While the U.K. is cutting its official development assistance, France is scaling up. Paris hit 0.53% of gross national income on ODA in 2020, up from 0.38% in 2016.
A new programming bill for development assistance is making its way through the French parliament, which would establish a trajectory towards the fabled 0.7% GNI/ODA target by 2025.
In a call for Devex Pro subscribers this week, Mae Kurkjian, acting director & senior advocacy manager at ONE France and Hervé Berville, a French MP and rapporteur on the bill, outlined the main changes.