Value for money: A list

Wednesday, March 9th, 2011

Hopefully, the start of a short but useful bibliography, listed in chronological order. Please suggest additional documents by using the Comment facility below.  If you have ideas on how Value for Money can be clearly defined and usefully measured please also use the Comment facility below.. For the Editor's own suggestion, go ...

The future of UK aid: Changing lives, delivering results: our plans to help the world’s poorest people

Wednesday, March 9th, 2011

The results of two DFID reviews made public on 1st March 2011, and available on the DFID website UK aid: Changing lives, delivering results - summary report of the two aid reviews Country summaries - where we will work Bilateral Aid Review - technical report Multilateral Aid Review - full report Taking Forward the Findings ...

UK Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) – online consultation

Thursday, February 3rd, 2011

ICAI website text: "The Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) is the independent body responsible for the scrutiny of UK aid, focusing on delivery of value for money for the UK taxpayer, maximising the impact for recipients and ensuring effectiveness of the UK aid budget. ICAI reports ...

Value for Money: How are other donors approaching ‘value for money’ in their aid programming?

Monday, December 6th, 2010

....A question posed to the Research Helpdesk of the Governance and Social Development Resource Centre "Key findings: DFID appears to have gone the furthest among aid agencies in developing the concept of ‘value for money’ (VFM). It is the only agency that explicitly uses the terminology frequently in its policies ...

House of Commons International Development Committee interviews DFID

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

...specifically, Nemat (Minouche) Shafik, Permanent Secretary, Department for International Development, and her colleagues, on Tuesday 16 November at 10.30am, on the subject of DFID in 2009-10 and the Resource Accounts 2009-10. The proceedings can be viewed here on Parliament TV Some of the questions asked: You have a sharply rising ...

AusAID-DFID-3ie call for Systematic Reviews

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010

The Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) and the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) have just launched a joint call for proposals for systematic reviews to strengthen the international community’s capacity for evidence-based policy making. AusAID, DFID and 3ie ...

DfID Seeks Suggestions for Implementing Aid Transparency Initiative

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

on Devex, By Eliza Villarino on 06 September 2010 "The U.K. Department for International Development launches an online discussion to seek input on how it should implement the UKaid Transparency Guarantee. The U.K. Department for International Development has opened an online discussion to help it decide how to implement its ...

DFID Draft Structural Reform Plan July 2010

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

Available  on the DFID website and as a pdf. "Structural Reform Plans are the key tool of the Coalition Government for making departments accountable for the implementation of the reforms set out in the Coalition Agreement. They replace the old, top-down systems of targets and central micromanagement. The reforms set out in ...

“Full transparency and new independent watchdog will give UK taxpayers value for money in aid”

Saturday, June 5th, 2010

Copied from the DFID website, 3rd June 2010: [Please post your Comments below and/or on the Guardian Katine website ] "British taxpayers will see exactly how and where overseas aid money is being spent and a new independent watchdog will help ensure this aid is good value for money, International Development Secretary ...