{"id":1874530,"date":"2026-04-09T18:02:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1874530"},"modified":"2026-04-09T18:02:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:02:55","slug":"refugee-camps-in-kenya-feel-impact-of-donald-trumps-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1874530","title":{"rendered":"Refugee camps in Kenya feel impact of Donald Trump&#8217;s cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/static.dw.com\/image\/73817291_6.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article class=\"sk6xmai\">\n<div class=\"content-area sa7l9jt s9mg977\">\n<section data-tracking-name=\"sharing-icons-inline\" class=\"c75t7t0 hh5424a in-line closed\">\n<div class=\"copy-button-wrapper closed\"><span class=\"svdcmki\">https:\/\/p.dw.com\/p\/5Bw5u<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<figure class=\"s4bcs45\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.dw.com\/image\/73817291_800.webp 50w, https:\/\/static.dw.com\/image\/73817291_801.webp 129w, https:\/\/static.dw.com\/image\/73817291_802.webp 352w, https:\/\/static.dw.com\/image\/73817291_803.webp 575w\" media=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 575px)\" height=\"100\" width=\"100\" \/><figcaption class=\"c1oedowi lofg86o m4xla6a s16w0xvi rcjjkz7 w128axg5 b1fzgn0z\">Expressed as a share of its overall economic clout, the US is now the least generous aid provider in the 34-member Development Assistance Commitee, according to OECD data<small class=\"copyright c19ed66t ihwmx5 idu7i8u lxmvniw icns9en rcjjkz7 w128axg5 b1fzgn0z\">Image: Luis Tato\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div data-tracking-skip=\"true\" data-tracking-name=\"rich-text\" class=\"c17j8gzx rc0m0op r1ebneao s198y7xq rich-text l1evdo4u blt0baw s16w0xvi rcjjkz7 w128axg5 b1fzgn0z\">\n<p>International development aid fell by 23% in real terms in 2025 to the lowest levels since 2015, the <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/oecd-organization-for-economic-cooperation-and-development\/t-17437710\">Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)<\/a> said on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary data pointed to the largest dip in donations from members and associates of the\u00a0Development Assistance Committee (DAC) since records began.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For the first time on record, all five of the top international providers reduced their input.<\/p>\n<p>The reduction was spearheaded by\u00a0<a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/trump-cuts-billions-more-in-approved-us-foreign-aid\/a-73817138\">the world&#8217;s richest country, the US, slashing its official development assistance spending by 56.9%<\/a>, leaving <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/germany\/t-17871182\">Germany<\/a> as the world&#8217;s largest donor by default, even as it missed its own targets for international aid once again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"vjs-wrapper embed big\">\n<h2 aria-label=\"Embedded video \u2014 Refugee camps in Kenya feel impact of Donald Trump's cuts\" class=\"headline\">Refugee camps in Kenya feel impact of Donald Trump&#8217;s cuts<\/h2>\n<p><video id=\"video-73238115\" controls playsinline preload=\"none\" poster=\"image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mNkYAAAAAYAAjCB0C8AAAAASUVORK5CYII=\" data-id=\"73238115\" data-posterurl=\"https:\/\/static.dw.com\/image\/73238006_605.webp\" data-duration=\"03:17\"><source src=\"https:\/\/hlsvod.dw.com\/i\/dwtv_video\/flv\/je\/je20250711_QCUTS09E_,AVC_480x270,AVC_512x288,AVC_640x360,AVC_960x540,AVC_1280x720,AVC_1920x1080,.mp4.csmil\/master.m3u8\" type=\"application\/x-mpegURL\" \/><\/video><\/div>\n<h2>US now the least generous donor relative to economic clout\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>Some of the core statistics on official development aid spending from the 34 DAC members and other major countries were as follows:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Total ODA spending from the 34 members stood at $174.3 billion (roughly \u20ac148 billion)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>That equates to just 0.26% of these countries&#8217; gross national income (GNI)<\/li>\n<li>Only four countries\u00a0\u2014 Denmark, Luxembourg, Norway and Sweden\u00a0\u2014 met the UN target of spending 0.7% of GNI on aid<\/li>\n<li>All five of the top donors\u00a0\u2014 Germany, the US, the UK, Japan and France\u00a0\u2014 reduced their contributions in 2025<\/li>\n<li>Together, these countries