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Ensuring accountability of the development budget

Posted by: DFID Media Team, Posted on: 6 November 2017 - Categories: Corporate performance, Official Development Assistance

The Daily Express has published an article today which claims that “billions of pounds is funnelled abroad with little accountability”. This is simply wrong.

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Modernising international aid rules

Posted by: DFID Media Team, Posted on: 1 November 2017 - Categories: Official Development Assistance
Priti Patel visits UK aid stores

The UK has secured important progress at the Development Assistance Committee meetings in Paris to change the international aid rules and ensure they remain relevant for the modern world.

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How the UK aid budget is spent across government

Posted by: DFID Media Team, Posted on: 31 October 2017 - Categories: Official Development Assistance

...have been absolutely clear on the robust measures in place to ensure our overseas development investments achieve the best value for money. Speaking yesterday a Downing Street spokesperson said: We...

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UK aid commitments: 30 October 2017

Posted by: DFID Media Team, Posted on: 30 October 2017 - Categories: Official Development Assistance
UKaid delivered 5 tonnes urgently needed food and water from cdemacu to British Virgin Islands

The Daily Express published an article today claiming that 10,000 people have signed their online petition for the government to reduce the foreign aid budget. The newspaper claims that this...

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UK aid commitments: 24 October 2017

Posted by: DFID Media Team, Posted on: 24 October 2017 - Categories: Humanitarian aid
UK aid

...practices. We have also expanded ‘Payment by Results’, meaning that our support is increasingly based on performance. And we’re making 30% of our funding to the United Nations and its...

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The latest on the UK’s hurricane response: 1 October 2017

Posted by: DFID Media Team, Posted on: 1 October 2017 - Categories: Humanitarian aid

UK relief efforts in the aftermath of the hurricanes continued this weekend with the arrival of HMS Ocean in the Turks and Caicos islands today (Sunday 1 October). So far...

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