European foreign aid to regional organisations in Africa: bullies, overseers, micromanagers and samaritans

Figures & data

Figure 1. Regional ODA to African RIOs and the African Union, 2002–2016 (US$ million).

Source: authors’ dataset.

Figure showing evolution over time of total regional foreign aid to all regional organisations in Africa compared to regional foreign aid directed towards the AU.

Table 1. Policy and implementation involvement towards RIOs.

		Implementation involvement
		Direct	Indirect
Policy involvement	Active	A	B
	Passive	C	D

Table 2. Overview of regional ODA to the African Union (2002–2016).

	EU	UK	Germany	Sweden
Amount of regional ODA	US$191.5 million	US$110.5 million	US$278.7 million	US$99.7 million
Focus areas (% of total funding)	governance (47%) peace/security (24%) agriculture (14%)	agriculture (29%) governance (22%) environment (14%) infrastructure (13%) peace/security (10%)	peace/security (47%) governance (21%) social welfare (14%)	governance (32%) environment (28%) peace/security (28%)
No. of aid projects	74 (124 project-years)	92 (145 project-years)	62 (201 project-years)	68 (119 project-years)
Main type of intervention	mix of smaller projects, technical assistance and long-term, large-scale programmes	short-term projects and technical assistance (≤ 2 years)	large-scale, long-term projects and programmes (4+ years)	mix of projects, technical assistance, ad hoc programme and core support (≤ 2 years)

Source: own dataset; author.

Table 3. Donor approaches towards the African Union.

		Implementation involvement
		Direct	Indirect
Policy involvement	Active	Bully - EU	Overseer - UK
	Passive	Micromanager - Germany	Samaritan - Sweden