accounted for 95.7% of the overall reduction<\/li>\n<li>The <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/united-states-of-america\/t-19065189\">US<\/a> alone drove three-quarters of the overall decline as <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/us-president-donald-trump-russia-ukraine-israel-gaza-tariffs-trade-war\/t-19434433\">Donald Trump<\/a> took a hatchet to USAID on his return to the White House<\/li>\n<li>Washington&#8217;s 56.9% reduction in aid spending was the largest by any country on record<\/li>\n<li>This makes the US now the least generous donor as a share of the size of its economy in the entire DAC, donating 0.09% of GNI<\/li>\n<li>Average donations across members equated to 0.26% of GNI, barely one-third of the UN target<\/li>\n<li>Other bilateral aid providers outside the DAC\u00a0\u2014 particularly Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar\u00a0\u2014 are becoming increasingly meaningful donors as European and US input declines<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"vjs-wrapper embed big\">\n<h2 aria-label=\"Embedded video \u2014 What does the USAID pullback mean for young Africans?\" class=\"headline\">What does the USAID pullback mean for young Africans?<\/h2>\n<p><video id=\"video-72609192\" controls playsinline preload=\"none\" poster=\"image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mNkYAAAAAYAAjCB0C8AAAAASUVORK5CYII=\" data-id=\"72609192\" data-posterurl=\"https:\/\/static.dw.com\/image\/72608953_605.webp\" data-duration=\"26:03\"><source src=\"https:\/\/hlsvod.dw.com\/i\/dwtv_video\/flv\/per\/per20250521_77PercentGesamtHD_,AVC_480x270,AVC_512x288,AVC_640x360,AVC_960x540,AVC_1280x720,AVC_1920x1080,.mp4.csmil\/master.m3u8\" type=\"application\/x-mpegURL\" \/><\/video><\/div>\n<h2>What did the OECD say about the reductions?\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s deeply concerning to see this huge drop in ODA in 2025, due to dramatic cuts among the very top donors,&#8221;\u00a0OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann said. &#8220;In this challenging environment, the significant decline in official development assistance highlights the need to maximise the impact of available resources, and to use them more effectively to unlock new sources of investment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Carsten Staur, the chair of the \u200bOECD assistance committee told a news briefing on Thursday that &#8220;the message is extremely sombre.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The organization also forecasts a further, if more modest, decline of 5.8% in real terms in 2026. It said the atmosphere of sharp and continuing declines presented an &#8220;enormous shock to the system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"vjs-wrapper embed big\">\n<h2 aria-label=\"Embedded video \u2014 What the end of USAID means \u2014 Global Us\" class=\"headline\">What the end of USAID means \u2014 Global Us<\/h2>\n<p><video id=\"video-73248313\" controls playsinline preload=\"none\" poster=\"image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mNkYAAAAAYAAjCB0C8AAAAASUVORK5CYII=\" data-id=\"73248313\" data-posterurl=\"https:\/\/static.dw.com\/image\/65606691_605.webp\" data-duration=\"26:04\"><source src=\"https:\/\/hlsvod.dw.com\/i\/dwtv_video\/flv\/gle\/gle250714_gesamt_,AVC_480x270,AVC_512x288,AVC_640x360,AVC_960x540,AVC_1280x720,AVC_1920x1080,.mp4.csmil\/master.m3u8\" type=\"application\/x-mpegURL\" \/><\/video><\/div>\n<h2>Germany again misses spending target, but nevertheless becomes largest overall donor amid US cuts<\/h2>\n<p>Germany&#8217;s ODA contributions shrank from 0.68% of GNI in 2024 to 0.56%, at a total of $29.09 billion. If you exclude refugee assistance funding spent inside Germany, that figure falls further to 0.46%, based on Development Ministry\u00a0figures.<\/p>\n<p>Yet still Germany\u00a0became the largest overall donor in the world for the first time in history as the US, with an economy roughly six times the size of Germany&#8217;s, slashed its spending.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The US remains the second largest donor in overall terms, with EU institutions next in line and the UK a fairly distant fourth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Aid organizations criticized the government in Berlin while\u00a0security expert Philipp Rotmann at the Global Public Policy Institute\u00a0said the reductions were &#8220;not in Germany&#8217;s security interests&#8221; given the &#8220;deadly gap&#8221; left by the US pullout, from which Russia and China would seek to profit geopolitically.