Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 4 December 2012
125. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount of funding allocated by Irish Aid to Irish non-governmental organisations working in Uganda; the proportion of this funding which goes to NGOs and civil society organisations that work on improving democratic accountability and good governance; and the way this proportion compares to other like minded donors to Uganda. [54136/12]
View answer126. Deputy Seán Crowe asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide statistics on the historical trend of Irish Aid to Uganda, namely, the total amount of aid that has been given to Uganda by Irish Aid every year since it became a partner country; the percentage of the Irish Aid budget that the funding to the Ugandan programme represents for each of these years; and the share of funding that went to governance and anti-corruption based projects in each of these years. [54137/12]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 125 and 126 together.
I have set out in a following table details of Irish aid spent in Uganda over the past 5 years which includes expenditure on the bilateral country programme and the additional funding provided to Non-governmental or Civil Society Organisations for their programmes in Uganda. The table also includes a breakdown of the funding disbursed through the country programme on governance and anti-corruption projects. In the time available, it has only been possible to provide this level of detail for the past five years.
In regard to the funding of Irish NGOs for work in Uganda, almost all of the €5.8 million of the overall budget allocated through HQ to civil society in 2012 has been provided to Irish NGOs. There is one project in 2012, which received support from an Irish NGO specifically to improve democratic accountability and good governance in Uganda. Trócaire provided approximately €606,000 to fund a key element of its programme in Uganda targeted towards improving basic services and promoting vibrant civil society and more accountable local government in Northern Uganda.
IRISH AID FUNDING OF UGANDA 2008-12
|
- |
2008 |
2009 |
2010 |
2011 |
2012 *BUDGET |
|
Total Global Irish Aid Budget |
€768.737m |
€571.835m |
€521.55m |
€520.18m |
€517.033m |
|
Country Programme Uganda |
€41.7m |
€35.4m |
€33m |
€32.75m |
€32m |
|
(Element of Programme spent on Governance ) |
€9m |
€8,23m |
€11m |
€10.5m |
€3.3m |
|
Civil Society Funding : the bulk of this funding goes to Irish NGOs for work in Uganda |
€8.081 |
€7.178m |
€7.9m |
€8 m |
€5.8 m |
|
Other Irish Aid funding and Programme Management |
€7.183m |
€3.5m |
€2.85m |
€1.56m |
€1.3 |
|
Total Irish Aid Spend on Uganda |
€55m |
€46 m |
€44m |
€42.5m |
|
|
Percentage of total Irish Aid budget spent on programmes in Uganda |
7.1% |
8% |
8.40% |
8.20% |
7.5% |
*The annual figures are for the amount spent/outturn except for 2012 which is the budget figure (however, €16 million of the country programme budget of €32m is under suspension currently because of financial misappropriation within the Office of the Prime Minister in Uganda).
