Countries
In 2010, development assistance to sub-Saharan Africa was the highest on record. However, the increases over the past five years still fell short of the commitments made in 2005, and the prospect of scaling up efforts to meet commitments beyond 2010 could be in jeopardy. Flatlining or even cuts from some donors threatens to undermine recent progress made in fighting HIV/AIDS and malaria, boosting agricultural productivity and sending children to school.
Over the past five years, some G7 countries showed tremendous leadership in meeting their commitments to sub-Saharan Africa by 2010 while others fell short. Collectively, the G7 delivered 61% of the increased development assistance they promised to sub-Saharan Africa by 2010. These increases were largely a result of the US, Japan and Canada surpassing their targets and the UK nearly meeting its very ambitious commitment. Three countries – Italy, Germany, and, to a lesser extent, France – were responsible for most of the G7’s $7 billion shortfall.
Other countries outside the G8 (such as EU members, Australia and South Korea) have made commitments to increase their development assistance as well. Emerging economies such as Brazil, India, China, Saudi Arabia and Russia have also been steadily increasing their development assistance to sub-Saharan Africa (because many of these countries do not report their development assistance data to the OECD-DAC, they are not measured alongside traditional donors in the DATA Report).
