The UK’s humanitarian support to Syria
24 May 2018
DFID overcame substantial barriers to the delivery of aid, such as food, shelter and vaccines but took too long to put the required staffing and resources in place
24 May 2018
DFID overcame substantial barriers to the delivery of aid, such as food, shelter and vaccines but took too long to put the required staffing and resources in place
16 May 2018
Around one in six people in developing countries live with a disability. As a group, they tend to be poorer, and suffer more discrimination, exclusion and violence than the rest of the population.
29 Mar 2018
Shortcomings in aid programmes delivered as part of the government’s CSSF are undermining its contribution to building peace, stability and security.
28 Feb 2018
DFID has taken a well-considered approach to mainstreaming resilience to natural disasters, and has helped to promote the inclusion of resilience into the global development agenda.
20 Feb 2018
The Department for International Development’s approach to value for money is helping to make UK aid spending go further, but improvements are still needed.
31 Jan 2018
While health has been a major focus of UK aid for many years, the response to and lessons from the Ebola crisis stimulated a rapid scaling up of activity and spending to address global health threats.
8 Nov 2017
The Department for International Development (DFID) has developed a credible approach to enabling fair and open competition in its supplier market and to achieving value for money in its procurement, a new ICAI review has found.
12 Sep 2017
The cross-government Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) has the potential to help address major global development challenges, but risks being spread too thinly to achieve transformative results.
28 Jun 2017
DFID doubled its expenditure on economic development in recent years to £1.8 billion a year, with the objective of promoting economic transformation and job creation.
23 Jun 2017
In extremely challenging circumstances, UK aid is making a positive contribution to state-building and stability in Somalia.
21 Jun 2017
ICAI’s follow-up review looks at how well DFID and other government departments have responded to the recommendations it made in previous reviews.
10 Mar 2017
UK aid interventions designed to address irregular migration through the central Mediterranean are currently some distance from making a measurable impact.