Evaluation of DFID’s Support for Civil Society Organisations through Programme Partnership Agreements – Inception Report
Footnotes
1 DFID uses the broader term civil society organisations (CSOs) rather than non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to categorise funding that is not made through governments or multilateral organisations.
2 We are including this KPMG contract with DFID as a case study in our current review, DFID’s use of contractors to deliver programmes, which is being led by Concerto Partners LLP, an organisation which is not part of our consortium.
3 Terms of reference: Evaluation of DFID’s Support for Civil Society Organisations through Programme Partnership Agreements, 2012, ICAI http://icai.independent.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Evaluation-of-DFIDs-Support-for-Civil-Society-Organisations-through-Programme-Partnership-Agreements.pdf.
4 Quotations on funding purpose set out below were provided to ICAI by DFID.
5 ‘Duty-bearer’ is a legal term meaning someone who is responsible for making sure that people holding particular rights have those rights met.
6 DFID reports that the funding of this consortium was an innovation; previously only single entities had been funded.