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Non-Governmental Organisations: Overseas Aid

Volume 472: debated on Wednesday 27 February 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much aid was channelled through UK-based non-governmental organisations in each of the last five years, broken down by type of aid budget line; and what allocations have been made for 2007-08 on the same basis. (187163)

Total DFID expenditure channelled through UK Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in each of the last five years and planned expenditure for 2007-08 through the Civil Society Challenge Fund and Partnership Programme Agreements is set out in the following table. The table also includes planned funding in respect of the Development Awareness Fund and the Strategic Grant Agreement for 2007-08.

DFID also provides ad-hoc funding to agencies and CSOs working in country or at a regional level responding to specific emergencies. DFID’s Conflict, Humanitarian and Security Department (CHASE) estimate that in 2007-08 £8 million was spent on humanitarian relief across a range of natural disasters, from an earthquake in Peru to cyclones and floods in Bangladesh, India, Mexico, North Korea and. Pakistan, to winter shelter for extreme winter conditions in Kyrgyzstan. Of this, £5 million was provided through NGOs.

There is no central allocation of funding through CSOs for humanitarian assistance projects or other parts of the DFID programme.

Multilaterals also allocate funding to CSOs, among these are the European Commission, United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Because multilaterals do not report the proportion of their expenditure allocated to CSOs, DFID are unable to attribute multilateral expenditure to CSOs.

DFID expenditure through UK CSOs for 2002-03 to 2006-07 and planned expenditure for 2007-08

£000

Total

Civil Society Challenge Fund

Partnership Programme Agreement

Humanitarian Assistance

Country and other DRD Programme

2002-03 (actual)

222,845

13,056

57,227

93,822

58,739

2003-04 (actual)

220,321

10,355

59,000

86,689

64,277

2004-05 (actual)

232,930

10,106

65,263

91,187

66,374

2005-06 (actual)

260,952

13,260

81,650

95,254

70,788

2006-07 (actual)

274,309

13,539

89,141

85,423

86,207

2007-08 (planned)

14,280

90,191

14,200

1 Includes Development Awareness Fund and the Strategic Grant Agreement only

Final expenditure figures for 2007-08 will not be available until after the end of the fiscal year.