Rapid review of DFID’s Smart Rules

A rapid review of DFID's procedures for programme management, the Smart Rules, to see how they respond to the issues that we have raised in our 38 reports to date.

  1. Status: Completed
  2. Published: 16 December 2014
  3. Type: Rapid review
  4. Subject: Government processes and systems
  5. Assessment: Unrated
  6. Lead commissioner: Mark Foster

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 this review is available to read online.

Timeline

Review publication

Published 16 December 2014

Government response

Published 19 January 2015

ICAI follow-up

Published 30 June 2016