• "DfID and the Foreign Office and the defence ministry work increasingly closely together, " he said.

    BBC: Aid money could go to defence - David Cameron

  • DfID Secretary Andrew Mitchell said the epidemic was fast becoming a crisis with millions potentially at risk.

    BBC: UK to spend ?2m combating cholera in Sierra Leone

  • DfID plans to ship anti-cholera drugs and water purification kits to Sierra Leone.

    BBC: UK to spend ?2m combating cholera in Sierra Leone

  • Mr Alexander, now shadow international development secretary, said that the creation of DfID was "one of Labour's proudest achievements".

    BBC: International Development questions

  • The Multilateral Aid Review (MAR), conducted by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), assesses 43 multilateral organisations, including UNESCO.

    UNESCO: UKNC welcomes UK decision to remain in

  • DfID was recently criticised by MPs on the Public Accounts Committee for not doing enough to tackle allegations of fraud.

    BBC: Economic Affairs Committee

  • The report also said 14 of DFID's 22 priority countries were on track to achieve its enrolment goal by 2015.

    BBC: UK aid for foreign schools 'gets disappointing results'

  • Ms Greening said that DFID would continue to provide advisers to the Afghan government to increase transparency and eliminate corruption.

    BBC: Afghanistan statement

  • Mr Mitchell nonetheless rates DfID the best aid department in the world.

    ECONOMIST: Foreign aid in a recession

  • The Department for International Development (DfID) is successfully getting money to poor people, but needs to focus more on how cost-effectively they are delivered.

    BBC: Viewing guide: The pick of the week ahead in Parliament

  • The committee's chair Lord MacGregor questioned why the Department for International Development (DfID) appeared to be exempt from the spending cuts that were affecting other departments.

    BBC: Economic Affairs Committee

  • Gareth Thomas, a DfID minister, disputes the notion of a pro-aid political consensus, arguing that prospective Tory MPs do not share their leadership's enthusiasm for it.

    ECONOMIST: Foreign aid in a recession

  • Other UNESCO contributions to DFID priorities are acknowledged in the Review, including monitoring progress on Education for All, vital input to climate debates and supporting gender equality.

    UNESCO: UKNC welcomes UK decision to remain in

  • Eradicating poverty is the focus of Westminster's Department for International Development (DFID) - and the Scottish Parliament has also formed its own cross-party group on international development.

    BBC: Scottish moves on global poverty

  • Sir Robert criticised the role of the Department for International Development (DFiD), saying some of its officials "could barely conceal their moral disdain" for the military action.

    BBC: British troops on patrol in Basra

  • Sir Malcolm said that while DfID would not be able to maintain a base in Helmand province when UK troops withdraw, aid projects must continue through local partners.

    BBC: Afghanistan may never be 'viable state' warn MPs

  • "CDC's pay arrangements, as set out in conjunction with DFID, are deliberately designed to attract the best investment professionals to work in often very challenging markets, " he said.

    BBC: Poverty chief 'paid nearly ?1m'

  • It also provides a link to DFID and international agencies.

    BBC: Scottish moves on global poverty

  • And though DfID will survive as a separate department, it will be bound more closely to the FCO and the Ministry of Defence by a proposed national security council.

    ECONOMIST: Foreign aid in a recession

  • He called on the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) to help developing countries improve data collection and extend access to free medication, as well as midwifery and obstetric care.

    BBC: Last Updated: Sunday, 2 March 2008, 00:25 GMT

  • Also in October 2012, the GIIN announced a new partnership with the UK Department for International Development (DFID) to develop and grow the impact investing market in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.

    FORBES: Connecting the Global Community of Leading Impact Investors: Global Impact Investing Network

  • The International Development Committee (at 9.30am) is looking at Global Food Security, with evidence from Transport Minister Norman Baker, International Development minister Lynne Featherstone, and experts including DFID's Food and Nutrition Security Team.

    BBC: Week ahead

  • "It is clear that there is still no minister with specific responsibility for ensuring that there is coherence across the MOD, the FCO and DfID in efforts to combat violence against women internationally, " she said.

    BBC: Kinnock calls for global action on abuse of women

  • But following what a DfID spokesman called "a day of intense activity searching for an alternative aircraft", a C17 military transport aeroplane was located which is expected to leave from RAF Brize Norton on Friday night.

    BBC: UK rescue team head to Indonesia

  • "It is deeply worrying DFID is failing to demand real evidence of the impact of CDC in reducing poverty and that it failed to keep tabs on executive pay, " said shadow international development spokesman Andrew Mitchell.

    BBC: Poverty chief 'paid nearly ?1m'

  • Both parties in the coalition of Tories and Liberal Democrats had vowed to preserve aid (less than 1% of total public spending) from savage spending cuts, although DfID may make token efforts to trim administrative costs.

    ECONOMIST: Reforming foreign aid

  • He argued that "maximum value for money from every pound" would be achieved by introducing "greater transparency, rigorous independent evaluation and an unremitting focus on results" to the work of the Department for International Development (DfID).

    BBC: International Development questions

  • However, there are clearly risks involved in giving aid to others to administer - however much scrutiny of its books DfID allows, and however closely it monitors how governments and UN bodies, for example, spend its cash.

    BBC: Liam Fox row: Where does the UK's aid money go?

  • Just as Labour's aid policy owes much to the party's Christian socialist tradition (Douglas Alexander, the DfID secretary, is, like Mr Brown, the son of a Presbyterian minister) the Tory right has a missionary bent of its own.

    ECONOMIST: Foreign aid in a recession

  • Partly because his budget is an unusual "ring-fenced" one, while other departments are being cut, the head of DfID - International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell - constantly emphasises his quest for value for money, for both aid recipients and the British taxpayer.

    BBC: Liam Fox row: Where does the UK's aid money go?

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