International Development Committee - Second Report
DFID Annual Report 2008

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Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 10 February 2009.

CONTENTS

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Terms of Reference

Summary

1  Introduction

2  Prospects for achieving the Millennium Development Goals

The Millennium Development Goals

The Call to Action and the MDGs summit

The High Level Event on the MDGs

The MDGs and the economic downturn

3  Progress on specific Millennium Development Goals

Malaria

Maternal health

Education

Women's rights and the MDGs

Nutrition

4  DFID's expenditure on development assistance

DFID's performance against commitments on Official Development Assistance expenditure

Progress towards the 0.7% target

5  What is DFID's expenditure achieving?

Evaluating aid impact

Independent Advisory Committee on Development Impact

IACDI's plans for improving DFID's evaluation work

Resources available for evaluation

Independence of evaluations

Consultants

Implementation of lessons learned

Evaluation of the impact of budget support

DFID's analysis of its impact on poverty reduction

DFID staffing levels

6  Middle-income countries

India

7  Governance and parliamentary strengthening

Governance and Transparency Fund

Strengthening parliaments in developing countries

8  Conclusion

Annex: The Millennium Development Goals and targets

Conclusions and recommendations

Formal Minutes

Witnesses

List of written evidence

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament

Oral and Written Evidence

Wednesday 9 July 2008

Tuesday 15 July 2008

Thursday 30 October 2008

Written Evidence

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Prepared 19 February 2009