French Official Development Assistance
Official Development Assistance (ODA) are all financial flows aimed at promoting economic development and improving the welfare of developing countries by ensuring equal access to resources (drinking water, energy…) and to basic services (health, education, adequate housing…). France is the fourth largest donor, with total ODA amounting to 15.3 billion euros (0.56% of GNI) in 2022.
The key figures of official development assistance
France’s international cooperation and official development assistance policy
Through its programming Act on inclusive development and combating global inequalities, enacted on 4 August 2021, France has given itself the means to combat global inequalities more effectively and to invest in essential global public goods (climate, biodiversity, global health, education)to address the root causes of crises.
The Presidential Development Council (CPD), convened by the President of the French Republic on 5 May 2023, established ten priority political objectives for France's new Solidarity and Sustainable Investment policy which has four overarching objectives:1. Combating poverty, inequality and the consequences of climate change,to strengthen international stability and crisis prevention ;
2. Safeguarding global public goods, including climate and biodiversity ;
3. Promoting macroeconomic stability ;
4. Promoting France's interests, its influence and the defence of its values.
As a continuation of the Presidential Development Council, the Interministerial Committee for International Cooperation and Development (CICID) of July 2023, presided by the Prime Minister, adopted new guidelines to confirm France's ambitions in terms of international solidarity:
- Country strategies and results indicators for each of the ten priority objectives to improve monitoring;
- A 50% target for France's financial effort to be concentrated on Least Developed Countries (LDCs) from 2024 onwards, replacing the list of 19 priority countries, making aid more flexible to deploy and effective in supporting the countries that need it most;
- A better articulation between the fight against poverty and the fight against climate change;
- A €1 billion yearly target for humanitarian aid by 2025;
- A €1 billion yearly target for biodiversity by 2025 and a stabilised yearly target of €6 billion for climate finance;
- Improving private sector mobilisation;
- Deploying 500 international technical experts by 2027;
- Better coordination of aid instruments;
- Improving monitoring and evaluation.
We are determined to end poverty and hunger, in all their forms and dimensions, and to ensure that all human beings can fulfil their potential in dignity and equality and in a healthy environment.