Overseas Aid
International Development
Tom Greatrex (Rutherglen and Hamilton West, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what assessment she has made of the effectiveness of the Aid Match scheme.
Alan Duncan (Minister of State, International Development; Rutland and Melton, Conservative)
UK
Aid Match was launched as a one-year pilot in June 2011. The scheme has
been a successful mechanism for backing public choices on the use of
aid, by matching their donations to charity appeals, pound for pound. To
date 16 organisations have successfully applied to the scheme, with
eight appeals completed, and eight currently in progress. The money
raised will support a wide variety of development projects and
programmes, all designed to deliver important, measurable improvements
to the lives of some of the world's poorest people.
