DFID Annual Report 2007: Development on the Record
How well is DFID working? What are we doing to help the billion people around
the globe who live in extreme poverty? How are we fighting the HIV/AIDS epidemic
that is ravaging Africa? Each year, over ten million children in the developing
world die before their fifth birthday – what are we doing to stop this
unnecessary loss of life? These are questions that need to be asked, and
deserve a straight answer. DFID’s Annual Report 2007: Development on the Record sets
out what we did between April 2006 and March 2007 to bring about changes for the
better in the developing world.
The report gives a full account of where we spent public money over the last
year, and where we have pledged to spend it in coming years, to tackle the
challenges that we face. Challenges like improving education in Mozambique,
where last year we committed £150 million to see that more children complete
their primary schooling. Challenges like reducing infant and maternal mortality
in India, where we contributed £252 million to a programme that will save over a
million lives each year. Challenges like supplying aid to fragile places like
Sudan, where we put forward £73 million to help the relief effort, and to places
affected by natural disasters, such as Indonesia, where we gave over £5 million
following the 2006 earthquake. Many other examples from the last year show how DFID’s work is making a real difference to people’s lives.
Last year was an historic one for development. It was the year the UK and the
rest of the world began to make good on the promises of 2005’s G8 Summit.
Development on the Record is a comprehensive account of a milestone year for DFID
and a new type of annual departmental report, with more attention given to how
effectively and transparently aid has been delivered. It is a record of the work
that we have done, and a statement of the work that we will do, to keep our
promise of ensuring better lives for the world’s poor.
Copies of the report are available from
The
Stationery Office priced £40, Tel: 0870 600 5522, Email:
book.orders@theso.co.uk, quoting
HC514.
Contents
Read the Report online below (each part is in PDF format):
- Contents, foreword and summary
(874 kb)
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Reducing poverty in Africa
- Chapter 3: Reducing poverty in Asia
- Chapter 4: Reducing poverty in Europe, Central Asia, Latin America,
the Caribbean and the Middle East- Chapter 5: Making bilateral aid more effective
- Chapter 6: Making the multilateral system more effective
- Chapter 7: Fragile states, conflict and crises
- Chapter 8: Environment, climate change and natural resources
- Chapter 9: Working with others on policies beyond aid
- Chapter 10: Building an effective organisation
- Annexes: Expenditure, Millennium Development Goals, Public Service Agreement and more
