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Recommendation 5

Second Report - Effectiveness of UK aid: interim findings Published 9 Jun 2020 Paragraph 28 Addressed to Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

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Recommendation (the committee's words)
In this Committee’s view, stronger accountability and oversight is needed to help prevent distortions in the uses of development assistance and undermining the case for aid. For aid spending outside DFID, there should be clearer links to poverty reduction. The Government should put measures in place to ensure there is no return to tied aid. Finally, ministerial-led oversight of the ODA spending budget across Whitehall should be restored.

From: International Development Committee, Second Report - Effectiveness of UK aid: interim findings (HC 215), paragraph 28, 9 June 2020

Government response

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