Setting the Compass for Eliminating World Poverty: The Department for International Development 1997-2003

Ranil Dissanayake and Mark Lowcock
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Mark Lowcock: Center for Global Development

No 310, Policy Papers from Center for Global Development

Abstract: Created in 1997, the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) had by 2003 become one of the world’s most influential organisations in international development. This paper explains how that was brought about through the combination of effective political leadership, wider government backing, the setting and retention of clear objectives behind which growing resources were rigorously deployed, the employment of large numbers of capable and motivated staff, and the effective use of analysis and evidence in advocacy and partnerships with others. This period was one in which the conditions were favourable for global development, and while not all of DFID’s efforts to promote international development were successful, much progress was made. DFID’s overall contribution to improving the living conditions and life experiences of people in many of the world’s poorest countries in these years cannot be quantified, but it is likely to have been significant.

Pages: 63 pages
Date: 2023-10-24
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