Source · Select Committees · International Development Committee
Recommendation 36
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Ringfence Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning spend within programme budgets to protect accountability and impact.
Conclusion
It is essential that the FCDO ringfences MEL spend within programme budgets and protects these throughout the reduction of ODA to 0.3% of GNI. Further cuts to MEL threaten to undermine the very assessments that sustain the accountability and impact of all FCDO work. (Recommendation, Paragraph 109)
Government Response
A response document is linked to this report, dated 11 February 2026. Response attribution to this conclusion has not been verified. Read the response document ↗