ICAI follow-up review of 2021-22 reports

Summary

Our annual follow-up review assesses progress made by aid-spending government departments and funds on addressing ICAI recommendations. This 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 report covers eight ICAI reviews published between July 2021 and July 2022:

• International Climate Finance: UK aid for halting deforestation and preventing irreversible biodiversity loss
• UK aid’s alignment with the Paris Agreement
• The UK aid response to COVID-19
• The UK’s approach to safeguarding in the humanitarian sector
• Tackling fraud in UK aid through multilateral organisations
• Assessing UK aid’s results in education
• The UK’s support to the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA)
• The UK’s humanitarian response to COVID-19

It also returns to six reviews published in previous cycles to address outstanding issues from last year’s follow-up exercise:

• UK aid’s approach to youth employment in the Middle East and North Africa
• Management of the 0.7% ODA spending target, Part 1 and Part 2
• Tackling fraud in UK aid
• The UK’s approach to tackling modern slavery through the aid programme
• The changing nature of UK aid in Ghana
• How UK aid learns