Asked by: Lord Empey (Ulster Unionist Party - Life peer)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how much aid from the Department for International Development's budget has been made available to Ethiopia, either through direct or indirect contributions in the last three years for which figures are available; and what were the main purposes of each contribution.
Answered by Lord Bates
DFID budget spend in Ethiopia for the last three years for which figures are available is detailed in our published Annual Report and Accounts, and shown in the table below. Further information on DFID’s current programme can be found in the DFID Ethiopia Profile, published in July 2017 (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dfid-ethiopia-profile-july-2017)
Year | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
Bilateral Spend (£) | 284,298,764 | 338,850,044 | 340,387,168 |
Multilateral spend (£) | 241,688,266 | 223,467,308 | 137,118,616 |
Centrally Managed Programme Spend (£) | 40,930,173 | 48,566,779 | 40,698,603 |
Total (£) | 566,917,203 | 610,884,132 | 518,204,387 |
DFID’s programme is designed to help Ethiopia in transforming into a stable, industrialised and more resilient country, able to self-finance itself out of poverty and harness the potential of its youth. As of March 2017 we had supported 1.2 million children to gain a decent education, helped 755,000 people access clean water and/or sanitation and reached 5.7 million people through nutrition related interventions. DFID’s portfolio in Ethiopia also focusses on helping to catalyse over £500 million of new investment, generating more jobs, and creating opportunities for British business in one of the fastest growing economies in the world. DFID is investing significantly to tackle migration issues and help refugees have a long-term life in Ethiopia (host to the second largest refugee population in Africa), while reducing incentives for onward migration to Europe and diminishing the influence of criminal gangs and people smugglers. And DFID has played a leading role in the response to ongoing severe drought in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa, where our humanitarian funding will support over 1.2 million people with emergency food rations, give 100,000 people improved access to water and sanitation, and help 500,000 pastoralists with emergency livestock support to prevent them falling into destitution.
Asked by: Lord Empey (Ulster Unionist Party - Life peer)
Question to the Department for International Development:
Her Majesty's Government whether they have provided any resources to persons or organisations in Libya from the budget of the Department for International Development; and if so, to which projects those resources were allocated.
Answered by Lord Bates
The Department for International Development (DFID) supports Libyan authorities and civil society organisations to provide humanitarian assistance to vulnerable Libyans, migrants and refugees, working with trusted humanitarian agencies including the International Organisation for Migration (IoM). In addition, DFID is funding a project with the World Bank to improve public financial management in Libya’s key financial institutions, as part of the cross-Departmental Conflict, Security and Stability Fund for Libya.
Asked by: Lord Empey (Ulster Unionist Party - Life peer)
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they are satisfied that contractors engaged by them to deliver international development programmes are providing value for money.
Answered by Lord Bates
DFID achieves value for money in its contracted work through effective procurement practices, robust contracts, active market engagement and its contract management processes, but we can do more.
The Department is conducting a Supplier Review which will (amongst other things) look at ways to broaden DFID’s contractor base improving competition, and will also examine how to achieve greater cost transparency and scrutiny of costs to ensure further value for money in its programmes.