Interactive: EuropeAid funding priorities 2019

Each year the European Commission’s development arm, DEVCO, releases Annual Action Programmes that include early details of future funding commitments. These AAP documents contain annexes — also known as “action fiches” — which describe the planned activities under a given program, and outline management procedures and indicative financial commitments for each one. Organizations use this early information to start pursuing opportunities of interest. Since 2017, Devex has been tracking AAPs and extracting the action fiches to present a granular breakdown of funding priorities by region, instrument, amount, and management organization. For BIA subscribers, this information can be easily explored through our interactive data visualization. Below is a summary of the action fiches that were published by DEVCO between December 2018 and July 2019. They relate both to funding that has already been allocated, and that which is yet to be. As the data is now tagged by the relevant Sustainable Development Goal, you can now use the interactive visualization to filter the data by SDG, or by your sectoral and geographical interests. It is worth noting that the budget figures in the action fiches are indicative rather than definitive. There can be slight discrepancies between the total funding amount indicated for the overall program and the sum of the amount committed to each planned activity within it. The dataset analyzed here accounts for €2.6 billion ($2.8 billion) in funding contributions for 60 programs, which reference 205 planned activities. Of this, 57.7% (€1.5 billion) has been committed by the EU, and the remainder by third-party organizations such as the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme, and the Food and Agriculture Organization. The EU’s Development Cooperation Instrument, or DCI, and European Development Fund, or EDF, are the main funding instruments through which it is being channeled. Support for the SDGs As each program is now tagged according to the relevant SDGs we can get an indicative idea of how much funding has been committed to supporting each goal. Goal 8 — achieving decent work and economic growth — looks set to receive the most funding at €1.7 billion, through 24 programs and 94 actions, the majority of which are under the DCI. Goal 5 supporting gender equality is next in line with €1.3 billion committed under 29 programs and 89 actions. Meanwhile, there are 26 programs and 91 actions worth €1.1 billion focused on goal 13 — taking urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts — for the most part under the DCI and The Global Climate Change Alliance Plus, or GCCA+. Goal 16 — peace, justice, and strong institutions — with €1.1 billion, and Goal 1 — an end to poverty — with €889.7 million are also in the top six for funding support. To explore commitments by SDG and region in more detail check out the interactive visualization. Financing instruments: DCI So far this year, the largest share of funding — €1.7 billion — has been committed under the DCI. The EU is contributing 64.7% (€1.01 billion) of this. Within the dataset analyzed, those programs yet to be procured for under the DCI are located in Asia. They include the Mindanao Peace and Development Programme in the Philippines, co-implemented by the World Bank, UNDP, GIZ, and the EU, which is to be allocated €180 million overall, €11 million of which will be disbursed via a grant. A program to reduce malnutrition in Laos led by UNICEF and the national government is set to receive €50 million, with €3.8 million being put through direct procurement. Within Central and South Asia, two countries are to receive a total of €63 million. A little under half will go toward a KfW co-funded and led program to construct Sebzor Hydropower plant in the Tajikistan border region with Afghanistan. The remainder has been directed to two programs in Pakistan: One supporting citizens’ access to justice, managed by U.N. agencies; and another being managed by the EU which aims to strengthen the public financial management system. Geographically, the majority of funding has been committed to South East and Central Asia, although a program to improve forest governance and reduce deforestation across Asia, West Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean that is co-implemented by UNDP, the Swedish International Development Agency, and the European Forest Institute, received the largest commitment of €235.4 million. Organizations that have already been shortlisted for a technical assistance component tendered for earlier this year can be seen here. The Global Public Goods and Challenges thematic program of the DCI contributed €62 million to the transition to green and circular economies within particular countries, delivered by the U.N. Multi-Partner Trust Fund and the UN Environment Programme. Additional funding has been directed toward peacebuilding and climate change adaptation and mitigation in the South East Asia region with programs in Myanmar, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka. The largest commitment is €110 million toward the EU Peace Support in Myanmar/Burma program. Funding worth €422 million has been allocated to 13 programs and 34 related actions in Central Asia that concentrate primarily on economic and institutional development, and education. The Global Climate Change Alliance Plus Within DCI, the primary focus of the GCCA+ is to increase the resilience of developing states and least developed countries to climate change. While the GCCA+ AAP for 2019 is not yet public, content from the 2018 AAP remains relevant due to its late publication last year. This funding data indicates that €27.5 million has been directed through the GCCA+ toward programs in Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Cuba, and Cote D’Ivoire, with 90% (€25 million) being contributed by the EU. The largest commitment of €9 million was allocated to a program in Djibouti aiming to support climate change adaptation while creating environmental, social, and economic value within the country. Cote d’Ivoire received €8.5 million for a program managed by GIZ that aims to reduce deforestation and emissions. The remaining two programs for the Domincan Republic and Cuba were allocated €5 million each under GIZ and UNDP management respectively and aim to build climate and disaster risk reduction resilience across the islands. Funding instruments: European Development Fund Under EDF, €578 million has been committed to seven programs across five countries — Uganda, Ghana, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, and Botswana — with 42% coming from EU contributions. Uganda received more than half of the funding at €308 million, 68% of this under the program to support its transition toward an inclusive, green and competitive low carbon economy. This is in line with the Uganda Green Growth Development Strategy co-financed and implemented by KfW, DANIDA, GIZ, FAO, UNOPs and a Ugandan organization, Adelphi. The remainder of funding was allocated to a program managed by the Royal Danish Embassy to support the Democratic Governance Facility which aims to empower citizens to engage in democratic governance and is co-funded by the EU, five EU member states — Austria, Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden — and Norway. Ghana received €153.4 million of support, including a €110 million contribution toward the African Investment Platform, which aims to boost renewable energy investment and is to be implemented by one of the development finance institutions. The other two programs focus on the promotion of domestic and foreign private investment and job creation (€40 million in EU contributions) and separately the support of projects that enhance EU cooperation within Ghana, via 10 activities worth €3.4 million. Technical assistance contracts worth €600,000 and €2 million respectively are forecast under both programs for public procurement in the coming months. In Papua New Guinea a program that aims to improve sustainable and inclusive economic development with a focus on women, youth and climate change managed by FAO, will receive €85.3 million with €700,000 to go through public procurement of evaluation and separate risk assessment. Programs in Timor-Leste and Botswana that concentrate on nutrition and technical and vocational education and training, TVET, have €31.2 million committed to them in total. Two of the TVET related activities in Botswana, worth €10.3million in total, will go through public procurement and the remaining €2.7 million will be managed by GIZ. Getting involved Programs are being directly and indirectly managed by the EU. Those directly managed will have open calls for certain activities that usually relate to technical assistance, communications, monitoring and evaluation, and less often program management services. The programs being indirectly managed are those to which funding has already been allocated to third party institutions to manage. Organizations with relevant expertise and experience that are interested in working on these programs usually approach the third party institution to assess whether there are partnering opportunities. To see programs directly and indirectly managed use the filter on the interactive visualization. Explore EuropeAid funding priorities: Filter commitments by SDG, sector and region with Devex’s interactive visualization, only for BIA members.