Irish Aid's spending will increase by 21 per cent in 2007 and will meet the target of 0.5 per cent of GNP to keep Ireland line to meet the target of 0.7 per cent by 2012.
Irish Aid is the Government's programme of assistance to developing countries and will spend €813 million on Official Development Assistance (ODA) next year.
NGO and civil society groups such as Trócaire, Concern and Goal will receive over €140 million in 2007.
In response to the growing number of natural and man-made disasters throughout the world, spending in emergency situations will increase by 50 per cent to €90 million.
The UN's Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) will receive €20 million, a doubling of its 2006 allocation. The CERF allows the UN to deploy rapidly and effectively when disasters occur.
Ireland has eight partner countries - Malawi will be the ninth - with which it has a bilateral relationship, providing predictable funding to government-run projects and programmes. Next year, Ireland will allocate €201 million to its partner countries - an increase of 16 per cent on last year.
Among the projects that Ireland has financed are the building and staffing of 83 HIV/Aids counselling and testing in Mozambique, access for over 20,000 HIV positive people in Mozambique to anti-retroviral therapy, and a
programme of well and borehole building in Zambia's Northern Province.