Food Security & Nutrition Aid Analyser
How much is spent on food security and nutrition?
The Food Security and Nutrition Aid Analyser brings clarity on Official Development Assistance (ODA) to end hunger and malnutrition. It extensive analytics offers insight into:
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Current aid levels and trends, including the different methodologies used to shape reported aid volumes,
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The integration of additional policy outcomes - such as biodiversity and gender - with food security aid
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Current spending levels and how they match with scientific evidence on best practices for resources allocation,
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The impacts of aid cuts (and increases) through user simulations
By bringing better clarity on how much, where and in what areas that aid is being spent, the Food Security and Aid Analyser supports greater coordination between donors and will ultimately make the case for better targeted ODA spending to end hunger and malnutrition.
Making the case for a new food security and nutrition?
Over 10 operational definitions track official development assistance (ODA) derived from the Organization of Economic Cooperation Development (OECD) Development Assistance Committee’s (DAC) Creditor Reporting System (CRS). ​However, each definition uses a different selection of aid purpose codes leading to huge differences in estimated spending. Depending on the definition used, estimates differ – from USD 5.9 billion to USD 63.8 billion.
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Multiple trackers exist, each uncovering different parts of the aid story. The FAO and the Shamba Centre for Food & Climate mapped and reviewed 19 trackers – 16 ODA trackers and three non-ODA trackers – with the aim of identifying their strengths and gaps, as well as their features and tools, to determine the value added of a new aid tracker.
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To progress towards a more coherent framework, the FAO and the Shamba Centre, as part of the Hesat2030 project, outlined the need for a new food security and nutrition aid analyser. Donor stakeholders indicated strong support for a food security and nutrition aid analyser that provides a clearer picture of financing for food systems.