Development Co-operation Reviews: United Kingdom 1998

Development Co-operation Reviews: United Kingdom 1998

The OECD Development Assistance Committee's 1998  review of the UK's development aid programs and policies. It finds that the United Kingdom is changing its approach to international development policy. The new British Government, elected in May 1997, has created a Department for Internati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Corporate Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Paris : OECD Publishing 1998.
Series:Development Co-operation Reviews, no.25.
Subjects:
Development
United Kingdom
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009705189406719
Table of Contents:
  • Summary and conclusions
  • Chapter 1. New policy framework and orientations
  • A. A new government
  • B. From the Overseas Development Administration (ODA) to the Department for International Development (DFID)
  • C. Aid budget prospects
  • 1. Overall ODA budget
  • 2. Multilateral commitments
  • D. Key policy directions
  • 1. Focus on poverty
  • 2. Coherence and internal co-ordination
  • 3. Environment and natural resources
  • 4. Good government and human rights
  • Chapter 2. Features of the United Kingdom aid programme and aid management
  • A. Major features
  • 1. Instruments
  • 2. Key themes related to reform: capacity development, technical co-operation and the social sector including gender
  • 3. Process projects
  • 4. Conflict, Peace and Development
  • 5. Emergency and humanitarian aid
  • 6. Aid co-ordination, development strategies and country strategies
  • 7. Aid efficiency, effectiveness and results
  • 8. Multilateral policies
  • 9. Debt reorganisation, forgiveness
  • 10. Public opinion, information and development education
  • B. Aid management
  • 1. Organisation
  • 2. Decentralisation
  • 3. Budget system
  • 4. Staffing
  • 5. Information systems (IS)
  • 6. Aid procedures: the Office Instructions
  • Chapter 3. Other elements of the United Kingdom programme
  • A. Aid and Trade Provision (ATP) and mixed credits
  • B. Private sector development and Commonwealth Development Corporation
  • C. Non governmental organisations
  • D. British Partnership Scheme (BPS)
  • E. British Council
  • F. The Commonwealth
  • G. CEECs/NIS – The Know How Fund and a new strategy for transition countries
  • Chapter 4. Basic profiles
  • A. ODA volume and outlook
  • B. Composition and sectoral distribution of aid
  • C. Geographical distribution
  • D. Procurement, tied aid and associated finance

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