Global Challenges Research Fund

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.

  1. Status: Completed
  2. Published: 12 September 2017
  3. Type: Rapid review
  4. Subject: Research, UK aid funds
  5. Assessment: Unrated
  6. Lead commissioner: Tina Fahm

International Development Committee

Parliament’s International Development Committee (IDC), or its ICAI sub-committee, hold hearings on all ICAI reviews. The IDC hearing on the GCRF is available to watch online.

ICAI follow-up

ICAI follows up on all of its reviews to check what progress has been made since publication. ICAI’s GCRF follow-up is available to read now.

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Timeline

Approach

Published 22 May 2017

Evidence gathering

Complete

Review publication

Published 12 September 2017

Government response

Published 30 October 2017

Parliamentary scrutiny

IDC hearing 6 December 2017

ICAI follow-up

Published 18 July 2019