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Confirmed: Our foreign aid fuels corruption - Official watchdog's verdict on aid spending that Camer; Camerons ringfenced aid fuels rampant corruption
Topic Started: Nov 1 2014, 11:57 PM (52 Views)
Boxter
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Projects funded by billions of UK cash increase opportunities for bribery
Damning report concluded huge amounts of UK aid money is being wasted
In Nepal, the poor are being pushed 'towards corrupt practices', experts say
Work to stop police bribery in Nigeria left locals more prone to paying bribes
The PM has defended commitment to spend 0.7% of income on overseas aid
Report gave Department for International Development 'amber-red' rating
Labour said International Development minister was 'asleep at the wheel'
Comes after it emerged human rights abuses in Ethiopia worsened during period of UK funding

By Daniel Martin, Daily Mail Whitehall Correspondent

Published: 00:02, 31 October 2014 | Updated: 13:15, 31 October 2014
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The billions Britain pours into foreign aid are actually doing harm by making corruption worse in many parts of the world, a damning report reveals.

It says projects funded by UK cash are increasing opportunities for bribery.

In some areas, they are even pushing poor people ‘towards corrupt practices’. After we spent millions on a scheme to tackle police bribery in Nigeria, locals said they were even more likely to have to pay backhanders, the report found.

It concluded that huge amounts of UK aid money is being wasted because we are either funding corrupt programmes directly or not doing enough to tackle the culture of bribery in many countries.

The findings come just days after it emerged human rights abuses in Ethiopia – where security forces are accused of burning, torturing and raping citizens – had got worse during a four-year period when the UK gave the country more than £1billion.

They will be hugely embarrassing for David Cameron, who has repeatedly been forced to defend his controversial commitment to spend 0.7 per cent of national income on overseas aid despite fierce opposition from his backbenchers.

The report was carried out by the Independent Commission for Aid Impact, the watchdog set up to scrutinise the Department for International Development.

Giving DfiD a poor ‘amber-red’ rating, it criticised the fact that only £22million of its £10.3billion aid budget was targeted specifically at fighting corruption.

The study found the department was not ‘up to the challenge’ of tackling corruption and, in many cases, help was not effectively targeted at the poor.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2815115/Confirmed-foreign-aid-fuels-corruption-Official-watchdog-s-verdict-aid-spending-Cameron-defiantly-ring-fenced.html#ixzz3Hre5GRvp
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Steve K
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Ah yes a new poster who maybe has not realised that the Daily Mail really isn't even fit for budgies in cages to shit on.

The Mail article (and the OP) specifically says "It concluded that huge amounts of UK aid money is being wasted" But here's the actual report they refer to:
http://icai.independent.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/DFIDs-Approach-to-Anti-Corruption-and-its-Impact-on-the-Poor-FINAL.pdf

How strange that the word wasted or waste does not even appear in the report which is actually a report specifically about just the DFID efforts on corruption.
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I think that's called nit picking and symantics the bottom line is the tax payer has rumbled Cameron once again taking us for another ride.

If the taxpayer was a species this coalition would have hunted them to extinction by now!
Edited by Boxter, Nov 2 2014, 08:11 PM.
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Steve K
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No it's the DM getting it wrong again taking a small facet of DFID and pretending it's the whole.

But they got you with it
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