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The world&#8217;s on fire and Germany continues to cut,&#8221; Oxfam Germany chairwoman Charlotte Becker said, saying the reductions had life-threatening consequences.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Church charities like Brot f\u00fcr die Welt, Misereor, Caritas International and Diakonie issued a joint statement decrying a &#8220;dangerous downward spiral&#8221; in spending.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"vjs-wrapper embed big\">\n<h2 aria-label=\"Embedded video \u2014 Kofler: German aid can't fill gap left by US cuts\" class=\"headline\">Kofler: German aid can&#8217;t fill gap left by US cuts<\/h2>\n<p><video id=\"video-73866664\" controls playsinline preload=\"none\" poster=\"image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mNkYAAAAAYAAjCB0C8AAAAASUVORK5CYII=\" data-id=\"73866664\" data-posterurl=\"https:\/\/static.dw.com\/image\/71520245_605.webp\" data-duration=\"05:03\"><source src=\"https:\/\/hlsvod.dw.com\/i\/dwtv_video\/flv\/je\/je20250903_Brussels1015C_,AVC_480x270,AVC_512x288,AVC_640x360,AVC_960x540,AVC_1280x720,AVC_1920x1080,.mp4.csmil\/master.m3u8\" type=\"application\/x-mpegURL\" \/><\/video><\/div>\n<h2>Ukraine aid rises thanks to EU input, dominates overall outlay<\/h2>\n<p>Net bilateral aid to wartorn Ukraine from DAV members fell by 38.2% last year, according to OECD figures. This was driven by a sharp US dip as Trump returned to the White House, even as 23 countries increased bilateral contributions.<\/p>\n<p>However, because of new support via EU institutions in Brussels rather than member states, overall donations to Ukraine totaled $44.9 billion, an 18.7% increase on 2024 that bucked the overall trend and &#8220;the largest volume of net ODA to any single recipient in any year on record,&#8221; the OECD said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This amount was larger than DAC members&#8217; combined bilateral ODA to all less developed countries ($28.1 billion) and all countries in sub-Saharan Africa ($29.2 billion),&#8221; it said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The reduction in donations was most sharp in bilateral development assistance, falling 26.4%. Multilateral ODA spending levels fell by 12.7%. The volume of bilateral development grants fell much more sharply (down 29.3%) than bilateral spending on loans (down 10.3%).<\/p>\n<p><em>Edited by: Alex Berry<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div data-tracking-skip=\"true\" data-tracking-name=\"rich-text\" class=\"c17j8gzx rc0m0op r1ebneao s198y7xq rich-text l1evdo4u blt0baw s16w0xvi rcjjkz7 w128axg5 b1fzgn0z\">\n<p>International development aid fell by 23% in real terms in 2025 to the lowest levels since 2015, the <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/oecd-organization-for-economic-cooperation-and-development\/t-17437710\">Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)<\/a> said on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary data pointed to the largest dip in donations from members and associates of the\u00a0Development Assistance Committee (DAC) since records began.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For the first time on record, all five of the top international providers reduced their input.<\/p>\n<p>The reduction was spearheaded by\u00a0<a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/trump-cuts-billions-more-in-approved-us-foreign-aid\/a-73817138\">the world&#8217;s richest country, the US, slashing its official development assistance spending by 56.9%<\/a>, leaving <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/germany\/t-17871182\">Germany<\/a> as the world&#8217;s largest donor by default, even as it missed its own targets for international aid once again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"vjs-wrapper embed big\">\n<h2 aria-label=\"Embedded video \u2014 Refugee camps in Kenya feel impact of Donald Trump's cuts\" class=\"headline\">Refugee camps in Kenya feel impact of Donald Trump&#8217;s cuts<\/h2>\n<p><video id=\"video-73238115\" controls playsinline preload=\"none\" poster=\"image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mNkYAAAAAYAAjCB0C8AAAAASUVORK5CYII=\" data-id=\"73238115\" data-posterurl=\"https:\/\/static.dw.com\/image\/73238006_605.webp\" data-duration=\"03:17\"><source src=\"https:\/\/hlsvod.dw.com\/i\/dwtv_video\/flv\/je\/je20250711_QCUTS09E_,AVC_480x270,AVC_512x288,AVC_640x360,AVC_960x540,AVC_1280x720,AVC_1920x1080,.mp4.csmil\/master.m3u8\" type=\"application\/x-mpegURL\" \/><\/video><\/div>\n<h2>US