Case study: Online consultation - DFID Digital Strategy 2012-2015

Two years ago, DFID ministers commissioned a series of aid reviews with the aim of informing strategic policy making for the future. The bilateral and multilateral aid reviews, alongside the humanitarian and emergency response review together set out how we will work in partnership with individual countries, with international institutions, and how we will respond to disasters.

These reviews were carried out in a way well publicised across the international development community, using a combination of face to face, media driven and social media channels. Online forums fed into the debate alongside contributions from open meetings and more traditional written submissions. We are now in a period of implementation as we focus the aid programme around delivering the commitments made as a part of these reviews.