Development Aid: Disability

(asked on 13th November 2023) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, with reference to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Assistance Committee handbook for data reporters and users, The OECD-DAC policy marker on the inclusion and empowerment of persons with disabilities, published in December 2020, how many projects in receipt of Official Development Assistance (ODA) from his Department scored a 2 according to that policy marker; and how much ODA his Department disbursed to those projects in each calendar year since 2018.


Answered by
Andrew Mitchell Portrait
Andrew Mitchell
Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) (Minister for Development)
This question was answered on 21st November 2023

The FCDO uses the OECD-DAC disability policy marker to indicate what level of disability-inclusive activities take place with each bilateral official development assistance (ODA) programme. A score of 1 indicates that at least some deliberate disability-inclusive activity is undertaken but disability inclusion is not the main purpose of the programme. A score of 2 indicates that addressing disability inclusion is the primary purpose of the programme.

The table below gives ODA spending and project numbers for DFID and FCO (from 2018 to 2020) and FCDO (2021 onwards). The counts in columns (b) and (e) are for individual projects as reported to the OECD-DAC.

Columns (a), (b) and (c) provides the amount of ODA disbursed and details of projects that scored 2 for the marker.

Column (e) and (f) provides the details on the number of ODA projects that scored 1 for the marker.

Column (d) provides the total amount of ODA disbursed in projects that scored 1 for the marker. No information is collected centrally on the amount of ODA that is disbursed solely for disability inclusive activities in projects scoring 1.

Bilateral ODA projects1 with a DAC disability policy marker = 2

Bilateral ODA projects1 with a DAC disability policy marker = 1

Department

Amount of spending (£ millions) (a)

Number of projects (b)

Proportion of all bilateral projects (c)

Amount of spending (£ millions)2 (d)

Number of projects (e)

Proportion of all bilateral projects (f)

2018

Department for International Development

6.7

12

0.5%

2,304,139

874

34.2%

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

0.0

0

N/A

0

0

N/A

Total

6.7

12

0.4%

2,304,139

874

26.9%

2019

Department for International Development

19.6

20

0.8%

2,751,165

881

35.9%

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

0.0

0

N/A

0

0

N/A

Total

19.6

20

0.7%

2,751,165

881

29.6%

2020

Department for International Development

22.4

17

0.7%

2,366,991

838

36.1%

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

0.0

0

N/A

42,438

124

N/A

Total

22.4

17

0.6%

2,409,429

962

32.8%

2021

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

16.2

15

0.5%

1,527,057

967

32.2%

20223

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

19.0

16

0.7%

1,527,146

837

35.4%

  • Project counts are based on the individual lines reported to OECD-DAC. In most cases, larger programmes will consist of a number of projects.
  • This is the total amount of ODA disbursed in these projects. Not all of this funding would have been used for disability-inclusive activities.
  • The figures for 2022 come from the Statistics on International Development (SID) data. All other years are based on OECD-DAC data. SID and OECD-DAC data report projects in a slightly different way. These figures may therefore change by a small amount once the 2022 OECD-DAC data are published.
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