Bangladesh
International Development
Nick de Bois (Enfield North, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what assessment she has made of the Independent Commission for Aid Impact's report from November 2011 on her Department's climate change programme in Bangladesh.
Alan Duncan (Minister of State, International Development; Rutland and Melton, Conservative)
The Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) report on DFIDBangladesh's climate change programme made five recommendations, listed as follows, which the programme team is implementing. DFID Bangladesh provides an update every six months to Ministers, which feeds into an organisation-wide progress update to the International Development Committee on the implementation of all the ICAI review recommendations.
Recommendation 1:
DFID should ensure that organisations implementing UK aid are selected competitively and managed according to clear performance targets, set out in a service level agreement.
Recommendation 2:
DFID should ensure that all UK resources that support Bangladesh's response to climate change are managed in a co-ordinated and integrated manner.
Recommendation 3:
DFID should support monitoring by local and international civil society organisations of the activities and achievements of the Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan.
Recommendation 4:
DFID in Bangladesh should use the programme to fund research and activities to address migration caused by climate change over the next 20 to 30 years. It should support building capacity to deal with such effects of climate change.
Recommendation 5:
DFID should plan more explicitly for what will happen at the end of the programme. In particular, more effort is needed to build capacity within government to enable activities and administration to be led by local, not international, institutions.
The detail of how we are addressing the recommendations are available to view at:
