Revised Technical Note for DFID's Efficiency Programme

27 March 2007

In line with other UK departments, DFID has a comprehensive efficiency programme, through which we are committed to delivering £420 million of sustainable efficiencies by 2007/08. These will be achieved through more effective spending and improvements to the management of projects, as well as through more streamlined processes and systems as a result of DFID's business change programme - Catalyst.

DFID's efficiency programme is broken down into a number of targets:

• increase the percentage of our country programmes spent on programme based approaches
• increase the value for money from programme procurement
• improve bilateral project/programme performance;
• increase DFID's contribution to low income countries through European Commission aid;
• increase the amount of support we give to the International Development Association;
• reduce our administration costs.

An Efficiency Technical Note details the targets, rationale, calculation methodology and monitoring systems behind each government department's efficiency programme. These have recently undergone a process of revision and updating.

DFID's revised Efficiency Technical Note(72 kb) includes papers on the evidence base for the increased effectiveness of programme based approaches (Efficiency Technical Note: Annex A(39 kb)) and on the calculation methodology for the portfolio quality target (Efficiency Technical Note: Annex B(49 kb)), and International Development Association (IDA) (Efficiency Technical Note: Annex C(81 kb))

HM Treasury's website provides more information on the Efficiency Programme across government.

Last Updated 26 March 2007

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