When the Coalition came into power it set the Department of International Development (DFID) a target of allocating 30% of the UK’s bilateral official development assistance (the term devised by the OECD and its member countries to determine whether funding or other support counts as aid or not) by 2014-15. In many ways this was…
The Intergovernmental Organisations Select Committee will publish its first report tomorrow. The report deals with the threat of infectious diseases and the intergovernmental organisations ability to deal with them. Meanwhile I have been very frustrated because the Liaison Committee which decides what select committees should exist and in what form met and agreed that the…
