Development co-operation reviews : United Kingdom 1997

Summary and conclusions --
ch. 1. New policy framework and orientations --
A.A new government --
B. From the Overseas Development Administration (ODA) to the Department for International Development (DFID) --
C. Aid budget prospects --
1. Overall ODA budget --
2. Multilateral commitments --
D. Key policy directions --
1. Focus on poverty --
2. Coherence and internal co-ordination --
3. Environment and natural resources --
4. Good government and human rights --
Chapter 2. Features of the United Kingdom aid programme and aid management --
A. Major features --
1. Instruments --
2. Key themes related to reform: capacity development, technical co-operation and the social sector including gender --
3. Process projects --
4. Conflict, Peace and Development --
5. Emergency and humanitarian aid --
6. Aid co-ordination, development strategies and country strategies --
7. Aid efficiency, effectiveness and results --
8. Multilateral policies --
9. Debt reorganisation, forgiveness --
10. Public opinion, information and development education --
B. Aid management --
1. Organisation --
2. Decentralisation --
3. Budget system --
4. Staffing --
5. Information systems (IS) --
6. Aid procedures : the office instructions --
Chapter 3. Other elements of the United Kingdom programme --
A. Aid and Trade Provision (ATP) and mixed credits --
B. Private sector development and Commonwealth Development Corporation --
C. Non governmental organisations --
D. British Partnership Scheme (BPS) --
E. British Council --
F. The Commonwealth --
G. CEECs/NIS --
The Know How Fund and a new strategy for transition countries --
Chapter 4. Basic profiles --
A. ODA volume and outlook --
B. Composition and sectoral distribution of aid --
C. Geographical distribution --
D. Procurement, tied aid and associated finance.