However, only 1% of all overseas development assistance is allocated to family planning.
First, an increase in the percentage of official development assistance (ODA) allocated to data and statistics (Figure 3) which moved up from 0.25% in 2014 to 0.30% in 2015.
Similarly, the second ranked factor was "Assistance allocated directly to projects".
A large proportion of development assistance cannot be allocated to particular countries as it is provided at a global or regional level.
Table 1 is based on the assumption that international assistance is proportionally allocated to government and private expenditure, and that means that low income countries were allocating, in 2010, the equivalent of 1.5% of GDP to domestic public financing for health.
This approach means that development assistance is not allocated to sectors on the basis of the types of goods, services or outputs produced by a project, nor does it refer to the character of development that a project may influence, but instead reflects the institutional structure of the recipient's country health sector.
5. Assistance in eating meals – It was reported that there is not enough assistance available or time allocated to service users to eat meals.
In 2011, $6.2 billion of development assistance for health was allocated to fragile countries.
In an environment of budget-slashing austerity measures, funding allocated to development assistance is ripe, low-hanging fruit.
If 15% of that amount – the same percentage expected from the domestic budgets of low-income countries – were allocated to health assistance, it would make US$38 billion, in an open-ended manner.
94% of the PEACE IV programme resources will support social inclusion, combating poverty and labour mobility (the remaining resources will be allocated to technical assistance).
