The world’s second biggest provider of official development assistance is officially planning cuts.
Germany’s next centrist government announced its coalition contract on Wednesday. On page 134 of the 144-page agreement, the contract states that “due to the necessity to consolidate the budget, an appropriate reduction of the ODA-share has to happen.”
In a leaked draft from earlier this month, the center-left Social Democratic Party, or SPD, had called for maintaining ODA at the internationally encouraged goal of 0.7% of gross national income, while the center-right Christian Democratic Union, or CDU, proposed cuts. The final draft does not include this percentage goal.