Target 17.2: Developed countries meet ODA commitments

Developed countries to implement fully their official development assistance commitments, including the commitment by many developed countries to achieve the target of 0.7 per cent of ODA/GNI to developing countries and 0.15 to 0.20 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries

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Why shareholder democracy is helpful

ODA is a budgetary decision of donor governments. Net ODA from Development Assistance Committee members reached 223.7 billion dollars in 2023 but stayed well below the 0.7 percent of GNI target. The ratio stood at 0.37 percent in 2022. Corporate advocacy on aid budgets does exist. The US Global Leadership Coalition, a network of more than 500 businesses and nonprofits, campaigns for strategic investments in development and diplomacy through the United States international affairs budget. No shareholder resolution on development assistance is on record, and appropriations remain political decisions that business support alone has not secured. Owners who press companies to sustain such advocacy help at the margin.

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Helpful. Owners voting their values help. Others must carry most of it.

We have not yet written down the two answers behind this rating. Recording them on every item, so a reader can check the reasoning and not only the conclusion, is work in progress.

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Sources

No shareholder advocacy found yet

We looked and found nothing that met our standard, which is a source we opened and confirmed. Official development assistance is a donor-government budget decision. The US Global Leadership Coalition is a business and nonprofit advocacy network lobbying the US international affairs budget, which is government lobbying and does not count as shareholder advocacy under this brief. No shareholder proposal, investor letter or proxy voting policy on aid commitments was located.

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Every item on every one of our maps is read against one question: how far does this depend on the people who own companies voting their values? We answer it twice, once for what companies do and once for what they spend to stop the outcome, and take whichever answer is higher, since the same vote reaches both. The score carries its reasoning and its sources so that a reader can check it rather than take it.

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Helpful. Owners voting their values help, and others carry most of it.
Independent. This moves without owners. Other levers carry it.

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