Source · Select Committees · International Development Committee
Recommendation 22
22
Accepted in Part
Ensure coherence for locally-led programmes by developing a cross-departmental local leadership strategy.
Conclusion
The Minister for International Development must ensure that there is coherence across the department in respect of promoting locally-led programmes and ensuring they deliver good VfM. This should include prioritising the development of a local leadership strategy as a cross- departmental piece of work that places lower- and middle-income countries at the centre. (Recommendation, Paragraph 68)
Government Response Summary
The government partially agrees, stating it has added ‘locally led’ as a principle in the refreshed PrOF and will provide detailed guidance, indicating local leadership as an organizing principle but not explicitly committing to a new cross-departmental strategy.
Government Response
Accepted in Part
HM Government
Accepted in Part
Partially agree. The FCDO has added ‘locally led’ as a principle for good quality programming in the refreshed PrOF and will follow this up with detailed guidance on existing good practice, to advise colleagues working on development and managing programmes. The UK’s modernised development approach, including the shift to local leadership, is an organising principle across all work within the FCDO. This approach makes clear that the department should be working in closer partnership with local actors rather than through internationally driven interventions.