AIDWATCH 2017EU AID UNCOVERED

HOW TO REACH THE TARGET ON TIMEFebruary 2018

The Report

Real aid

• The scale of aid inflation: 43% increase since 2015 • Spending on refugees in the donor country: 43.77% increase since 2015

Genuine aid

EU28 Aid increased in 2016

Getting to 0.7%

Genuine aid

Leaving no one behind?

A new direction for EU aid

Looking forward

• Aid is for development first – above and before domestic political agendas.• Aid is most effective when developing countries are in the lead – this needs to be much more clearly reflected in EU development cooperation.• Important to safeguard EU ODA in the next MFF to finance the long term goals of Agenda 2030

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