Multilateral Aid Review
A systematic assessment to examine the value for money that we get from putting our funding through multilateral organisations, and to help decide future funding levels to these organisations.
The Multilateral Aid Review (MAR) 2015 has now commenced; it will be published in 2016. The multilateral landscape has changed since the MAR (2011) and our multilateral strategy now needs to be refreshed to reflect these changes.
The 2011 MAR was the first systematic assessment to examine the value for money that we get from putting our funding through multilateral organisations. The subsequent MAR Update, completed in 2013, scrutinised the improvements multilateral organisations had made since 2011.
Multilateral organisations play a key role in emergencies and in reducing poverty around the world. They add to and complement the work of the UK government. All of the multilateral organisations DFID funds must provide real value for money for the UK taxpayer.
The MAR (2011) provided us with the evidence needed to take decisions about how best to provide funding through the multilateral organisations in order to make the greatest possible effect on poverty. The result was that we ceased giving core funding to 4 multilateral organisations and placed a further 4 into special measures. We also identified a set of reform priorities for each agency to address to strengthen their performance going forward. The Update showed that the advances made by the multilaterals against these reform priorities had been steady, but there was still room for improvement.
The MAR (2015) will assess all the agencies covered by the Update plus the Green Climate Fund and the Global Green Growth Institute. It will be published in the spring of 2016.
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