UK aid’s alignment with the Paris Agreement
A rapid review that examines how the UK government is aligning all its official development assistance (ODA) with the Paris Agreement, following its commitment to do so in 2019.
International Development Committee
A hearing is held by Parliament’s International Development Committee (IDC) or their ICAI sub-committee for most ICAI reviews.
Watch the IDC hearing for this review.
ICAI follow-up
Approximately one year after we publish our reports, we follow up on the steps the government has taken in response to our recommendations. This process is a key link in the accountability chain, providing Parliament and the public with an account of how well government departments have responded to ICAI reviews.
Through our follow-up review, we found that the government has committed to a 2023 deadline for ensuring that all new bilateral programmes are compliant with the Paris climate agreement. However, action was inadequate on reporting publicly on progress towards aligning all official development assistance (ODA) with the Paris Agreement on Climate Change (recommendation 2), building capacity and capabilities for achieving Paris alignment across government (recommendation 3) and deepening collaborative partnerships on Paris alignment with major developing countries (recommendation 4). We will therefore return to these three recommendations next year.
Read the follow-up review online or download the summary follow-up report.
Further follow-up
We will return to three of the recommendations for this review again in next year’s follow-up process in 2024.