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Author : Great Britain: H.M. Treasury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780101887892
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (878 download)
Download or read book UK Aid written by Great Britain: H.M. Treasury and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Government recognises that aid spending has sometimes been controversial at home because people want to know that it is squarely in the UK's national interest. Recent crises have proved, though, why aid is so important for us as well as for the countries we assist. The 2015 Spending Review is therefore being used to fundamentally review how this budget is spent. Spending will be shaped according to four strategic objectives. The strategy sets out how, as a result of the new approach, we will: allocate 50% of all DFID's spending to fragile states and regions; increase aid spending for the Syrian crisis and the related region; end all traditional general budget support - so we can better target spending; use an expanded cross-government Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF) to underpin our security objectives by supporting the international work of the National Security Council (NSC); create a £500 million ODA crisis reserve to allow still greater flexibility to respond to emerging crises such as the displacement of Syrian refugees; fund a new £1 billion commitment to global public health (the "Ross Fund") which will fund work to tackle the most dangerous infectious diseases, including malaria. The fund will also support work to fight diseases of epidemic potential, such as Ebola, neglected tropical diseases, and drug resistant infections; and use a new cross-government Prosperity Fund, led by the NSC, to drive forward our aim of promoting global prosperity.
Author : Great Britain: Department for International Development
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780102945195
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (451 download)
Download or read book Department for International Development annual report 2007 written by Great Britain: Department for International Development and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-05-22 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annual report details the work and expenditure of the Department for International Development (DFID) during the period April 2006 to March 2007, working as part of the wider international effort to tackle world poverty and promote the sustainable development of low-income countries. The report includes chapters on: reducing poverty in Africa and Asia and progress towards the Millennium Development Goals; making the multilateral system and bilateral aid more effective; fragile states, conflicts and crises; environment, climate change and natural resources; and working with others on policies beyond aid. The assessment of progress is structured around the DFID Public Service Agreement (PSA) targets.
Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. International Development Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 0215081269
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (15 download)
Download or read book HC 663 - The Future of UK Development Co-operation: Phase 2: Beyond Aid written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. International Development Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2015 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The number of low income countries is falling. At the same time, the importance of global issues - conflict, climate, migration, trade, tax, financial stability, youth unemployment, urbanisation economic development, and infectious disease - is rising. The Committee argues that aid remains vital for addressing poverty in poor countries, for encouraging economic development, for providing global goods such as tackling climate change, combating diseases such as Ebola and providing humanitarian assistance, but new forms of co-operation have to be developed in order to meet these challenges. This will include new financial mechanisms and facilitating links with UK institutions in a wide range of areas, including health, education, culture, law, culture and science. This will require the Department for International Development (DFID) to put more emphasis on working with small organisations and less on programme management.As the focus moves away from aid, policy coherence for development must be at the heart of a new approach. This means working across Government in the UK, and with global partners in the multilateral system, to maximise the impact on development of all the UK's actions. This approach and changes will require DFID staff to develop different skills.
Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215556240
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (562 download)
Download or read book Department for International Development annual report & resource accounts 2009 - 10 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 2010 Comprehensive Spending Review the Coalition Government announced its decision to achieve the internationally agreed target of providing 0.7 percent of Gross National Income as ODA from 2013. This will involve spending an additional 2.5 billion pounds in 2013-14 to make the total DFID budget 11.3 billion pounds in that year. There will be a large increase in spending on fragile and conflict affected states and it will be difficult to ensure that every pound is well spent in such war-torn environments. When scrutinising DFID's accounts the MPs were also surprised to discover that the Pope's visit was paid for in part by money supposed to be for overseas development aid (ODA). The Committee expects a response from the Government as to what the £1.85 million, transferred to the Foreign Office for the papal visit, was spent on and an explanation as to how this was ODA compliant. The Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) announced reductions in DFID's running costs to 2% of the total budget. If achieved, this would make DFID the most cost-efficient development organisation in the world.This is to be achieved by a large reduction in back office administration costs (which excludes front-line staff) of £34 million over the CSR period. The International Development Committee supports the proposals to make savings in back office staff, but the MPs are warning that Ministers must ensure that reduced administration budgets do not affect the ability to deliver aid programmes on the ground. While declining as a share of total costs, running costs will increase in real terms over the next four years because the total budget will rise so much.
Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215037312
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Department for International Development annual report 2007 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-11-15 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating HCP 936-i, session 2006-07
Author : Commission on Growth and Development
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821374923
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (213 download)
Download or read book The Growth Report written by Commission on Growth and Development and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2008-07-23 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The result of two years work by 19 experienced policymakers and two Nobel prize-winning economists, 'The Growth Report' is the most complete analysis to date of the ingredients which, if used in the right country-specific recipe, can deliver growth and help lift populations out of poverty.
Author : Robert L. Hicks
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199582793
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Greening Aid? written by Robert L. Hicks and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-04 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than three decades, the impact of aid on the global environment has been the subject of vigorous protest and debate. With billions spent on environmental aid each year, this groundbreaking text seeks to understand why aid is given, how effective it is, and whether aid is actually going to the places with the greatest environmental need.
Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. International Development Committee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780215013309
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Department for International Development Departmental Report written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. International Development Committee and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report scrutinises the 2003 departmental report (Cm. 5914, ISBN 010159142X) (May 2003). The Committee is critical of the performance of the DFID in several policy areas. The Department must ensure that it reports on the full range of its activities and not just those related to Public Service Agreement (PSA) targets; financial reporting should be clearer and more consistent. DFID supports and rewards countries that show evidence of "good governance", by means of its Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRSs). However, "poor performers" should not be neglected and DFID must find ways of engaging with these countries. There is a need for better communication between donors and recipients, and donors should be more open about the conditions under which support would be withdrawn. A coherent strategy for agriculture is lacking, and additional data should be included regarding Sexual and Reproductive Health.
Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215042910
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (429 download)
Download or read book Department for International Development annual report and resource accounts 2010-11 and business plan 2011-15 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2012-03-09 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While DFID's total budget is increasing, the Department will both restrict operating costs to 2% by 2014-15 and reduce its administrative costs by a third in real terms, from £128 million in 2010-11 to £94 million by 2014-15. This report warns that capping operational costs and staff numbers may not reduce overall costs or improve effective delivery of development assistance. The International Development Committee also raises concerns that cost pressures are driving DFID to use consultants to deliver its programmes, rather than in-house expertise. The Department spends £450 million on technical cooperation per year. Much of this is good work, yet it was unclear exactly what this money was spent on, or how effective it was and the extent to which external providers were used. DFID needs to improve its assessment of which projects and services it should use consultants for; and assess more carefully the use of consultants to manage the Department's own delivery programmes. In its efforts to reduce administrative spending DFID might be 'exporting' these costs to other organisations, including NGOs and multilateral aid organisations, with higher real administration costs. The Department should assess the best and most effective way to deliver development assistance as it may be able to do it more cheaply and effectively than external organisations. The report recommends that the Department improves its tracking of and reporting on the total cost of administering its aid programme with the aim of quantifying how much aid actually ends up reaching recipients.
Author : Great Britain: Department for International Development
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781474119290
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (192 download)
Download or read book Department for International Development Annual Report and Accounts 2014-15 written by Great Britain: Department for International Development and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Print and web pdfs are available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications Web ISBN=9781474119306
Author : Great Britain: National Audit Office
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780102951325
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Providing budget support to developing countries written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008-02-08 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Budget support is aid provided directly to a partner government's central exchequer, and aims to reduce poverty through helping to fund the poverty reduction strategy of the beneficiary country. DFID's use of budget support has risen to £461 million, representing nearly twenty per cent of bilateral expenditure. This study examines the aims of budget support, what it is achieving, how DFID manages the risks of using it and how DFID takes individual funding decisions. The report finds that budget support has: often enabled partner governments to increase expenditure on priority areas; resulted in partner governments providing more services, particularly in health and education; helped increase the capacity of partner governments to plan and deliver services effectively and to develop better poverty-focused policies; helped partner governments to strengthen their financial management systems and encouraged other donors to support such reforms; facilitated donor alignment to, and support for, the developing nation's own strategies; and reinforced existing economic stability and good economic management. But evidence on whether budget support has yielded better value for money than other forms of aid is not conclusive. While budget support has some advantages compared to other forms of aid, it also carries significant risks which need to be better managed. Monitoring achievement is challenging, and DFID does not always set out what it expects to achieve or by when. Formal monitoring frameworks do not always track progress in remedying weaknesses in financial systems. And monitoring of human rights - one of the key criteria for giving budget support - is not yet systematic. Weaknesses in available statistics continue to limit the ability to monitor results. Developing country governments may not be capable of using UK funds efficiently and effectively or may misuse them for political reasons or through corruption.
