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Germany: Projected ODA Grant Transfers according to Recent Budget Decisions of the Federal Government


This chart shows the evolution of Germany’s total volumes of real ODA transfers that would be made available in the form of grants when the budget decisions of the Federal Government adopted in March 2014 and March 2015 (benchmark figures or “Eckwerte” in German) materialise. The projection uses the distribution of incremental ODA volumes over the years as stated in official documents and assumes that the additional resources will be transferred to developing countries on a grant basis. The base level of ODA grant transfers in 2014 was calculated using the preliminary figures published by DAC/OECD in April 2015. In previous years these calculations had to be adjusted downward by considerable amounts on the basis of definitive data provided by DAC/OECD usually in December. The figure takes into account the fact that in recent years – except for 2011 – the balance of budgetary resources used for ODA loans was negative after deducting the repayments of principal and interest from new disbursements. This means that developing countries are practically paying a corresponding part of German development aid in the form of grants. Therefore, the balance if resulting negative needs to be subtracted from ODA grant transfers to determine the net value funded with own government resources. Note that the exact calculation of the balance of budgetary resources for lending requires project-level information that routinely is released together with definitive data on total ODA. For 2014 this figure was estimated on the basis of the proportions of budgetary resources in relation to total flows of ODA loans found for 2013.


A central issue here is the question whether these budget increases officially accounted for as development aid are truly additional in nature considering that according to available information a part shall be used for international financing of protection measures against climate change. It would clearly not be appropriate and fair to count the necessary support to confront this new threat as a component to reach the long established target of providing 0.7 % of GNI for human development. Funding to cover the enormous extra cost to confront climate change does not contribute to meet the pre-existing resource needs to fight poverty, hunger and disease.


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