ICAI follow-up review of 2020-21 reports

ICAI’s follow-up review looks at how well government departments have responded to the recommendations made in our 2020-21 reviews, and outstanding issues from previous reviews.

  1. Status: Completed
  2. Published: 30 June 2022
  3. Type: Follow-up review
  4. Lead commissioner: Tamsyn Barton

Summary

This review presents the results of our 2020-21 follow-up exercise, which assesses progress made by aid-spending government departments and funds on addressing ICAI recommendations. This process is an important step in the accountability chain, providing the International Development Committee (IDC) and wider development stakeholders with evidence on whether the government has taken appropriate action in response to our recommendations.

This follow-up review covers 12 ICAI reviews in total. We follow up on seven reviews published between July 2020 to July 2021 (the two reviews assessing the government’s official development assistance (ODA) spending target are followed up together). We also return to four reviews published previously, to address outstanding issues from previous follow-up exercises.

The 2020-21 follow-up summarises our findings for the following seven reviews:

It also looks again at four outstanding issues from previous follow-up exercises:

Timeline

Review publication

Published 30 June 2022

Further scrutiny

Published 18 July 2023