Abstract
This paper reviews Ireland's official development assistance (ODA) programme during 2003. It opens with an overview of events at global and European levels, including international conferences and negotiations, and follows with an overview of official aid flows from DAC donors, indicating an increase in real terms of 3.9% compared with 2002. Irish official aid also grew, but by much less than would be necessary to keep it on track for reaching the UN target of 0.7% of gross national income (GNI) by the end of 2007. The paper provides data on total ODA for selected years since 1994 and a detailed breakdown of bilateral and multilateral aid expenditures for 2001, 2002 and 2003, comparing budgets with outturns under each of the main expenditure headings. Budgets for 2004 are also presented. The DAC produced a peer review of the Irish aid programme during 2003, and its main findings and recommendations are analysed in the paper. The government's proposal to decentralise DCI to Limerick is also examined.
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