16 Jul 2020
Ahead of ICAI’s forthcoming review assessing the results achieved by DFID in its nutrition programmes, ICAI Chief Commissioner Dr Tamsyn Barton reflects on how the COVID-19 pandemic could impact on the government’s work in this area.
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18 Jun 2020
ICAI has today published its June newsletter, featuring a round-up of the aid watchdog’s latest activity.
19 May 2020
Evidence note by the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) on the effectiveness of UK aid is published by the International Development Committee.
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26 Feb 2020
A new review by the UK’s aid watchdog will look at the government’s approach to tackling modern slavery through the aid programme.
16 Oct 2015
ICAI is reviewing DFID’s Efforts to Eliminate Violence Against Women and Girls. Today we have published our approach paper for this review. It sets out the questions that we seek to answer as part of the review, our methodology and approach. We will review DFID’s efforts to build a portfolio of relevant and coherent programmes […]
29 Jul 2014
ICAI's Matt Wilkins writes about examining corruption in Nepal.
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14 Mar 2014
Commissioner Mark Foster writes about his visit to Kenya as part of the report into Child Mortality Reduction.
27 Feb 2014
In response to Typhoon Haiyan, UK Aid was mobilised to help the Philippine people. ICAI undertook a rapid review to see how taxpayers money was being spent. Commissioner Mark Foster writes about what he saw in advance of the publication of our review.
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22 Jan 2014
At the end of last year, Diana Good went to Tanzania as part of ICAI’s review of DFID's private sector development work. She talks about her experiences in this blog.
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25 Oct 2013
As part of the DFID Support to Agricultural Research report, Lead Commissioner John Githongo and our team visited Uganda to examine the HarvestPlus project which encouraged farmers to grow and eat Vitamin A-enriched sweet potato. The project took place over 2006-09. HarvestPlus worked with NGOs and targeted 10,000 farmers in three districts in eastern Uganda. The project […]
