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ICAI finds the newly implemented PrOF has been an important tool in managing aid programmes, but full levels of compliance and awareness are yet to be achieved

Posted on 27 Apr 2023 by Gemma Kinnear

…compliance monitoring; and conducting periodic consultations to help incorporate new learning and international good practice. A rapid review of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’s (FCDO) Programme Operating Framework (PrOF)…

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Brexit, COVID-19 and budget reductions put extraordinary pressure on UK aid since 2019

Posted on 13 Sep 2023 by Lizzie Palmer

…six months. The merger of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and the Department for International Development (DFID) in September 2020 – when the pandemic was still at its height…

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Aid budget reductions, pandemic and FCDO merger created a more favourable environment for fraud risk 

Posted on 26 Mar 2024 by Neala Hickey

…UK-managed programmes, including those not run by FCDO. Budget reductions, the COVID-19 pandemic and the departmental merger that created the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) led to an environment…

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Use of the aid budget to host refugees in the UK rises to £4.3bn

Posted on 10 Apr 2024 by Lizzie Palmer

…the negative impact on the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), which oversees the aid budget and has had to absorb the Home Office’s rising costs, had been less pronounced…

Posted in Press releases

New review – The UK’s Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative

Posted on 9 Jan 2020 by Gemma Kinnear

…turned into practical action that makes a real difference.” The cross-departmental initiative is led by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) with contributions from the Department for International Development (DFID)…

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ICAI Annual Report 2020-2021

Posted on 7 Jul 2021 by Gemma Kinnear

…changing UK aid landscape following the merger of the Department for International Development (DFID) and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and the COVID-19 pandemic causing major in-year changes to…

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Home Office asylum costs could no longer be counted as aid under Illegal Migration Act

Posted on 6 Sep 2023 by Lizzie Palmer

…eligible to come from the aid budget overseen by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), a new analysis finds today (Wednesday 6 September). The Home Office is not yet…

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ICAI rapid review finds poor value for money in UK aid to refugees in the UK

Posted on 29 Mar 2023 by Gemma Kinnear

…accommodation have absorbed a growing proportion of the limited budget for aid, making it an inefficient way of providing humanitarian assistance. ICAI has found that the Home Office has not…

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UK aid to refugees in the UK

Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s and the British Council’s use of aid in response to the Arab Spring

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