How UK aid learns

Departments with new aid budgets are increasingly developing their understanding of how to use aid effectively - but more should be done to integrate learning into international development spending across government to ensure value for money.

  1. Status: Completed
  2. Published: 12 September 2019
  3. Type: Rapid review
  4. Subject: Cross-government aid spend, Government processes and systems
  5. Assessment: Unrated
  6. Lead commissioner: Tamsyn Barton

Government response

The government publishes a response to all ICAI reviews, indicating whether they ‘accept’, ‘partially accept’ or ‘reject’ each of ICAI’s recommendation and setting out the management actions that they propose to take in response.

The government’s response to our how UK aid learns review is available to read online.

Read the government response

Timeline

Approach

Published 1 April 2019

Evidence gathering

Complete

Review publication

Published 12 September 2019

Government response

Published 24 October 2019

Parliamentary scrutiny

Complete 17 November 2020

ICAI follow-up

Published 23 June 2021

Further follow-up

Published 30 June 2022

Third follow-up

Published 18 July 2023