Sentence examples for multilateral spending from inspiring English sources

The first signs of the Department for International Development's immediate priorities may come in the outcomes of the bilateral and multilateral spending reviews, which Greening told parliament should be released "in the early summer".

The bulk of UK bilateral aid flows through intermediaries such as NGOs, while spending through multilateral institutions has increased.

But it has been tight-lipped so far on agriculture - a sector in which women make up around 70% of the workforce in many parts of Africa – except to include the Food and Agriculture Organisation FAOO) and the International Fund for Agriculture and Development IFADD) in its review of spending on multilateral aid.

We analysed data from the 2008/9 financial year (FY) (the most recent and complete for both multilateral and bilateral sector spending) to base our assessment on ODA disbursements rather than projections, extracting data from DFID's management information system.

The development secretary, Andrew Mitchell, warned international organisations today that they could be stripped of their funding from Britain as he announced an immediate review of the annual £3bn spent on multilateral aid.

Health block grants come from the central government's internal revenues and are spent on personnel emoluments, other charges, and a development grant, whereas basket funds are finances that are contributed to the country by several bilateral and multilateral development partners and spent on other charges (24, 25).

The bulk of UK spending flows through multilateral institutions, NGOs and for-profit contractors.

It may be that this multilateral support for HPSR is either spent outside the country through contracting agencies in the North or is not spent in spite of being earmarked within development projects.

Even if all of the research funding available through multilateral agencies were to be disbursed and spent within developing countries (see below), actual spending would be 0.012%, that is 8 times below the stated norm of 0.1%.

Woolcott has, in his words, "spent years in the multilateral trenches" and knows that it can be "a slow-moving and frustrating business".

In FY 2008/9, the latest available data for both multilateral and bilateral sector disbursements, DFID spent £901 million on direct 'aid to health'.