Briefs

Achieving Agenda 2030: Trends in the allocation of TOSSD resources towards leaving no one behind, A review of 2021 TOSSD data for the Sustainable Development Goals

The Total Official Support for Sustainable Development (TOSSD) statistical framework “is designed to provide a coherent, comparable and unified system for tracking resources for sustainable development that can inform strategic planning, identify emerging gaps and priorities, and assess progress in matching supply with needs.” In a dramatically changing financing landscape, TOSSD is intended to deliver greater transparency in the financing of sustainable development, including both concessional and non-concessional official resources as well as mobilized private flows that are reported separately, from a broad scope of providers, north and south. The framework requires data on the specific Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and targets “that the activity directly and significantly contributes to,” where “no substantial detrimental effect is anticipated on one or more of the other targets.” In March 2023, the TOSSD Task Force released the 2021 data at the activity level, which had been reported by 105 providers. ActionAid Italy, Oxfam International, and AidWatch Canada have analyzed these data and the apparent trends in TOSSD allocations in a series of five Briefing Papers.

This second Briefing Paper looks in depth at patterns in the allocation of 2021 TOSSD resources towards the SDGs. It can be read as a stand-alone report, but the reader will benefit from reviewing the first Briefing Paper (see https://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/research-publications/trends-in-official-support-for-agenda-2030/) for background on overall trends in the TOSSD data since 2019.

UNFAIR SHARE: Unequal climate finance to East Africa's hunger crisis

The stark reality of climate change has highlighted the financial obligations rich polluting nations, especially in the global North, owe communities and countries most impacted and now unprepared to deal with the unavoidable cost of the climate crisis. East Africa is one of the world’s worst hit regions by climate change and is now experiencing its worst climate-induced extreme weather, fueling an alarming hunger crisis, despite contributing almost nothing to global carbon emissions.

Best States to Work Index 2023: Policy recommendations

The 2023 edition of the BSWI underscores the need for stronger federal policies on wages, worker protections, and rights to organize.

Technology transfer as a U.S. foreign policy priority

Supporting diversified global South local manufacturing is a strategy to improve sustainable, equitable supply of lifesaving medical tools.

U.S. Care Policy Scorecard: Policy Recommendations

The U.S. Care Policy Scorecard exposes the ways federal policies fail to meet the needs of working families, caregivers, and care workers.

Trends in Official Support for Agenda 2030: An Overview of TOSSD Data, 2019 to 2021

In March 2023, the International TOSSD Task Force1 released the 2021 data that had been reported by 105 providers documenting their Total Official Support for Sustainable Development (TOSSD) for that year. TOSSD is a new metric developed by the International Task Force as a comprehensive measure of official resources dedicated to achieving Agenda 2030 and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in developing countries, reflecting the ambitious financing strategy agreed in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda (AAAA) in 2015.

There are now three years of TOSSD data from 2019 to 2021. What do these three years of data reveal about the extent and the quality of financing for Agenda 2030 and the SDGs?

This Briefing Paper, the first in a series of five, provides an overview of trends derived from the 2019 to 2021 data and sets the stage for in-depth analyses in the subsequent paprers. It acknowledges that TOSSD is an evolving metric for providers, with major providers such as the World Bank, Germany and the Netherlands not yet reporting, and with individual providers increasing the coverage of their eligible finance over these years. Comparisons between providers can be problematic. The trends outlined in these papers therefore at this stage can only be interpreted as indicative of directions of finance for Agenda 2030.