UAE foreign aid contributions exceeded AED28.62 billion ($7.79bn) in 2018.
The total was revealed by the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC) in its annual report.
It shows that the UAE is one of the world’s largest donors in terms of Official Development Assistance (ODA)/ Gross National Income (GNI).
According to a report by state news agency WAM, the country has gone above the 0.7 percent target set by the United Nations for the sixth consecutive year by providing 0.93 percent of ODA as a proportion of GNI in 2018.
Reem bint Ibrahim Al Hashemy, Minister of State for International Cooperation, said: “It gives me great pleasure to extend my sincere thanks and gratitude to the UAE donors, humanitarian and development organisations, and to all our international partners who work with us to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, believing that in the UAE, giving and mutual cooperation is our instrument to making a better world.”
The UAE continued to support the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2018, with more than half of the nearly AED28.62bn ($7.79bn) disbursed going towards peace and justice, economic growth, and poverty elimination initiatives.
Commitments made by the UAE in 2018 to global development and humanitarian assistance in numerous countries, including 14 Least Developed Countries (LDCs), reached AED10.33bn ($2.81bn).
These programmes include emergency health, transportation, education, power generation, medical, and food aid offerings, among others.
The report details how, from 2014 until 2018, the UAE supported programmes in Africa with aid reaching AED61.80bn ($16.83bn). The UAE support to Asia reached AED48.04bn ($13.08bn) in that same period.
The report also details the UAE’s work with small island states in the South Pacific to provide them with clean and renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind power projects; women’s empowerment in Afghanistan, and humanitarian assistance in Sudan, Palestine, and Yemen.
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