Management of the 0.7% ODA spending target

The government’s approach to managing its aid-spending target has become increasingly effective and well-coordinated across government – but making the process more flexible in future could reduce the “significant” impact of major economic shocks.

  1. Status: Completed
  2. Published: 24 November 2020
  3. Type: Rapid review
  4. Subject: 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 management of the 0.7% spending target review is now available to read online.

Read the government response

Timeline

Approach

Published 20 August 2020

Evidence gathering

Complete

Review

Published 24 November 2020

Government response

Published 22 January 2021

ICAI follow-up

Published 30 June 2022

Further follow-up

Published 18 July 2023