The UK government aims to maximise the impact of UK aid on the world’s poorest people. Every pound or dollar of aid we spend must have the greatest possible impact on reducing global poverty.
There are four key elements to maximising the impact of aid:
1. Efficient and effective allocation: aid should be directed to the countries and regions where it will have the most impact on the poor.
2. Ensuring the best outcomes: aid should be spent on things that save lives and reduce poverty.
3. Monitoring results and accountability: donors and partners need to know whether aid is delivering poverty reduction. They must also be able to hold each other to account and learn how to make aid more effective.
4. Promoting long term changes: aid must be used to build effective, accountable states that empower their citizens to take charge of their own development.
DFID’s aid helps lift at least 3 million people permanently out of poverty every year. In addition, the UK has either already met, or is on track to meet, the international targets set out in the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness.
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