Working through partners - 2008 onwards
In 2008 DFID decided to change its way of working in Bolivia. Overall spending in Latin America will increase by 15%, from some £84 million in 2007/8 to £97 million in 2010/11.
The greater part of the funding will be directed via the European Union and the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA).
We will be channelling the remainder of the funding largely through civil society – in recognition of their role at the frontline of tackling social exclusion and inequality – and through research institutions for work on climate change and poverty. After a competitive process, 12 agencies have been selected to receive additional funds through their Programme Partnership Agreement with DFID for work in Latin America . The agencies are: Action Aid, CAFOD, CARE, Christian Aid, HelpAge, HIV and AIDS Alliance, OXFAM, Plan, Progressio, Save the Children, World Vision, WWF.
The new emphasis on working through partners in the region – and the decision to focus scarce resources on Low Income Countries and fragile states in other regions – means that DFID will now no longer keep offices in the Andes. Our office in La Paz closed in September 2008. Our programme of working with the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank on governance and access to markets by poor people will also close in 2008/9.
The greater part of the funding will be directed via the European Union and the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA).
We will be channelling the remainder of the funding largely through civil society – in recognition of their role at the frontline of tackling social exclusion and inequality – and through research institutions for work on climate change and poverty. After a competitive process, 12 agencies have been selected to receive additional funds through their Programme Partnership Agreement with DFID for work in Latin America . The agencies are: Action Aid, CAFOD, CARE, Christian Aid, HelpAge, HIV and AIDS Alliance, OXFAM, Plan, Progressio, Save the Children, World Vision, WWF.
The new emphasis on working through partners in the region – and the decision to focus scarce resources on Low Income Countries and fragile states in other regions – means that DFID will now no longer keep offices in the Andes. Our office in La Paz closed in September 2008. Our programme of working with the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank on governance and access to markets by poor people will also close in 2008/9.
