OECD: 7.1 % decrease in official development aid

Stefano Lizshenski – Vatican City

In 2024, official development aid (AOD) was reduced by the rich countries by 7.1 %, which represents a reduction of more than $ 11,000 million, and mainly deprives the poorest countries – which afflicted wars, famines and the impact of climate chaos – the main resources to ensure basic commodities and services such as health, education and food security for hundreds of people from people.

Oxfam warning

Data of the Aid Committee for Development Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), which indicates the year 2024: “Global financing has gone from 0.37 % to 0.33 % in relation to the national income added to the countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development – Speakers explain Francesco Petrelli and political advisor in the financing of Oxfam Italy, and Oxford societies. Hunger – The betrayal of the rich countries and their promises to help and are on their way to the lack of respect for the acquired international obligations. ”

Millions of lives are in danger

It was signed on September 25, 2015 by the governments of one hundred and ninety member states of the United Nations and approved by the United Nations General Assembly. The agenda of 2030 for sustainable development consists of seventeen goals that must be achieved before 2030, including the allocation of 0.70 % of GDP for development cooperation.

“In the point where we are, the goal can be forgotten from 0.70 – Petrill says – because the problem today is how to manage the situation with this collapse of the resources that come in 2025. We are already facing a dramatic situation for some countries regarding closing clinics, interruption of vaccination courses for women and children, and with support for support to search for fighting against alternatives.”

Our weight

However, the numbers approved by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development indicate a decrease in official aid in 2024, but Oxfam also indicates that aid discounts for the most dangerous humanitarian emergencies will increase dramatically in 2025 due to the cancellation of the US Agency for International Development, the United States Agency for International Development. According to the first estimates of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the decrease in official global aid in the current year may range between 9 % and 17 % in 2026.

“Until now, the United States has been the largest donor in the world, covering about 30 % of general assistance for global development – Francesco Petrill adds – but the effects of canceling aid Al -Wakbat (the American Agency for International Development, in the first months of the administration of Termab, due to the fact that we can be in exchange for the foregoing, so that they will not be the effects of the destructive of millions of people, so that it can be caused by the goals and the need for the need.

Pomeran effect

You just have to think about the UNHCR recent alarm, the United Nations Refugee Agency, about the difficulty of helping the population fleeing conflicts in the Republic of the Congo or Sudan Democrats, which is currently living the most dangerous humanitarian crisis in the world and a refugee emergency that affects a large part of East Africa. For this year, for example, sixty -four million dollars has already been canceled for South Sudan and Chad. Two of the poorest countries in the world, hosting millions of Sudanese refugees.

“The presence or even the participation of this political vision to reduce aid – says Petrilli of Oxfam Italy – indicates the presence of dangerous nearsightedness by the richest countries, because it is exposed to the risk of generating a real short circle that inevitably reflects in Europe and in the entire global north.”