Last week, Devex analyzed disbursements data from the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development to produce rankings of the aid agency’s top private sector and NGO implementers.
But we wanted to know what other insights the data could offer. In this article, we look at what it can tell us about DFID’s work with multilateral development institutions and large foundations.
First, some aggregate figures: In 2017, DFID disbursed at least 9.175 billion British pounds ($12,685 billion) to approximately 1,365 recipients — the majority of them implementers of DFID programming. This is slightly different from the 2016 figures: 9.171 billion pounds to 1,646 recipients, reflecting a 17 percent reduction in the number of implementers.