The Department for International Development has released its first Multilateral Development Review since 2011, outlining priorities for future multilateral spending and identifying strengths and weaknesses among its 37 multilateral partners.
Multilateral organizations The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the Commonwealth Secretariat and the Caribbean Development Bank took a beating in the spending review, while health-focused organizations including the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance drew praise from the agency, which currently spends 40 percent of its 14 billion pound aid budget through multilateral organizations.
Going forward, DfID will expand the use of performance-based payment schemes across its multilateral delivery partners. According to the report, paying for results is meant to incentivize better collaboration among U.N. agencies, which it said suffer from in-fighting and overlap.
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Molly Anders is a former U.K. correspondent for Devex. Based in London, she reports on development finance trends with a focus on British and European institutions. She is especially interested in evidence-based development and women’s economic empowerment, as well as innovative financing for the protection of migrants and refugees. Molly is a former Fulbright Scholar and studied Arabic in Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Morocco.
