Irish Aid Annual Report 2025

Ireland’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) programme works to create a more equal, peaceful and sustainable world.

For 51 years, we have assisted people experiencing the most acute levels of need. This support is delivered primarily through our embassy network and trusted partners, including multilateral organisations and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) operating in some of the poorest, most climate vulnerable, and conflict affected regions in the world. In all areas, we strive to reach the furthest behind first, focusing on the most vulnerable and marginalised.

Guided by A Better World: Ireland’s Policy for International Development, our four priority areas are:

• Gender Equality
• Reducing Humanitarian Need
• Climate Action
• Strengthening Governance.

Ireland's ODA in 2025 amounted to a total of €1.88 billion, or 0.44% of Gross National Income (GNI).

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Irish Aid - delivering real results for those most in need

"Irish Aid has grown from a small relief fund into one of the most respected development and humanitarian programmes of its size in the world."

Neale Richmond TD

Minister of State for International Development and Diaspora

"I have seen how quickly our partners can move when a crisis hits, provided the funding behind them is flexible and predictable rather than tied up in process."

Neale Richmond TD
Minister of State for International Development and Diaspora

Humanitarian impact

To maximise the relevance and reach of our interventions, Ireland prioritises inclusive, transformative, and effective approaches. Through coordinated action, Ireland is delivering enormous impact for the furthest behind, and the achievements of Irish Aid in 2025 contain numerous demonstrations of the success of these approaches in practice.

In 2025, Ireland worked through bilateral, multilateral, and development partners to support transformational change in education, addressing key bottlenecks to progress on education and learning, and building strong and resilient education systems. Ensuring access to quality education for girls has been integral to this work.

Irish Aid has continued to prioritise gender equality through dedicated funding and ensuring the integration of the needs and interests of women and girls across all our interventions and partnerships.

Working with at-risk communities to build their preparedness before crisis hits plays a vital role in minimising the impacts of shocks on lives and livelihoods. In 2025, Ireland supported partners to activate anticipatory action frameworks during crises in a range of countries, including Cuba, Guatemala, Haiti, Mozambique, Nigeria, and the Philippines, allowing proactive and cost-effective responses that save lives.

Ireland supports civil society through a number of funding mechanisms, which allows for flexibility of approach.

Ireland’s Civil Society Partnership for A Better World (ICSP) is Irish Aid’s €100 million flagship funding scheme for large international civil society partners. It supports 10 members to deliver long-term development and humanitarian programmes overseas, alongside Global Citizenship Education initiatives here in Ireland. In the third year of the scheme, ICSP partners worked in 43 countries and have directly improved the lives of over 5.5 million people.

The Civil Society Fund (CSF) provided €7.5 million in 2025 to support 27 small and medium-sized development partners carry out a wide range of human rights and development related projects worldwide, including promoting the rights, inclusion and participation of vulnerable groups, including people living with disabilities.

• Concern Worldwide’s programme supported the treatment of 36,674 children for severe and moderate acute malnutrition in 2025.
• Trócaire’s programme saw significant gains in food security across 15 countries in 2025, with a 71% improvement in the median households’ dietary diversity scores.
• GOAL Global supported 154 health facilities across fragile settings, maintaining delivery in conflict affected areas such as Sudan and strengthening frontline teams through mentoring, better supplies and stronger community–facility dialogue.

• Self Help Africa’s programme provided water for domestic use, livestock, and irrigation, enabling 13,537 households to access year-round water in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Malawi, Uganda, and Zambia in 2025.
• Christian Aid Ireland: 1,477 survivors of genderbased violence, 97% of whom are women and girls were supported to access legal, livelihood, and social services through Christian Aid Ireland’s ICSP programme.
• Oxfam Ireland responded to the March 2025 Myanmar earthquake through its Irish Aid-funded programme, and reached 1,758 households, benefitting 6,801 individuals providing WASH support, on-food items, Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance and protection services to affected communities.

• World Vision Ireland: In 2025, World Vision Ireland’s programme supported 10,024 people across South Sudan, Somalia and DRC, contributing to improved delivery of gender-responsive, conflict-sensitive, safe and inclusive education services, with a particular focus on girls and the most marginalised children.
• Plan International Ireland: 73,485 children, 32,687 girls (44%) and 40,798 boys (56%), accessed education in 2025 through Plan International Ireland’s ICSP programme in six countries in West Africa.
• Sightsavers Ireland: 11,693 cataract surgeries reduced avoidable blindness in women, girls, and people with disabilities through the Irish Aid-funded programme in Sierra Leone and Liberia.
• ActionAid Ireland’s Irish Aid-funded programme supported capacity building of 40 women’s groups, networks and women’s rights organisations in Ethiopia, Kenya and Nepal in 2025.