Rapid review of DFID’s Smart Rules

A rapid review of DFID's procedures for programme management, the Smart Rules, to see how they respond to the issues that we have raised in our 38 reports to date.

  1. Status: Completed
  2. Published: 16 December 2014
  3. Type: Rapid review
  4. Subject: Government processes and systems
  5. Assessment: Unrated
  6. Lead commissioner: Mark Foster

Summary

DFID recently reformed its procedures for programme management. It has called these new procedures ‘Smart Rules: Better Programme Delivery’. We have undertaken a rapid review of the Smart Rules, to see how they respond to the issues that we have raised in our 38 reports to date. As this was a rapid review, our aim was to help DFID to refine and enhance the impact of the Smart Rules. We have not applied our usual scoring criteria, nor rated the work to date.

 

Timeline

Review publication

Published 16 December 2014

Government response

Published 19 January 2015

ICAI follow-up

Published 30 June 2016