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Austria
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ODA Spending
How much ODA does Austria contribute?
How is Austria's ODA changing?
How is Austria's ODA allocated?
Austria has a preference for channeling ODA multilaterally, mainly as core contributions to multilateral organizations.
Bilateral Spending
Almost a quarter of Austria’s bilaterally allocated ODA is not allocated by region. This includes bilateral funding that stays within Austria and bilateral programming to multiple countries.
Austria has a strong tradition of supporting conflict prevention and nuclear non-proliferation, disarmament, arms control, and the rule of law as foreign policy priorities. Austria promotes regional and European integration in Southeast Europe.
Multilateral Spending and Commitments
What is the future of Austria's ODA?
Politics & Priorities
What is the current state of Austria's politics?
The BMEIA leads on Austrian development policy and Minister of Foreign Affairs. Core contributions to multilateral organizations and oversight of the OeEB fall under the purview of the Federal Ministry of Finance. The Ministry of Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation, and Technology is responsible for Austria's contribution to the GCF. Additionally, various entities, such as local governments, federal states, and several other federal ministries, including Education, Science and Research, Defense, and the Federal Chancellery, contribute to and participate in Austria's ODA. The BMEIA also manages the budget and operations of Austria’s implementing organization, the ADA. The ADA operates through 11 coordination offices and 13 project offices in Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe. Within the Nationalrat, or the Austrian Parliament, the Sub-Committee on Development is responsible for development policy and the development of the Three-year Program for Austrian Development Cooperation.
What are Austria's development priorities?
Conflict prevention, disarmament, protection of civilians and the rule of law are long-standing priorities of Austria’s foreign policy. The regional focus of Austria’s development cooperation focuses on its Southeastern European neighbors, partner countries on the African continent, and crisis regions and fragile states.
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The Donor Tracker team, along with many DAC donor countries, no longer uses the term "foreign aid". In the modern world, "foreign aid" is monodirectional and insufficient to describe the complex nature of global development work, which, when done right, involves the establishment of profound economic and cultural ties between partners.
We strongly prefer the term Official Development Assistance (ODA) and utilize specific terms such as grant funding, loans, private sector investment, etc., which provide a clearer picture of what is concretely occurring. “Foreign aid” will be referenced for accuracy when referring to specific policies that use the term. Read more in this Donor Tracker Insight.
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