Letter to the Chairman from the Rt Hon
David Miliband MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth
Affairs, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
I have pleasure in enclosing a coy of the 2006-07
Annual Report for the FCO's Global Opportunities Fund along with
copies for each of your FAC colleagues.[6]
This Report will be laid before Parliament on Monday 4 February
(and is embargoed until then).
Since its inception in 2003, the fund has developed
as tool to support our policy priorities. We have sought to maximise
the impact of our modest funds by targeting our efforts where
we can make the most difference, and looking to leverage funding
from others.
Using the fund, the FCO is able to work as an
active partner with a range of stakeholders to deliver projects
that help develop policies, encourage reform or build institutional
capacity in ways that support the UK's objectives. We have active
programmes in such key areas as Climate Change, Counter Terrorism,
Afghan Counter Narcotics and Engaging with the Islamic World.
As we move forward, we will focus our efforts
more tightly on the FCO's main policy priorities that I wrote
to you about on 7 December, seeking to leverage more funding and
deliver more ambitious projects.
David Miliband
1 February 2008
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