Little information is available on Argentina’s development assistance, in large part because the Argentinean government does not have an agency dedicated to implementing development projects or collecting aid data.

The most recent estimate of Argentinean bilateral aid levels comes from a study commissioned by the UNDP’s Special Unit for South-South Cooperation. The study estimates that Argentina’s bilateral development assistance disbursements were $748 million in 2007, representing a 34% increase over 2002 levels.

Most of Argentina’s bilateral development assistance is concentrated within Latin America, specifically among its immediate neighbours. The UNDP study calculates that 1% of Argentina’s bilateral aid goes to Africa (primarily Angola, Mozambique and Zimbabwe), suggesting that bilateral aid to the region was $7.5 million in 2007.

Most of Argentina’s aid is in the form of technical assistance and is focused on agriculture and food security, agro-processing, maternal and child health and human rights. In 1992 the Argentinean government established the Argentine Fund for Horizontal Cooperation (FO-AR) to focus on technical assistance and cooperation within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. FO-AR has financed more than 2,600 projects and has sent more than 4,000 experts to developing countries to provide technical assistance.