Author : Great Britain: National Audit Office
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780102969665
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Financial management report written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2011-04-06 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sound financial management will be essential at the Department for International Development as its spending increases by a third over the next four years. The Department has put important building blocks in place; however its financial management is not yet mature. The Department cannot yet assess important aspects of the value for money of the aid it has delivered, at an aggregated level. The Department's programme budget will grow by £3.3 billion from 2010-11 to 2014-15 (34 per cent in real terms). At the same time, its administration budget is going to reduce by a third. The Department has increased the number of finance professionals it employs, but this expertise needs to be used more effectively across the business. In addition, new financial information systems do not yet provide the data needed to support well-founded decisions and forecasts are still an area of weakness. After a thorough review the Department now has a high level plan. Along with actions to strengthen measurement of aid projects, this has the potential to help strengthen the focus on aid results and value for money. But key risks need to be managed and a single strategy for doing so is needed. With greater spending in higher risk locations and more fragile states more must be done to assure that fraud and corruption risks are minimised. Although the level of reported fraud is low, it is likely to be under-reported. The NAO has found that the investigation of fraud is reactive and the Department does not attempt to quantify its estimated likely fraud losses
Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. International Development Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 0215084543
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (15 download)
Download or read book HC 750 - Department for International Development's Performance in 2013-2014: The Departmental Annual Report 2013-14 written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. International Development Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2015 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government response to HC 693, 2013-14 (ISBN 9780215071750). DFID's annual report for 2012-13 published as HC 12, session 2013-14 (ISBN 9780102983241)
Author : Stephen Brown
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137568828
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book The Securitization of Foreign Aid written by Stephen Brown and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Security concerns increasingly influence foreign aid: how Western countries give aid, to whom and why. With contributions from experts in the field, this book examines the impact of security issues on six of the world's largest aid donors, as well as on key crosscutting issues such as gender equality and climate change.
Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 0215071751
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Department for International Development's Performance in 2012-13: Departmental Annual Report 2012-13 - HC 693 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is the International Development Committee's annual review of UK aid programmes and the administration of the Department for International Development (DFID). The Committee finds that field work overseas should be given greater priority and Ministers must explain UK spending on humanitarian projects more clearly. DFID should not provide funds to support disasters in middle income countries by raiding bilateral development programmes in low income countries. Other wealthy OECD countries must play their part in providing humanitarian assistance. DFID should set out annually its provisional budget for humanitarian relief, what is held as contingencies for unpredictable events and how it will be deployed if not called upon. There has also been a decline in DFID's spending on budget support, the consequences of which should be assessed. £1,075 million of DFID's bilateral expenditure is spent through multilaterals and private contractors. DFID has put in place a number of changes to improve the value for money provided by spending through and should report on their effectiveness. The Committee is also worried that the Department actually spends 40% of its budget in the last two months of the year, which raises questions about the smooth running of management and planning processes. DFID staff should have longer postings overseas (normally a minimum of four years) so that they can develop a deeper understanding of the culture and politics of the country they are working in and engage more effectively with the country's politicians.
Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215513984
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (139 download)
Download or read book DFID and the World Bank written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2008-03-05 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Bank is a major provider of development funding, analysis and advice. The Bank is not perfect, however, and the context in which it operates continues to change. As a major shareholder and contributor to the World Bank, the UK has a distinct leadership role. The UK should articulate and pursue a vision for reform of the Bank. The Department for International Development's (DFID) and the Bank both have core objectives of poverty reduction. There is an increased responsibility on DFID to ensure that the Bank is organisationally effective and achieving a level of development impact that justifies the UK contributions. More consistent and transparent use of impact assessments by the World Bank across all of its lending is the single most important change in Bank practice that DFID should be pursuing. There should be more representation of developing countries in World Bank decision-making. Selection of the President of the World Bank, should be transparent and on merit, rather than in the gift of the United States. Other recommendations cover: women's empowerment; DFID staffing in relation to the Bank; and climate change. This last is an acute challenge for developing countries. As a development leader, the Bank should use its substantial resources and leverage to support viable renewable energy sources. But the urgency of climate change does not lessen the blight of poverty and the Bank's primary focus must remain on poverty reduction and development.
