In 2020, a staggering 33% of the world's population did not have access to adequate food a significant regression in food and nutrition security progress since the turn of the century. Furthermore, the #covid-19 crisis, climate change, and emerging conflicts around the world are beginning to unravel a decade of development progress in food security. This donor tracker insight examines the trends in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) development assistance committee (DAC) donors official development assistance (oda) and policies for food and nutrition-related sectors. It gives recommendations to donor governments on the funding and policies in these sectors needed to meet the SDGs by 2030 and provides advocates with a list of key events to watch.

Abrupt withdrawals from Afghanistan left many harrowing images of chaos at Kabul airport accompanied by troubling reports from other cities.

Words are the building blocks of policy. Over the last decade, individuals, advocacy groups, and institutions have called for development actors to reassess the old-fashioned language that once dominated the field of global development. 

The Donor Tracker team has used this last year as an opportunity to listen, read, and learn from peers in the development space and to reflect on how we can be part of the push to modernize the language, narratives, and terminologies used in global development. This piece shares examples of updates in global development terminology and encourages actors in this space to consider how the language they use shapes policies and influences relationships and attitudes towards their partners in global development. 

Will donors’ development finance be targeted where it is needed most? Will it achieve the ownership and support of the recipient country? Will it be provided transparently so that recipients and taxpayers can scrutinize it? And will it be properly evaluated?