Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 31 January 2017 to Question 61410, on developing countries: children, how her Department measures the effectiveness of humanitarian assistance which is not included in her Department's annual targets.

DFID programmes are assessed by annual reviews during the course of the intervention and again by project completion reports when they conclude to test their effectiveness.

In 2016 the UK’s Multilateral Development Review systematically assessed the performance and effectiveness of 38 multilateral institutions, including humanitarian partners who respond to crises involving vulnerable people including children.

Agencies were scored against results, value for money, risk and assurance, transparency, accountability, alongside their relevance in meeting today’s most urgent challenges. This is a more rigorous measurement of humanitarian impact than analysis based on annual targets. In response, 30% of our core funding to UN humanitarian organisations will be dependent on improved results and effectiveness.