now the least generous donor relative to economic clout\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>Some of the core statistics on official development aid spending from the 34 DAC members and other major countries were as follows:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Total ODA spending from the 34 members stood at $174.3 billion (roughly \u20ac148 billion)\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>That equates to just 0.26% of these countries&#8217; gross national income (GNI)<\/li>\n<li>Only four countries\u00a0\u2014 Denmark, Luxembourg, Norway and Sweden\u00a0\u2014 met the UN target of spending 0.7% of GNI on aid<\/li>\n<li>All five of the top donors\u00a0\u2014 Germany, the US, the UK, Japan and France\u00a0\u2014 reduced their contributions in 2025<\/li>\n<li>Together, these countries accounted for 95.7% of the overall reduction<\/li>\n<li>The <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/united-states-of-america\/t-19065189\">US<\/a> alone drove three-quarters of the overall decline as <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/us-president-donald-trump-russia-ukraine-israel-gaza-tariffs-trade-war\/t-19434433\">Donald Trump<\/a> took a hatchet to USAID on his return to the White House<\/li>\n<li>Washington&#8217;s 56.9% reduction in aid spending was the largest by any country on record<\/li>\n<li>This makes the US now the least generous donor as a share of the size of its economy in the entire DAC, donating 0.09% of GNI<\/li>\n<li>Average donations across members equated to 0.26% of GNI, barely one-third of the UN target<\/li>\n<li>Other bilateral aid providers outside the DAC\u00a0\u2014 particularly Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar\u00a0\u2014 are becoming increasingly meaningful donors as European and US input declines<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"vjs-wrapper embed big\">\n<h2 aria-label=\"Embedded video \u2014 What does the USAID pullback mean for young Africans?\" class=\"headline\">What does the USAID pullback mean for young Africans?<\/h2>\n<p><video id=\"video-72609192\" controls playsinline preload=\"none\" poster=\"image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mNkYAAAAAYAAjCB0C8AAAAASUVORK5CYII=\" data-id=\"72609192\" data-posterurl=\"https:\/\/static.dw.com\/image\/72608953_605.webp\" data-duration=\"26:03\"><source src=\"https:\/\/hlsvod.dw.com\/i\/dwtv_video\/flv\/per\/per20250521_77PercentGesamtHD_,AVC_480x270,AVC_512x288,AVC_640x360,AVC_960x540,AVC_1280x720,AVC_1920x1080,.mp4.csmil\/master.m3u8\" type=\"application\/x-mpegURL\" \/><\/video><\/div>\n<h2>What did the OECD say about the reductions?\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s deeply concerning to see this huge drop in ODA in 2025, due to dramatic cuts among the very top donors,&#8221;\u00a0OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann said. &#8220;In this challenging environment, the significant decline in official development assistance highlights the need to maximise the impact of available resources, and to use them more effectively to unlock new sources of investment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Carsten Staur, the chair of the \u200bOECD assistance committee told a news briefing on Thursday that &#8220;the message is extremely sombre.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The organization also forecasts a further, if more modest, decline of 5.8% in real terms in 2026. It said the atmosphere of sharp and continuing declines presented an &#8220;enormous shock to the system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"vjs-wrapper embed big\">\n<h2 aria-label=\"Embedded video \u2014 What the end of USAID means \u2014 Global Us\" class=\"headline\">What the end of USAID means \u2014 Global Us<\/h2>\n<p><video id=\"video-73248313\" controls playsinline preload=\"none\" poster=\"image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mNkYAAAAAYAAjCB0C8AAAAASUVORK5CYII=\" data-id=\"73248313\" data-posterurl=\"https:\/\/static.dw.com\/image\/65606691_605.webp\" data-duration=\"26:04\"><source src=\"https:\/\/hlsvod.dw.com\/i\/dwtv_video\/flv\/gle\/gle250714_gesamt_,AVC_480x270,AVC_512x288,AVC_640x360,AVC_960x540,AVC_1280x720,AVC_1920x1080,.mp4.csmil\/master.m3u8\" type=\"application\/x-mpegURL\" \/><\/video><\/div>\n<h2>Germany again misses spending target, but nevertheless becomes largest overall donor amid US cuts<\/h2>\n<p>Germany&#8217;s ODA contributions shrank from 0.68% of GNI in 2024 to 0.56%, at a total of $29.09 billion. If you exclude refugee assistance funding spent inside Germany, that figure falls further to 0.46%, based on Development Ministry\u00a0figures.