Over the last few months, the Donor Tracker team has been following the impacts of COVID-19 in a rapidly shifting global development landscape. This slide deck accompanied a webinar where our speakers, Raimund Zühr and Zoë Johnson, presented some early insights into donor country responses, discussed the potential impact on ODA volumes and allocations, and explored how global development advocates can best respond.

Creating a gender-equal health workforce is increasingly recognized as a key vehicle to achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Ahead of a panel on the topic hosted by Women in Global Health at this year’s World Health Summit in Berlin, we looked at how OECD DAC donors are funding gender equality in the healthcare workforce. We assess how funding flows line up with political rhetoric on the issue, discuss challenges with data validity, and highlight what kinds of development projects will need to be funded to achieve transformative change.

In a new policy paper, we teamed up with Duke University’s Center for Policy Impact in Global Health and UCSF’s Institute for Global Health Sciences to analyze how multilaterals can scale up their support for global public goods for health under the Global Action Plan. We focused on the four organizations that provide the most development assistance for health: Gavi, the Global Fund, World Bank, and World Health Organization. Our analysis points to five key actions these organizations can take individually and collectively to deliver on the Global Action Plan.

How are the governments of OECD donor countries prioritizing gender equality in their development policy? How much money do they give? Which projects are they funding? In this report, the Donor Tracker takes a look at trends in OECD DAC members’ ODA spending and policy for gender equality in 2017.