Department of State Development

Department of State Development
Author: Department of State Development
Publisher:
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2016-10-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9780987201867

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Annual report of the Department of State Development, Government of South Australia

Department for International Development annual report and resource accounts 2010-11 and business plan 2011-15

Department for International Development annual report and resource accounts 2010-11 and business plan 2011-15
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2012-03-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780215042910

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While DFID's total budget is increasing, the Department will both restrict operating costs to 2% by 2014-15 and reduce its administrative costs by a third in real terms, from £128 million in 2010-11 to £94 million by 2014-15. This report warns that capping operational costs and staff numbers may not reduce overall costs or improve effective delivery of development assistance. The International Development Committee also raises concerns that cost pressures are driving DFID to use consultants to deliver its programmes, rather than in-house expertise. The Department spends £450 million on technical cooperation per year. Much of this is good work, yet it was unclear exactly what this money was spent on, or how effective it was and the extent to which external providers were used. DFID needs to improve its assessment of which projects and services it should use consultants for; and assess more carefully the use of consultants to manage the Department's own delivery programmes. In its efforts to reduce administrative spending DFID might be 'exporting' these costs to other organisations, including NGOs and multilateral aid organisations, with higher real administration costs. The Department should assess the best and most effective way to deliver development assistance as it may be able to do it more cheaply and effectively than external organisations. The report recommends that the Department improves its tracking of and reporting on the total cost of administering its aid programme with the aim of quantifying how much aid actually ends up reaching recipients.

Annual Report

Annual Report
Author: New Jersey. Department of Conservation and Development
Publisher:
Total Pages: 664
Release: 1916
Genre: Natural resources
ISBN:

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Department for International Development annual report & resource accounts 2009 - 10

Department for International Development annual report & resource accounts 2009 - 10
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2011-02-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780215556240

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In the 2010 Comprehensive Spending Review the Coalition Government announced its decision to achieve the internationally agreed target of providing 0.7 percent of Gross National Income as ODA from 2013. This will involve spending an additional 2.5 billion pounds in 2013-14 to make the total DFID budget 11.3 billion pounds in that year. There will be a large increase in spending on fragile and conflict affected states and it will be difficult to ensure that every pound is well spent in such war-torn environments. When scrutinising DFID's accounts the MPs were also surprised to discover that the Pope's visit was paid for in part by money supposed to be for overseas development aid (ODA). The Committee expects a response from the Government as to what the £1.85 million, transferred to the Foreign Office for the papal visit, was spent on and an explanation as to how this was ODA compliant. The Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) announced reductions in DFID's running costs to 2% of the total budget. If achieved, this would make DFID the most cost-efficient development organisation in the world.This is to be achieved by a large reduction in back office administration costs (which excludes front-line staff) of £34 million over the CSR period. The International Development Committee supports the proposals to make savings in back office staff, but the MPs are warning that Ministers must ensure that reduced administration budgets do not affect the ability to deliver aid programmes on the ground. While declining as a share of total costs, running costs will increase in real terms over the next four years because the total budget will rise so much.