<\/p>\n<p>Yet still Germany\u00a0became the largest overall donor in the world for the first time in history as the US, with an economy roughly six times the size of Germany&#8217;s, slashed its spending.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The US remains the second largest donor in overall terms, with EU institutions next in line and the UK a fairly distant fourth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Aid organizations criticized the government in Berlin while\u00a0security expert Philipp Rotmann at the Global Public Policy Institute\u00a0said the reductions were &#8220;not in Germany&#8217;s security interests&#8221; given the &#8220;deadly gap&#8221; left by the US pullout, from which Russia and China would seek to profit geopolitically.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The world&#8217;s on fire and Germany continues to cut,&#8221; Oxfam Germany chairwoman Charlotte Becker said, saying the reductions had life-threatening consequences.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Church charities like Brot f\u00fcr die Welt, Misereor, Caritas International and Diakonie issued a joint statement decrying a &#8220;dangerous downward spiral&#8221; in spending.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"vjs-wrapper embed big\">\n<h2 aria-label=\"Embedded video \u2014 Kofler: German aid can't fill gap left by US cuts\" class=\"headline\">Kofler: German aid can&#8217;t fill gap left by US cuts<\/h2>\n<p><video id=\"video-73866664\" controls playsinline preload=\"none\" poster=\"image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mNkYAAAAAYAAjCB0C8AAAAASUVORK5CYII=\" data-id=\"73866664\" data-posterurl=\"https:\/\/static.dw.com\/image\/71520245_605.webp\" data-duration=\"05:03\"><source src=\"https:\/\/hlsvod.dw.com\/i\/dwtv_video\/flv\/je\/je20250903_Brussels1015C_,AVC_480x270,AVC_512x288,AVC_640x360,AVC_960x540,AVC_1280x720,AVC_1920x1080,.mp4.csmil\/master.m3u8\" type=\"application\/x-mpegURL\" \/><\/video><\/div>\n<h2>Ukraine aid rises thanks to EU input, dominates overall outlay<\/h2>\n<p>Net bilateral aid to wartorn Ukraine from DAV members fell by 38.2% last year, according to OECD figures. This was driven by a sharp US dip as Trump returned to the White House, even as 23 countries increased bilateral contributions.<\/p>\n<p>However, because of new support via EU institutions in Brussels rather than member states, overall donations to Ukraine totaled $44.9 billion, an 18.7% increase on 2024 that bucked the overall trend and &#8220;the largest volume of net ODA to any single recipient in any year on record,&#8221; the OECD said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This amount was larger than DAC members&#8217; combined bilateral ODA to all less developed countries ($28.1 billion) and all countries in sub-Saharan Africa ($29.2 billion),&#8221; it said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The reduction in donations was most sharp in bilateral development assistance, falling 26.4%. Multilateral ODA spending levels fell by 12.7%. The volume of bilateral development grants fell much more sharply (down 29.3%) than bilateral spending on loans (down 10.3%).<\/p>\n<p><em>Edited by: Alex Berry<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>International development aid fell by 23% in real terms in 2025 to the lowest levels since 2015, the <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/oecd-organization-for-economic-cooperation-and-development\/t-17437710\">Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)<\/a> said on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary data pointed to the largest dip in donations from members and associates of the\u00a0Development Assistance Committee (DAC) since records began.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For the first time on record, all five of the top international providers reduced their input.