Ethiopia: Overseas Aid

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much aid his Department provided to Ethiopia (a) to each recipient and (b) through each distributing organisation in each of the last five years. (322316)

Details of aid provided to Ethiopia are published annually in “Statistics on International Development”, which is available at:

http://www.dfid.gov.uk/About-DFID/Finance-and-performance/Aid-Statistics/Statistics-on-International-Development-2009/

The amounts provided to each type of recipient are provided in the following table. The majority of aid received by the Government of Ethiopia is channelled through multilateral institutions such as the World Bank and United Nations.

*£ million*
		Of which:
Financial year	Total DFID bilateral aid to Ethiopia	Delivered to an NGO	Delivered to the Ethiopian Government
2004-05	62.364	3.476	58.89
2005-06	62.558	2.288	60.27
2006-07	90.496	2.529	87.97
2007-08	139.519	2.69	136.83
2008-09	165.521	3.6	161.92

The amount of this aid distributed through bilateral and multilateral channels is as follows.

*£ million*
		Of which:
Financial year	Total DFID bilateral aid to Ethiopia	Delivered through a multilateral
2004-05	62.364	9.78
2005-06	62.558	14.73
2006-07	90.496	83.88
2007-08	139.519	135.75
2008-09	165.521	159.99

Volume 507: debated on Monday 15 March 2010