In his annual speech in Parliament, Gareth Davies, head of the NAO, championed effective innovation as a way to tackle the ongoing challenge of rising demand for stretched public services.
The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office has made substantial progress with the merger that created it, although some issues remain.
This report assesses whether DFID’s 2018 Strategic Vision for Gender Equality is well placed to secure value for money.
This report assesses whether DFID’s 2018 Strategic Vision for Gender Equality is well placed to secure value for money.
This report sets out the facts about the government’s support of shale gas development in England.
This report focuses on what Official Development Assistance spending is achieving in practice.
This report focuses on what Official Development Assistance spending is achieving in practice.
This report, our first on this subject, is a landscape review of the BBC’s commercial activities, setting out how the BBC organizes these activities and the key risks and challenges they currently face.
Official Development Assistance is being increasingly spent by departments other than the Department for International Development.
Official Development Assistance is being increasingly spent by departments other than the Department for International Development.
The NAO has conducted an investigation into DFID’s approach to tackling fraud, following an increase in the potential risks after the government committed to spend 0.7% of GDP on foreign aid.
The NAO has conducted an investigation into DFID’s approach to tackling fraud, following an increase in the potential risks after the government committed to spend 0.7% of GDP on foreign aid.
The NAO’s memorandum, for the International Development Committee, provides an overview of trends in UK spending on aid.
The Department for International Development met, for the calendar year 2013, the government target to spend 0.7% of the UK’s annual gross national income on overseas aid.
Despite providing substantially increased funding for PIDG (up to £700 million by 2015), the Department has not exercised enough oversight to ensure value for money has been achieved.
This briefing by the National Audit Office is designed to support the International Development Committee’s inquiry into the Department for International Development’s Multilateral Aid Review (MAR).
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The 2011 DfID review of the £3.6bn spent through multilateral organisations (such as the UN) is a significant step towards achieving value for money.
This briefing complements the Departmental Overview the National Audit Office prepared for the Department for International Development in September 2011 and covers specific topics of particular interest to the Committee.
DFID has improved its core financial management and has an ambitious programme underway to improve its focus on value for money. But it cannot yet assess important aspects of the value for money of the aid it has delivered, at an aggregated level.