The global total of international development funds was USD 204 B in 2022, which was a 13.6% increase from USD 186 B in 2021.
This increase was mainly attributed to increased spending on processing and hosting refugees within donor countries, which increased 14.4% from USD 12.8 B in 2021 to USD 29.3 B in 2022, as well as the significantly increase aid to Ukraine following Russia’s invasion and ongoing war, which totaled USD 16.1 B. If these "in-donor" refugee costs are excluded, Official Development Assistance (ODA) increased by only 4.6% in 2022.
While global ODA continues to increase, the pool of funds dedicated to "development", that is, excluding emergency and humanitarian assistance has continued to decline. Bilateral ODA to least developed countries (LDCs) and sub-Saharan Africa , in particular, for example, declined declined by 8% in 2022 from USD 32.18 B to 29.67 B.
Judicious use of development funds is therefore a present-day imperative for most development agencies as they seek to obtain the greatest and most sustainable social and environmental impact from the funds available.
Our International Development Agency Support clients are looking to maximise impact and sustainability, and to achieve the highest fund efficiency possible. This is what we work with them to pursue.
All over the world, development organizations are faced with unique circumstances relating to the level of control they are able to efficiently exercise over their projects, and the results they can achieve in the circumstances.
We work with development organizations to provide a complete suite of advisory services on which they can depend to achieve their objectives.
Our work in project assurance aims at the mitigation of risks that could impact development projects, as well the establishment of independent, collaborative project oversight in order to increase the level of confidence with which decisions are made.
By improving the quality, validity and reliability of the knowledge and information our clients use to make decisions, we secure project outcomes at every stage of the project life cycle.
There are known ways by which uncertainties that characterize the future can be reduced and their effect on human undertakings mitigated. The more comprehensive the knowledge on which plans are made, the greater the discipline with which they are executed, the greater the assurance you can have they will derive their intended outcome".
As a development agency, global charity or other aid organization, you may find it more efficient and cost-effective to engage a local contact in the areas you support various programmes to coordinate administrative tasks on your programmes, and to see to the accountable, efficient and transparent disbursement of funds. This is us.
Our grant administration and financial management support will save you costly office set-ups, travel, accommodation, tax and labour costs, the savings from which will obtain higher project efficiency.
We provide local presence for aid organizations, development partners and individual benefactors, on whose behalf we maintain close relationships with local communities, process aid-related transactions, provide financial management assistance and help with local regulatory and compliance requirements.
In addition to receiving scheduled reports on grant performance and on specific deliverables on the projects you support, you can further expect every assistance from us with your travel, accommodation and local movement to your projects at any time you may want to visit them.
Development organisations expect that their work will obtain long-term, self-sustaining benefits to the local communities they support.
Working with our People Performance Division, we develop various capacity development programmes tailored to address a range of performance requirements necessary for the optimization of results from development work. In particular, we have seen remarkable gains from funded projects with enhancement of the following areas, among others:
- Leadership, management and governance
- Project management, monitoring and evaluation
- Financial management and entrepreneurship
- Management of human resources
- Performance management
- Proposal writing and report writing
Our work in International Development Agency Support (IDAS) responds to the need in development circles for competent, reliable and professional local partners in the areas that international development agencies fund projects, and provide other forms of development assistance.
We forge partnerships with government and international development agencies, with whom we work to achieve specific development objectives in the local communities they support.
Depending on the specific assignment we will be working on, our engagement is based on clearly articulated and agreed upon mutual obligations, which form the basis of the work we do and the specific deliverables we are accountable for.
Government agencies, development agencies, and even individual sponsors make major contributions to the elimination of inequalities around the world; over time, they have made living more meaningful to disadvantaged communities and variously confronted threats to human existence across the world.
Our work with development organisations mitigates underperformance arising from various factors and helps to deliver tangible benefits.
Through our work and partnership with government agencies, development organisations and individual sponsors, development projects have reported significantly higher success rates, cost efficiency and mutual satisfaction of stakeholders.
