Official Development Assistance (ODA) International Programme Quarterly Spending

Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) International Programme data, which superseded the FCO Bilateral and Strategic programme fund. The datasets are cumulative and are added to quarterly, with the last update recorded on 2026-07-08. Data is provided by the UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office under the OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze quarterly trends in UK Official Development Assistance spending based on the cumulative update structure.
• Compare funding allocations between the current International Programme and its predecessor funds mentioned in the description.
• Track the evolution of UK foreign policy spending priorities based on the programme's stated purpose.

Strengths

• Data is updated quarterly, providing regular snapshots of spending.
• Published under the permissive OGL-UK-3.0 license, facilitating reuse.
• Managed by the authoritative Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and total data size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:30:49.299089; freshness should be verified.