The UK’s aid response to irregular migration in the central Mediterranean

UK aid interventions designed to address irregular migration through the central Mediterranean are currently some distance from making a measurable impact.

  1. Status: Completed
  2. Published: 10 March 2017
  3. Type: Rapid review
  4. Subject: Cross-government aid spend, Migration, UK aid funds
  5. Assessment: Unrated
  6. Location: Ethiopia, Libya, Nigeria
  7. Lead commissioner: Alison Evans

International Development Committee

Parliament’s International Development Committee (IDC), or its ICAI sub-committee, hold hearings on all ICAI reviews. You can watch the IDC hearing online.

ICAI follow-up

ICAI follows up on all of its reviews to check what progress has been made since publication. ICAI’s irregular migration follow-up report is available to read online.

Read the follow-up

Timeline

Approach

Published 6 October 2016

Evidence gathering

Complete

Review publication

Published 10 March 2017

Government response

Published 19 April 2017

Parliamentary scrutiny

IDC hearing 18 October 2017

ICAI follow-up

Published 29 June 2018