Sentence examples for on official development from inspiring English sources

Last year the UK spent £8.5bn on on official development assistance (ODA), roughly £137 per head.

The EU spent €9.2bn (£8bn) on official development assistance last year.

These sums must be over and above current commitments on official development assistance.

The United States will spend about $450 billion this year on the military but only $15 billion on official development assistance.

The withholding is a real issue, and it certainly makes us look stupid around the world, but this is money actually spent on official development assistance.

Many developing country governments fear – with some justification – that the enthusiasm of some developed country governments for partnerships is a figleaf to cover their under-achievement on official development assistance (ODA) spending targets," he said.

The alignment efforts exhibited in the second period could be related to the Paris Declaration on the effectiveness of official development assistance and the institution of one UNDAF; the high level priority given to governance, equity and gender, and science and technology are examples of such.

The GESP and NDP were aligned to the 2005 Paris Declaration on the effectiveness of official development assistance.

As a consequence of the Paris Declaration on the effectiveness of official development assistance, the UNDAF has been instrumental across countries during the period 2007 2012 to streamline the intersectoral coordination and alignment of developmental efforts.

___________ Since 2000, Luxembourg is among the 5 countries that devote more than 0.7% of their gross national income (GNI) to official development aid, focusing on the fight against poverty.

The European Report on Development 2015, published on Monday, suggests that official development assistance (ODA) should be viewed as a catalyst rather than an end in itself as the world prepares to agree the sustainable development goals (SDGs).