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Published 6 January 2025 in Surveys
| In partnership with University College London (UCL) and Birmingham University, Focus 2030 is conducting a research-action program to analyze the perceptions, attitudes, behaviors and feelings of citizens on international solidarity issues in four countries: France, Germany, United States and United Kingdom. This research programme Development Engagement Lab (DEL), aims at providing various actors in charge of development issues (NGOs, foundations, think-tanks, ministries, public institutions, international organizations) with data to enable them to better understand citizens’ expectations while they implement their communication, mobilization and advocacy activities. Within the DEL project, the same 10 question survey is conducted three times a year in order to measure how much opinions evolve about official development assistance (ODA) in the four DEL countries. |
When measuring respondents’ opinions on whether official development assistance (ODA) should be increased, maintained, or decreased in the four countries surveyed by the DEL research project, we note that since 2019, French people are more likely than the Germans and British to want their governments to increase the amount of money allocated to ODA in order to support development in the poorest countries. Although, French support is progressively getting lower since october 2023.
According to the data collected in the USA, although one can observe an upward and/or downward fluctuation since June 2022. Nevertheless, this last survey in October 2024 shows that American support for ODA is now slightly higher than the French one.
Support for ODA in the UK was relatively stable between September 2022 and January 2024, but opinions in favor of an increase in ODA have fallen since June 2024 (-6 points). One can observe a fall among respondents in Germany, a loss of 10 percentage points between January 2022 and October 2024 in favor of increasing ODA.
| This data comes from our survey conducted by the YouGov Institute and piloted by the research team at University College London and the University of Birmingham as part of the project Development Engagement Lab which measures the evolution of opinions and behaviors on issues of international solidarity in four countries. |
