Scotland's Official Development Assistance spend: FOI release

Information requested

I have been contacted by a constituent regarding Scotland’s Official Development Assistance spend. I note from a SPICe briefing (attached) that between 2021 and 2023, a total of £4.85m was spent in countries ‘unspecified’. My constituent has asked for more information as to which countries are included in the ‘unspecified’ bracket.

Response

The “Developing countries, unspecified” has been used where the project/programme is eligible to be counted as Official Development Assistance (ODA) but cannot be attributed to a specific country/countries.

This is usually as a result of examples such as:

• Core-funding to organisations in Scotland - e.g. Scotland’s International Development Alliance that benefit a number of countries.
• Funding for the Humanitarian Emergency Panel Secretariat, which supports the Scottish Government’s responses to varied humanitarian disasters across the global south. In 2023 for instance, the Humanitarian Emergency Fund supported responses to crises in South Sudan, Kenya, Pakistan, Malawi, Zambia and Ethiopia.
• Projects which create and gather research and evidence across several global south countries.
• Partner country funding. This funding has been allocated to the Scottish Government’s three African partner countries: Malawi, Zambia and Rwanda.
• Multi-country programme funding. Some initiatives support project work that benefits vulnerable communities in several global south countries.

A full list is provided in the table below which was used to calculate the figures for the Contribution to International Development Report in which you have referenced within your request.

Project Title	Further Information	ODA_2021_23
1325 Women in Conflict Fellowships	Multi-Country Programme Funding	£1,042,533
Scottish Government Climate Justice Resilience Fund Partnership	Multi-Country Programme Funding	£1,000,000
GAVI HPV Vaccine Programme	Partner Country Programme Funding	£712,000
Women’s Environment and Development Organisation	Multi-Country Programme Funding	£342,550
Climate Youth negotiator programme	Multi-Country Programme Funding	£205,854
Scotland’s Global Partnership for Knowledge and Expertise in Water and Climate	Multi Country Programme funding. Including Malawi	£131,386
Scotland's International Development Alliance Core Grant 2021	Core Funding	£194,487
Scottish Fair Trade Forum Core Grant 2021	Core Funding	£162,427
Scottish Fair Trade Forum Core Grant 2022	Core Funding	£323,964
Scotland's International Development Alliance - Humanitarian Staffing Post	Core Funding	£75,000
International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) - National Framework on Loss and Damage	Multi-country research projects	£81,400
Loss and Damage Case studies (SEI)	Multi-country research projects	£74,964
Humanitarian Emergency Fund Secretariat 2021/22	Humanitarian Secretariat support	£36,000
Humanitarian Emergency Fund Secretariat 2020/21	Humanitarian Secretariat support	£32,230
Research to inform the development of a Peace Institute in Scotland	Multi-Country Programme Funding	£24,850
(Formerly NIDOS, renamed the Alliance) - Safeguarding and Effectiveness (Mentoring) Special Project	Core Funding	£19,199
Scotland's International Development Alliance Core Grant 2022	Core Funding	£390,724
Scotland’s International Development Alliance - GHU Focus Groups	Core Funding	£1,360

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