Source · Select Committees · International Development Committee
Recommendation 7
7
Accepted
Formulate independent strategy for preventing and reducing displacement, not outsourcing to multilaterals.
Recommendation
Engagement with the World Bank’s fragility, conflict and violence strategy update is positive, but the Government should not assume that it can outsource to multilateral institutions the need to also formulate strategy on preventing and reducing displacement. (Conclusion, Paragraph 57)
Government Response Summary
The government explicitly states it does not assume it can outsource the need to formulate its own strategy on preventing and reducing displacement, affirming it has developed a cross-cutting strategic approach to address forced displacement.
Government Response
Accepted
HM Government
Accepted
30. While we have been engaging with the World Bank’s Fragility Conflict and Violence strategy refresh, we do not assume that we can outsource the need to formulate strategy on preventing and reducing displacement. 31. The FCDO has developed a cross-cutting strategic approach aimed at addressing forced displacement, more details of which are set out in the Government’s answer to Conclusion 7 below. (Conclusion 7, Paragraph 58) The Department lacks a holistic view of the drivers of and solutions to displacement, and therefore lacks an overarching strategy to establish solutions and prevention mechanisms. This means that UK impact in this area is constrained, reducing value for money of relevant spending and resulting in a wasted opportunity to assist displaced people.