Find the new article by Vincent Pradier, PhD student at the Sorbonne Business School.
Financing, alternatives, France's positions, changes: what does the landscape of official development assistance and non-governmental organizations look like today?
On August 20, 2024, Gabriel Attal, the resigning Prime Minister, sent the ceiling letters to the various ministries, setting out the 2025 budget guidelines for each of them. Although a number of details remain to be worked out, the 2025 State budget will be identical to that of 2024, i.e. a number of appropriations have already been cut compared to 2023. This is particularly true of official development assistance (ODA), which, according to publicly available information, will be cut by 20%. Unless changes are decided by the team put together by Michel Barnier, newly appointed to Matignon, French ODA, already sharply reduced in 2024, would risk falling back to its 2016 level, erasing in the process all the progress achieved since President Macron came to power. [...]