Download or read book Department for International Development s Annual Report and Accounts 2011 12 written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. International Development Committee and published by . This book was released on 2013-04-24 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government response to HCP 751, session 2012-13 (ISBN 9780215053183). Incorrect HC number, 1097, printed on document

Download or read book Department for International Development s Annual Report and Accounts 2011 12 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About two-thirds of DFID's expenditure in 2011-12, including nearly 40% of its bilateral spending, went through multilateral organisations even though they have higher administrative costs. This represents a major change in recent years and has been accompanied by a decline in direct aid to recipient Governments. DFID argues that the change is not a reflection of its need to spend money quickly, but a result of the reduced need for budget support in countries with rising tax bases and improved financial management, as well as its focus on fragile states. The DFID needs to ensure that it has thoroughly examined other options such as greater use of local NGOs and sector budget support. DFID has switched expenditure from low income to middle income countries, in part because several countries with a large number of poor people have recently graduated to middle-income status. Policy towards middle income countries varies and DFID needs establish and make public the criteria it will use to inform decisions of when and how it should cease to provide aid. DFID should also consider establishing a Development Bank - that could offer concessional loans alongside grant aid and would free from the constraint of having to ensure that cash was spent by the end of the financial year. Staffing also may still not be sufficient to oversee the huge expenditure of UK taxpayers' money undertaken by multilaterals. MPs remain concerned that DFID's has ended its bilateral programme in one of the world's poorest countries, Burundi, and is urging the new Secretary of State to re-instate it.

Download or read book Department for International Development Annual Report and Accounts 2010 11 written by Great Britain. Department for International Development and published by . This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two volumes not sold separately. Vol. 1: Annual report; Vol. 2 Accounts

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 . This book was released on 2012-05-17 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government response to HC 1569, session 2010-12 (ISBN 9780215042910)

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.

Download or read book Department for International Development Annual Report and Accounts 2011 12 written by Great Britain. Department for International Development and published by Stationery Office/Tso. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this annual report DFID reports on a year of substantial achievement against targets. By 2011/12 DFID had achieved the following results through the Bilateral Programme since the baselines for its public results commitments: improved the land and property rights of 1.1 million people; supported 5.3 million children (2.5 million of them girls) to go to primary school; distributed 12.2 million bednets to protect people against malaria; supported 26 African countries to agree an Africa Free Trade Area; enabled 11.9 million people to work their way out of poverty by providing access to financial services; prevented 2.7 million children and pregnant women from going hungry; reached 6 million people with emergency food assistance; supported freer and fairer elections in 5 countries; improved hygiene conditions for 7.4 million people. Results achieved through DFID's Multilateral Programme: ensured 99.1 million people had enough food to eat (World Food Programme); immunised 37.3 million children against preventable diseases (The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation); detected and treated 900,000 cases of tuberculosis (The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria); gave 7.3 million households clean water to drink with a new water supply (Asian Development Bank); equipped 6.6 million people with new electricity connections (over 2009-2011 period; African Development Bank). Key reforms in the year include: launching the independent Commission for Aid Impact; piloting cash on delivery contracts and other forms of payment by results; reforming CDC, the development finance institution.

Download or read book Department for International Development Annual Report and Resource Accounts 2009 10 written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. International Development Committee and published by . This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government response to HC 605, session 2010-11 (ISBN 9780215556240)

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Download or read book The Global Findex Database 2017 written by Asli Demirguc-Kunt and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2011 the World Bank—with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation—launched the Global Findex database, the world's most comprehensive data set on how adults save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk. Drawing on survey data collected in collaboration with Gallup, Inc., the Global Findex database covers more than 140 economies around the world. The initial survey round was followed by a second one in 2014 and by a third in 2017. Compiled using nationally representative surveys of more than 150,000 adults age 15 and above in over 140 economies, The Global Findex Database 2017: Measuring Financial Inclusion and the Fintech Revolution includes updated indicators on access to and use of formal and informal financial services. It has additional data on the use of financial technology (or fintech), including the use of mobile phones and the Internet to conduct financial transactions. The data reveal opportunities to expand access to financial services among people who do not have an account—the unbanked—as well as to promote greater use of digital financial services among those who do have an account. The Global Findex database has become a mainstay of global efforts to promote financial inclusion. In addition to being widely cited by scholars and development practitioners, Global Findex data are used to track progress toward the World Bank goal of Universal Financial Access by 2020 and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The database, the full text of the report, and the underlying country-level data for all figures—along with the questionnaire, the survey methodology, and other relevant materials—are available at www.worldbank.org/globalfindex.

Download or read book The Delusion of Knowledge Transfer written by Susanne Koch and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the rise of the knowledge for development paradigm, expert advice has become a prime instrument of foreign aid. At the same time, it has been object of repeated criticism: the chronic failure of technical assistance a notion under which advice is commonly subsumed has been documented in a host of studies. Nonetheless, international organisations continue to send advisors, promising to increase the effectiveness of expert support if their technocratic recommendations are taken up. This book reveals fundamental problems of expert advice in the context of aid that concern issues of power and legitimacy rather than merely flaws of implementation. Based on empirical evidence from South Africa and Tanzania, the authors show that aid-related advisory processes are inevitably obstructed by colliding interests, political pressures and hierarchical relations that impede knowledge transfer and mutual learning. As a result, recipient governments find themselves caught in a perpetual cycle of dependency, continuously advised by experts who convey the shifting paradigms and agendas of their respective donor governments. For young democracies, the persistent presence of external actors is hazardous: ultimately, it poses a threat to the legitimacy of their governments if their policy-making becomes more responsive to foreign demands than to the preferences and needs of their citizens.

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