<\/p>\n<p>The reduction was spearheaded by\u00a0<a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/trump-cuts-billions-more-in-approved-us-foreign-aid\/a-73817138\">the world&#8217;s richest country, the US, slashing its official development assistance spending by 56.9%<\/a>, leaving <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/germany\/t-17871182\">Germany<\/a> as the world&#8217;s largest donor by default, even as it missed its own targets for international aid once again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"vjs-no-js\">To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that <a href=\"https:\/\/videojs.com\/html5-video-support\/\" target=\"_blank\">supports HTML5 video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of the core statistics on official development aid spending from the 34 DAC members and other major countries were as follows:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"vjs-no-js\">To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that <a href=\"https:\/\/videojs.com\/html5-video-support\/\" target=\"_blank\">supports HTML5 video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s deeply concerning to see this huge drop in ODA in 2025, due to dramatic cuts among the very top donors,&#8221;\u00a0OECD Secretary-General Mathias Cormann said. &#8220;In this challenging environment, the significant decline in official development assistance highlights the need to maximise the impact of available resources, and to use them more effectively to unlock new sources of investment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Carsten Staur, the chair of the \u200bOECD assistance committee told a news briefing on Thursday that &#8220;the message is extremely sombre.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The organization also forecasts a further, if more modest, decline of 5.8% in real terms in 2026. It said the atmosphere of sharp and continuing declines presented an &#8220;enormous shock to the system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"vjs-no-js\">To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that <a href=\"https:\/\/videojs.com\/html5-video-support\/\" target=\"_blank\">supports HTML5 video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Germany&#8217;s ODA contributions shrank from 0.68% of GNI in 2024 to 0.56%, at a total of $29.09 billion. If you exclude refugee assistance funding spent inside Germany, that figure falls further to 0.46%, based on Development Ministry\u00a0figures.<\/p>\n<p>Yet still Germany\u00a0became the largest overall donor in the world for the first time in history as the US, with an economy roughly six times the size of Germany&#8217;s, slashed its spending.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The US remains the second largest donor in overall terms, with EU institutions next in line and the UK a fairly distant fourth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Aid organizations criticized the government in Berlin while\u00a0security expert Philipp Rotmann at the Global Public Policy Institute\u00a0said the reductions were &#8220;not in Germany&#8217;s security interests&#8221; given the &#8220;deadly gap&#8221; left by the US pullout, from which Russia and China would seek to profit geopolitically.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The world&#8217;s on fire and Germany continues to cut,&#8221; Oxfam Germany chairwoman Charlotte Becker said, saying the reductions had life-threatening consequences.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Church charities like Brot f\u00fcr die Welt, Misereor, Caritas International and Diakonie issued a joint statement decrying a &#8220;dangerous downward spiral&#8221; in spending.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"vjs-no-js\">To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that <a href=\"https:\/\/videojs.com\/html5-video-support\/\" target=\"_blank\">supports HTML5 video<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Net bilateral aid to wartorn Ukraine from DAV members fell by 38.2% last year, according to OECD figures. This was driven by a sharp US dip as Trump returned to the White House, even as 23 countries increased bilateral contributions.<\/p>\n<p>However, because of new support via EU institutions in Brussels rather than member states, overall donations to Ukraine totaled $44.9 billion, an 18.7% increase on 2024 that bucked the overall trend and &#8220;the largest volume of net ODA to any single recipient in any year on record,&#8221; the OECD said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This amount was larger than DAC members&#8217; combined bilateral ODA to all less developed countries ($28.1 billion) and all countries in sub-Saharan Africa ($29.2 billion),&#8221; it said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The reduction in donations was most sharp in bilateral development assistance, falling 26.4%. Multilateral ODA spending levels fell by 12.7%. 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