Question 33405 — foreign policy

Summary

Mr. Jean François Mbaye questions the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs on the priority sectors of French public development assistance (ODA) which will be identified within the framework of the future orientation and programming law relating to development and international solidarity policy (LOP-DSI). The covid-19 pandemic has highlighted inequalities in access to basic social services such as health, education, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and social protection, while revealing their interdependence. The crisis has also highlighted the crucial role that these sectors play in ensuring an emergency response and guaranteeing everyone respect for their most basic rights, without leaving anyone behind. Faced with the lack of financial resources of the poorest countries and faced with debt, ODA is more than ever a essential complementary instrument to combat inequalities and poverty in the medium and long term and achieve the targets set by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). If these sectors are politically prioritized by France, as evidenced in particular by the CICID conclusions of February 2018 or the AFD's social link strategy, they do not benefit from the increase in budgets dedicated to ODA. According to the DPT 2020 figures, aid for health, education excluding school fees and water and sanitation represented less than 20% of France's total ODA in 2018. This is all the more worrying as the needs in priority countries for French aid have increased exponentially in recent months. In particular, it would be appropriate to set a target of 50% of total ODA dedicated to basic social services, in the form of of donations. During the presidential campaign, the President of the Republic committed to revising the law on development aid, aiming to guide the political and financial priorities of French aid for the next five years. The renewal of this law offers France the crucial opportunity to refocus French ODA on basic social services. Furthermore, on the occasion of a response dated July 2020 to a question relating to the priority financial objectives of French development aid policy, the minister indicated that the increased means of the ODA mission and the FSD would be targeted towards the sectoral and geographical priorities established by the CICID, which the MP welcomed. The Minister also specified that these priority sectors would be equipped with indicators and ambitious quantitative targets in the AFD 2020-2022 objectives and means contract. He therefore wishes to know if these quantitative targets will also be included in the budgetary programming of the future development law, in order to concretely translate French priorities into financing, and in what proportions.

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