In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has become the greatest threat to world health and could seriously regress the progress made in highly divergent fields.
Moreover, the crisis has only made existing health problems worse, highlighting even more sharply the need to advance in Sustainable Development Goal 3, related to health and well-being, and to achieve Universal Health Coverage.
Unfortunately, the present report demonstrates how only five out of the 29 countries from the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) have met the objective to allocate 0.7% of their Gross National Income (GNI) to Official Development Assistance.
In 2019, Spanish Aid represented 0.21% of the country’s GNI, insufficient for reaching the said 0.7%, while the importance placed on Cooperation continues to drop and stands at 2.39% of the total. Spain’s Humanitarian Aid is also at a bare minimum, despite a slight increase, reaching 62 million euros and representing 2.35% of the Aid total. In short, a long way from the 10% commitment.
and could seriously regress social progress to reduce poverty and hunger, accentuate humanitarian crises and inequalities, and cause human rights and democratic governability to go backwards.
COVID-19
el virus continuará matando y la recuperación a nivel global se retrasará.
Vaccines
one which caught the world unawares despite previous warnings.
World health governance
and the crisis has done little more than exacerbate already existing health problems, interrupting, either partially or completely, care for non-communicable diseases in no fewer than 60 countries.
Sustainable Development Goals
If the situation continues to move in the same direction, the World Health Organisation estimates that 5 billion people will not have access to health care by 2030.
Universal Health Coverage
and the percentage of this aid allocated to health by the Committee’s countries has dropped by 6.5% in relation to the previous year.
Internacional Cooperation
insufficient to reach the 0.7% commitment, some distance from the 0.30% average of DAC donor countries and from the 0.47% average of EU donor countries.
Spanish Official Development Assistance
a percentage which is way below the 12.91% average of DAC donors and a far cry from the 8% Spanish Cooperation allocated for the sector in 2010.
Health in Spanish Cooperation
despite a light increase positioning it at 62 million euros, which represents 2.35% of the ODA total, some distance from the 10% commitment and not enough to alleviate humanitarian needs.
Spanish Cooperation’s Humanitarian Aid
Is an online tool which interactively presents the data, analysis and recommendations included in the Annual Report: Health in Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Action.
These reports are a joint initiative between medicusmundi and Médicos del Mundo, which, since 2002, have provided a critical analysis of international, state and decentralised Official Development Assistance in the sphere of health care and humanitarian action with the aim of improving their quality, effectiveness and efficiency.