anneliese Dodds)
The FCDO annual report and accounts 2023-24, published in July 2024, set out that the FCDO would provide updates in due course on its 2024-25 official development assistance spending plans. FCDO ODA (£000) Regional programmes Africa 1,545,073 Democratic Republic of the Congo 107,471 Ethiopia 216,900 Ghana and Liberia 16,125 Kenya 79,126 Malawi 50,388 Mozambique 49,207 Nigeria 116,972 Other African countries1 1,753 Africa Programmes and Expertise Department 138,184 Rwanda 31,238 Sahel, Sudan and South Sudan Department2 102,100 Sierra Leone 29,805 Somalia 142,645 South Africa 14,033 South Sudan 134,125 Sudan 140,315 Tanzania 55,963 Uganda 45,681 Zambia 41,715 Zimbabwe 31,327 Americas 85,955 Brazil 87 Caribbean Development Team 84,000 Colombia 1,295 Other American countries3 573 Overseas Territories 97,633 Overseas Territories 97,633 Europe 31,900 Turkey 18,900 Western Balkans 13,000 Eastern Europe and Central Asia 264,056 Central Asia4 12,686 Eastern neighbourhood5 14,330 Other eastern European and central Asian countries6 290 Ukraine 236,750 Indo Pacific 279,718 Bangladesh 61,200 India 2,000 Indo Pacific Regional Team 43,780 Indonesia 44,771 Myanmar 65,041 Nepal 60,138 Other South Asia Countries7 195 Other South East Asia and Pacific Countries8 2,593 Middle East and North Africa 852,545 Afghanistan 171,000 Egypt 4,000 Iraq 5,175 Jordan 68,000 Lebanon 56,075 Middle East and North Africa regional team 31,000 Occupied Palestinian Territories 129,000 Pakistan 98,753 Syria 145,542 Yemen 144,000 Regional Programmes Total 3,156,880 Policy priorities, international organisations and humanitarian British investment partnerships 1,147,195 Centre for Delivery 697 Development and open societies 76,328 Trade and economic security 14,426 Economics and evaluation 8,902 Education, gender and equality 499,423 Energy, climate and environment 433,304 Europe 389,000 Health 980,736 Humanitarian, migration and food security 307,436 International finance 999,126 Multilateral and human rights 13,945 Office for Conflict, Stabilisation and Mediation 22,000 Research and evidence 499,356 Policy priorities, international organisations and humanitarian total 5,391,874 Non-departmental public bodies and scholarships total 224,300 BBC World Service total 76,900 Multilateral subscriptions to international organisations total 84,029 Other central programmes total 35,362 Crisis reserve total9 15,000 Integrated Security Fund (ISF) total10 316,135 Total 9,300,480
ODA is central for delivering the Government’s mission to help create a world free from poverty on a liveable planet, working in a modern, genuine partnership with the global south. FCDO’s ODA spending will be used to achieve better development outcomes as part of a coherent international approach, with a strong focus on poverty reduction and accelerating progress on the sustainable development goals. Our approach to development will deliver inclusive growth, tackle the climate crisis and address irregular migration.
Plans to reduce asylum costs are creating more space in the ODA budget to spend on our international development priorities overseas. This is reflected in the FCDO’s ODA programme budget for 2024-25 and 2025-26.
My right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary and I are determined that the FCDO’s ODA spending will reach those who need it most, listening to our partners, and focusing on where the UK can have the biggest impact, delivering value for money for the British taxpayer.
Since coming into office, the Foreign Secretary and I have reviewed the FCDO’s ODA plans for the current financial year, 2024-25. Our objective has been to prioritise predictability and stability in budgets after years of turbulence under the previous Government. We have therefore not reduced planned budgets except in relatively few areas where circumstances meant teams were unable to deliver their full budgets, or where some reprioritisation has been required to respond to changes in operating context. With these exceptions, reductions from previously published spending plans identified in the data below are a result of the previous Government’s decisions.
Instead, our focus has been on ensuring any reallocations or increases in spending needed to meet the Government’s commitment to spend 0.5% of GNI on ODA each calendar year have been targeted effectively. For example, we have delivered a major increase of £113m in humanitarian funding for people in Sudan and those who have fled to neighbouring countries, doubling our commitment to Sudan and the region this year.
I would now like to update the House on our indicative 2024-25 ODA spending plans. Due to the dynamic nature of the FCDO’s global work, programme plans are continually reviewed and adjusted in-year. Final out- turn data and future planned allocations will be published in the 2024-25 FCDO annual report and accounts in summer 2025.
1. Other African countries includes Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Chad, Cote d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Eritrea, Eswatini, Guinea, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Namibia, Niger, Senegal, Seychelles, and the Gambia.
2. Included in Sahel, Sudan and South Sudan Department are the regional programmes—allocated separately to the country allocations: Sudan; South Sudan.
3. Other American countries includes Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Latin America Department, Network Ops, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, and Uruguay.
4. Central Asia includes Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.
5. Eastern neighbourhood includes Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova.
6. Other eastern European and central Asian countries includes Belarus and regional spend which cannot be attributed to a single country.
7. Other south Asia Countries includes Maldives and Sri Lanka.
8. Other south-east Asia and Pacific countries includes Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, Fiji, Laos, Malaysia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Thailand, Tonga, Vietnam and Vanuatu.
9. The crisis reserve for 2024-25 was set at £50 million with £35 million allocated out to the approved countries in-year.
10. From April 2024, CSSF was renamed to the UK Integrated Security Fund (ISF). ISF spend by regional, cross regional and non-discretionary theme is reported in the ISF annual report.
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