Development Aid

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Development Aid

Development aid varies in:

Scale

Installing a village well

Vast irrigation project

Financially

Small charitable gift

Global appeal raising millions of pounds

Timescale

Short-term e.g. emergency aid

Long-term e.g. disease eradication programmes

A mix of aid providers

Local charities

IGOs

NGOs

Development aid often includes economics, and the creation of regular employment is thought to lead to a better standard of living.

Positive Impacts of Development Aid

Progress in the fight against disease

Smallpox eliminated due to global vaccination campaigns

Several diseases eradicated in developed countries but still exist in developing countries

Cholera

Typhoid

Malaria

Battle against malaria fought on 3 fronts:

Draining swampy areas where mosquitos breed/spray the areas with DDT or other pesticides

Encouraging those at risk to take preventative medicine

Reduce the risk of contracting malaria

Distributing mosquito nets

2015 - malaria vaccine underwent trials and was expected to be licensed

Education

Teaching personal hygiene and need for safe water and proper sanitation

Success with poverty and human rights

Number of people living in poverty declined due to stimulus of MDGs

1.9bn (1990)

836mn (2015)

15% of pop live on

Pathway out of poverty and hunger comes from economic development

Progress on human rights has been slow

Has been improved respect for gender equality and right to primary education

Comes from the difficulty of changing mindsets that have become deeply engraved in society

Conflict is a particular scourge of human rights

At times of conflict, abuse of human rights thrives

Rise of Islamic State threatens to reverse 50 years of development in the Middle East

Growing concerns about development aid

Aid in form of capital grants and loans seen to be inappropriate by some

Better to donate technical assistance and skills training?

Concern about size of aid budget

UK's ODA budget = £12bn

Too big or too little?

Criticism about distribution of aid

Up to 2015, most of UK's aid went to India

Too much aid money spent on military and given to corrupt officials

Development aid thought to encourage aid dependency rather than economic progress