Draft International Development Official Development Assistance Target Bill

Author : Great Britain: Department for International Development
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780101779227
Total Pages : 20 pages
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Download or read book Draft International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Bill written by Great Britain: Department for International Development and published by . This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The international target for aid donor countries to spend 0.7% of their gross national income (GNI) on official development assistance (ODA) was first established in 1970 at the United Nations. The 0.7% target has been reaffirmed in many international agreements over the years. The UK has not yet met the target, but in 2004 the Government indicated its intention to achieve the target by 2013. Increasing global aid levels is a vital part of achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. Britain's aid budget has more than tripled since 1997 and its ODA/GNI ratio has risen from 0.26% in 1997 to 0.43% in 2008. Putting the 0.7% target into law will underline the importance attached by this Government and by Parliament to the achievement of this goal. The draft Bill places a duty on the Secretary of State to ensure that the target for ODA to amount to 0.7% of GNI is met by the UK in 2013 and subsequent years. This document contains the draft Bill, explanatory notes and an impact assessment.

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215545091
Total Pages : 92 pages
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Download or read book Draft International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Bill written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-03-23 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1970 the UN General Assembly called on the economically advanced countries to provide 0.7% of their income as Official Development Assistance (ODA) by the middle of the decade. In 2004 the UK committed to meet the target by 2013. The Government proposes to enshrine in law its commitment to meet the target in 2010 and each subsequent year. Whilst the legislation is widely welcomed the Committee remains uncertain that it will have the wider impact claimed. The accountability measures contained in the draft Bill weaken the commitment and provide the Government with an easy excuse for not meeting the target. The 2002 International Development Act stipulates that DFID's expenditure on ODA should have poverty reduction as its primary objective. With increasing pressure to find additional finance for responding to climate change or to new types of security threats, there is a danger that increased amounts of UK ODA will be used for purposes only marginally related to poverty reduction. The Government must take appropriate steps to guard against this whether or not the Bill becomes law. Ultimately the Committee supports the 0.7% goal and feels the UK should maintain and build on its reputation as a donor.

Author : Great Britain: Department for International Development
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780101786621
Total Pages : 13 pages
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Download or read book Government Response to the International Development Committee Report on Draft International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Bill written by Great Britain: Department for International Development and published by . This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dated March 2010. Government response to Cm.7792 (ISBN 9780101779227)

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords
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ISBN 13 : 9780108000171
Total Pages : 8 pages
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Download or read book International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Bill written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords
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ISBN 13 : 9780108559921
Total Pages : 8 pages
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Download or read book International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Bill written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Great Britain
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ISBN 13 : 9780105400011
Total Pages : 8 pages
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Download or read book International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Act 2015 written by Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Royal Assent, 26th March 2015. An Act to make provision about the meeting by the United Kingdom of the target for official development assistance (ODA) to constitute 0.7 per cent of gross national income; to make provision for independent verification that ODA is spent efficiently and effectively. Explanatory notes to assist in the understanding of the Act will be available separately

Author : Great Britain
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ISBN 13 : 9780105600015
Total Pages : 6 pages
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Download or read book International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Act 2015 written by Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-08 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These notes refer to the International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Act 2015(c. 12) (ISBN 9780105400011) which received Royal assent on 26th March 2015.

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215556240
Total Pages : 92 pages
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Download or read book Department for International Development annual report & resource accounts 2009 - 10 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: International Development Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Carol Chi Ngang
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004467904
Total Pages : 433 pages
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Download or read book The Right to Development in Africa written by Carol Chi Ngang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Right to Development in Africa, Carol Chi Ngang provides a conceptual analysis of the human right to development with a decolonial critique of the requirement to have recourse to development cooperation as a mechanism for its realisation. In his argumentation, the setbacks to development in Africa are not necessarily caused by the absence of development assistance but principally as a result of the lack of an operational model to steer the processes for development towards the highest attainable standard of living for the peoples of Africa. Basing on the decolonial and capability theories, he posits for a shift in development thinking from dependence on development assistance to an alternative model suited to Africa, which he defines as the right to development governance.

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Liaison Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215544742
Total Pages : 164 pages
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Download or read book The work of committees in 2008-09 written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Liaison Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: work of committees In 2008-09 : Second report of session 2009-10, report, together with formal minutes and Appendices