The European Commission is one of the largest funders in international development. But where does it spend its aid?
The commission’s own publicly published data on its activities is not comprehensive, so to find out more, Devex turned to information from the International Aid Transparency Initiative, or IATI, which collects comprehensive data reported by different aid institutions.
We looked at projects reported by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Partnerships, or DG INTPA, with a cutoff date of the end of 2022. Because of how IATI data is recorded, our data set includes any project active at any point in 2022 — including some starting as far back as 2001 — and any project with a projected start date in 2022.