The multilateral aid landscape is seeing a subtle, but significant, shift.
In 2013, the latest year for which detailed aid figures from the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development are available, core resources channeled to multilateral organizations amounted to $41 billion, while earmarked funding reached an all-time high of $18.2 billion.
But while core funding — contributions from donors that are not allocated for a specific purpose — still exceeds noncore resources, the rise of earmarked funding in the past decade has prompted a rethink of resource mobilization for many multilateral groups, which expect core contributions to further decline in the future.