G8 Countries
Canada
Canada is off track to meet its ODA quantity commitment, despite the fact that a diminished baseline has weakened its overall commitment. In 2007 Canada reduced ODA to sub-Saharan Africa and, while plans for 2008 show improvement, they are not enough to be on track.
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France
France is currently off track on its commitment to increase ODA, despite moving its global goal of 0.7% ODA/GNI back from 2012 to 2015. France committed to spend the majority of increased ODA in sub-Saharan Africa but, even as its global ODA increased slightly in 2007, its assistance to the region decreased.
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Germany
Germany remains off track in 2007 despite posting significant increases in development assistance to sub-Saharan Africa. Additional welcome increases are planned for 2008, but in order to reach the 2010 target, these annual increases will need to grow.
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Italy
Italy's commitment is hugely ambitious but the country is hugely off track based on DATA's trajectory. Although good progress was made in 2007 to restore previous cuts in assistance to Africa and the 2008 pipeline reveals a solid increase, Italy needs to ensure that these are sustained increases and not one-time payments.
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Japan
Using 2004 constant prices Japan has fulfilled a very weak commitment to double bilateral ODA to sub-Saharan Africa from a 2003 baseline, but in 2007 it cut ODA to the region compared with 2006 levels and has also reduced global ODA in the past two years. MORE >
Russia
The Gleneagles commitment to increase development assistance to sub-Saharan Africa to $25 billion a year by 2010 did not include a Russian contribution. Although it is a chief donor to the republics of the former Soviet Union, Russia is not a member of the OECD or the Development Assistance Committee.
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United Kingdom
The UK has increased the volume of ODA to Africa more than any other G8 country and data is not yet available to assess where the UK has met its target for doubling bilateral ODA between fiscal years 2003/04 and 2007/08.
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United States
The US is currently off track on its ODA commitment as compared with a straight-line trajectory, but DATA estimates it has sufficient increases in the pipeline to fulfill its commitment
by 2010. The US has been a clear leader on HIV/AIDS and malaria and has made significant contributions to Africa's peace and security.
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