As the year draws to a close, Devex takes a look at the development-funding data we have collected over the course of 2019 to understand the trends. We also look at donors’ current pipelines to better understand what we can expect from them in 2020 and explain how you can use Devex’s early funding intelligence tools to find out more.
In 2019, we published over 40,000 development-funding opportunities from nearly 500 donors on our Funding Platform, including 36,000 tenders, 4,000 grants, and about 500 “open opportunities.” Our tenders publishing peaked at 3,730 opportunities in October, while grants publishing peaked at 555 opportunities in January.
The bulk of tender opportunities came from large, multilateral organizations — in 2019, half came from the United Nations institutions and the World Bank alone. They were followed by the regional multilaterals — the African Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, and Inter-American Development Bank. Most grants, on the other hand, came from the U.S. government’s health-focused institutions, including the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The top five donors, geographies, and sectors for tenders and grants we published in 2019 can be seen below.