What is happening with Development Aid?

0:00 Development Aid In 2025 1:02 What Is Development Aid? 1:40 The International Context of Development Aid 2:37 The Rise Of New DAC Donors 3:37 More Private Donors 4:06 More Earmarking Of Funds And Geopolitical Strategy 5:26 The Rise Of In-Donor Refugee Costs 7:07 2025 - Unprecedented Cuts To Development Aid 10:26 What Do You Think? References Bracho, G., Carey, R., Hynes, W., Klingebiel, S., & Trzeciak-Duval, A.(2021) Origins, evolution and future of global development cooperation: The role of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC).https://doi.org/10.23661/S104.2021 Chianca, T.(2008)The OECD/DAC Criteria for International Development Evaluations: An Assessment and Ideas for Improvement. Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 5(9), 41–51. https://doi.org/10.56645/jmde.v5i9.167 De La Concha, J.(2020)A Review of the DAC Evaluation Criteria: Upgrading Efficiency. Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation, 16(34), 44–55. https://doi.org/10.56645/jmde.v16i34.587 Kim, S., & Lightfoot, S.(2011) Does ‘DAC-Ability’ Really Matter? The emergence of non-DAC Donors: Introduction to Policy Arena. Journal of International Development, 23(5), 711–721. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.1795 Laub, K., Setiabudi, N., Dwyer, S., Barter, E., Smole, E., & Welch, Z. (2025) The Budget Cuts Tracker. Donor Tracker, Seek Development. https://donortracker.org/publications... Manning, R.(2008) The DAC as a central actor in development policy issues: Experiences over the past four years. https://nbn-resolving.org/ urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-193949 McQuinn, M.(2019) An Overview of Recent Trends in Official Development Assistance: Contradictory New Directions in the Relationship between DAC Donors and China. In Y. Zheng & J. Qian (Eds.), Development and Poverty Reduction: A Global Comparative Perspective (1st ed.). Routledge. OECD(2017) Development Co-operation Report 2017: Data for Development. OECD. OECD(2021) Applying Evaluation Criteria Thoughtfully. OECD. OECD(2024) Multilateral Development Finance 2024. OECD. https://doi.org/10.1787/8f1e2b9b-en OECD(2025) Cuts in official development assistance: OECD projections for 2025 and the near term (OECD Policy Briefs). https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/... Pichon, É., & Mácsai, G. (2025)Cuts in US development assistance (At a Glance). https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinkt... United Nations (2024) Financing for Sustainable Development Report 2024. International development cooperation in numbers. (Inter-Agency Task Force on Financing for Development: Financing for Development at a Crossroads). https://financing.desa.un.org/iatf/re... News Articles European Parliament(2025) At a Glance - Cuts in US development assistance. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinkt... Gedeon, J. (2025) Rubio says 83% of USAid programs terminated after six-week purge Attribution. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2... Knickmeyer, E., Lee, M., Sherman, M. (2025) Trump administration says it’s cutting 90% of USAID foreign aid contracts. AP News (via Politico). https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02... Lambert, J. (2025) NPR. Study: 14 million lives could be lost due to Trump aid cuts. https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-an... UNHCR. (2025) UNHCR: As funding cuts bite, some 11m people are losing aid. https://www.unhcr.org/uk/news/briefin... World Food Program. 2025 Food Security Impact of Reduction in WFP Funding. https://www.wfp.org/publications/food.... United Nations. (2025) UN migration agency forced to restructure amid significant budget cuts. https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/03/... Images G. Edward Johnson, Taping over of USAID Sign, 7 February 2025, CC BY 2.0. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... MySociety - TICTeC 2019: OECD in Paris, Rothschild's Château, at Château de la Muette, Paris in 2019, 20 March 2019, CC BY 2.0. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... OECD, Signing of the OECD Convention, 23 February 2009, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. https://www.flickr.com/photos/oecd/33... Videos OECD, From the OEEC to the OECD: 75 years of international co-operation, 17 April 2023.    • From the OEEC to the OECD: 75 years of int...   L1 Nieuws, Opvangprobleem asielzoekers, 22 January 2015.    • Opvangprobleem asielzoekers   ZDFheute Nachrichten, Fünf Jahre in Deutschland - Was wurde aus unbegleiteten Flüchtlingen?, 26 August 2020.    • Fünf Jahre in Deutschland - Was wurde aus ...