BRAZIL AS A DONOR COUNTRY
• In 2013, Brazil provided US$1. 8 million for humanitarian emergencies, making it the 39 th largest government donor of official humanitarian assistance. • Over the past decade Brazil has been the 32 nd largest government provider of humanitarian assistance. Annual humanitarian assistance decreased by 97% in 2013. Brazil provided US$54 million to humanitarian emergencies in 2012, its largest volume of humanitarian giving in the past decade. • In 2010, Brazil gave the equivalent of 0. 02% of its gross national income (GNI) as foreign assistance. • 53% of Brazil’s overall humanitarian assistance in the last 10 years has gone to countries in sub. Saharan Africa. In the last 10 years the largest recipients of its humanitarian assistance have been Somalia (US$27 million) and Haiti (US$24 million). • In 2010 Brazil became the 36 th member of the Good Humanitarian Donorship (GHD) group, committing to the ‘ 23 Principles and Good Practice’; it was the first non-DAC donor, outside of Europe, to join. In addition, Brazil has been establishing a number of development partnerships. In June 2003 a trilateral agreement between India-Brazil-South-Africa (IBSA) was established, and in 2004 the Poverty and Hunger Alleviation Fund was set up to offer alternative financing for Southern partners. • Brazil endorsed IATI at the High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan in December 2011. • Humanitarian assistance and ODA can be viewed in the wider context of resource flows that can be mobilised in Development Initiatives’ Investments to End Poverty (ITEP) report – Brazil country profile.
THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION! =) DONE BY Julia Torkunova & Ruslan Bekniyazov
