"We want to alert the G8." A two-day summit in Deauville, which begins Thursday, May 26, Sébastien Fourmy, director of advocacy and education Oxfam France, calls the G8 countries on non-compliance with the promises of official development assistance (ODA) made at the Gleneagles summit in 2005. In Scotland, the G8 promised to increase the volume of ODA by 50 billion over the period 2004-2010.
This promise involved not only the eight group members but also members of the industry "development cooperation" from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Today, Oxfam estimates that 31 billion dollars were verséset that only "19 billion unaccounted for." The organization, based on OECD figures, also denounced the "tricks" of the report on G8 commitments submitted by the Minister for Cooperation, Henry Raincourt, May 18 at a meeting with NGOs.
Indeed, "on the first page of the report, the figure put forward, is the figure of 49 billion," Sébastien Fourmy regrets. The 31 billion raised by Oxfam are mentioned only once, "relegated to a small paragraph. The difference between these two figures, based on the same data, those of the OECD, is explained by the method of calculation.
The first number, the Department takes into account inflation. Since 2004, the dollar has lost value. Between 2004 and 2010, official development assistance for countries committed to the promise of 2005 has increased from 80 to 129 billion dollars, thereby advancing the growth of sales with 49 billion.
But if we take into account inflation, the $ 129 billion fund for $ 111 billion and the increase is reduced to $ 19 billion. In a statement dated May 18, Henry Raincourt surprised "certain comments" and rejects any accusation of manipulation on the report: it is "an exercise in complete transparency and the best proof is that both figures evolution of development assistance with and without inflation cited by some NGOs for the last two days are exposed black and white in the same report in one paragraph.
Asked about this discrepancy, Charlotte Dollot, media and communications advisor to the Minister of Cooperation, said that the report containing the 2005 commitments "did not specify whether the $ 50 billion is in constant dollars or current dollars. However, on April 6, in a research note on the figures of official development assistance in 2010, the OECD considers that "compared to what promises implied by the 2005 figure of 2010 is still a deficit some 19 billion dollars.
" Oxfam's side, Sebastien Fourmy hoped that countries will benefit from the G8 summit in Deauville for their commitments. "We need a plan to catch up," he says. For NGOs, this plan should include two components, quantitative, with an increase in ODA, and qualitatively, with the strengthening of human resources in the health sector and supporting small-scale agriculture.
"Development assistance can not do everything, he admits, but its role is essential." Thomas Baïetto 
This promise involved not only the eight group members but also members of the industry "development cooperation" from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Today, Oxfam estimates that 31 billion dollars were verséset that only "19 billion unaccounted for." The organization, based on OECD figures, also denounced the "tricks" of the report on G8 commitments submitted by the Minister for Cooperation, Henry Raincourt, May 18 at a meeting with NGOs.
Indeed, "on the first page of the report, the figure put forward, is the figure of 49 billion," Sébastien Fourmy regrets. The 31 billion raised by Oxfam are mentioned only once, "relegated to a small paragraph. The difference between these two figures, based on the same data, those of the OECD, is explained by the method of calculation.
The first number, the Department takes into account inflation. Since 2004, the dollar has lost value. Between 2004 and 2010, official development assistance for countries committed to the promise of 2005 has increased from 80 to 129 billion dollars, thereby advancing the growth of sales with 49 billion.
But if we take into account inflation, the $ 129 billion fund for $ 111 billion and the increase is reduced to $ 19 billion. In a statement dated May 18, Henry Raincourt surprised "certain comments" and rejects any accusation of manipulation on the report: it is "an exercise in complete transparency and the best proof is that both figures evolution of development assistance with and without inflation cited by some NGOs for the last two days are exposed black and white in the same report in one paragraph.
Asked about this discrepancy, Charlotte Dollot, media and communications advisor to the Minister of Cooperation, said that the report containing the 2005 commitments "did not specify whether the $ 50 billion is in constant dollars or current dollars. However, on April 6, in a research note on the figures of official development assistance in 2010, the OECD considers that "compared to what promises implied by the 2005 figure of 2010 is still a deficit some 19 billion dollars.
" Oxfam's side, Sebastien Fourmy hoped that countries will benefit from the G8 summit in Deauville for their commitments. "We need a plan to catch up," he says. For NGOs, this plan should include two components, quantitative, with an increase in ODA, and qualitatively, with the strengthening of human resources in the health sector and supporting small-scale agriculture.
"Development assistance can not do everything, he admits, but its role is essential." Thomas Baïetto
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