MPs report on Department for International Development Financial Management

Thursday, October 20th, 2011

The Commons Public Accounts Committee publishes its 52nd report of Session 2010-12, on the basis of evidence from the Department for International Development (DfID). Report: DfID Financial Management "The Rt Hon Margaret Hodge MP, Chair of the Committee of Public Accounts, said: "The amount DfID spends on aid will rise by 35% by ...

Monitoring Policy Dialogue: Lessons From A Pilot Study

Tuesday, October 11th, 2011

By Sadie Watson And Juliet Pierce. September 2008. DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT. Evaluation Report WP27 Executive Summary In 2007, a tool and process was developed for improving the recording and impact of policy dialogue initiatives across DFID. It was based on an adaptation of current project cycle management (PCM) requirements for programme ...

Commons Select Committee to Scrutinise the DFID’s Annual Report & Resource Accounts

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

13 September 2011 "The International Development Committee is to conduct an inquiry into the Department for International Development’s Annual Report and Accounts 2010-11 and the Department’s Business Plan 2011-15. Invitation to submit Written Evidence The Committee will be considering Changes since the election to DFID's, role, policies, priorities and procedures; The implications of changes for ...

DFID&UKES Workshop on Development and Evaluation: Practical Ways Forward.

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

  Date:  WEDNESDAY 12 OCTOBER 2011 Venue: BIS Conference Centre, Victor ia, London Objectives: To examine the key contributions of evaluation to international development To provide an update on the accountability framework for evaluation in the UK To explore the role of professional development in building evaluation capacity THIS ONE DAY EVENT will raise important issues ...

RCTs for empowerment and accountability programmes

Monday, August 1st, 2011

A GSDRC Helpdesk Research Report, Date: 01.04.2011, 14 pages, available as pdf. Query: To what extent have randomised control trials been used to successfully measure the results of empowerment and accountability processes or programmes? Enquirer: DFID Helpdesk response Key findings: This report examines the extent to which RCTs have been used successfully to measure ...

DPC Policy Discussion Paper: Evaluating Influencing Strategies and Interventions

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011

A paper to the DFID Development Policy Committee. Available as pdf  June 2011 Introduction "1 The Strategy Unit brief of April 2008 envisaged that DFID should become more systematic in planning and implementing influencing efforts. Since then, procedures and guidance have been developed and there is an increasingly explicit use of influencing ...

Good Enough Guide to Impact Measurement – Rapid Onset Natural Disasters

Friday, May 27th, 2011

[from the Emergency Capacity Building Project website] Published on 6 April 2011 The Department for International Development (DfID / UKAID) awarded a grant for the ECB Project to develop a new Good Enough Guide to Impact Measurement. Lead by Dr. Vivien Walden from Oxfam, a team of ECB specialists from CRS, Save ...

Synthesis Study of DFID’s Strategic Evaluations 2005 – 2010

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

  A report produced for the Independent Commission for Aid Impact by Roger Drew, January 2011. Available as pdf. Summary S1. This report examined central evaluations of DFID’s work published from 2006 to 2010. This included: - 41 reports of the International Development Committee (IDC) - Two Development Assistance Committee (DAC) peer reviews - 10 National Audit ...

UK Independent Commission for Aid Impact – Work Plan

Tuesday, May 17th, 2011

Independent Commission for Aid Impact – Work Plan, and the associated Press Release (12 May 2011) 1. This document introduces the Independent Commission for Aid Impact’s first work plan, setting out the reports we envisage initiating over the next three years, from May 2011 to May 2014. 2. Our mandate permits us ...

NAO report: DFID Financial Management Report

Wednesday, April 13th, 2011

Full report - DFID: Financial management report Executive summary (PDF - 73KB) NAO Press Release 6 April 2011... "Sound financial management will be essential at the Department for International Development as its spending increases by a third over the next four years, according to the National Audit Office. The Department has improved its core financial management ...