Transparency, Impact and Value for Money – The work of the ICAI and how it impacts INGOs

Good morning and thank you for inviting me here today. I have the privilege of being the Chief Commissioner of the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (or ICAI). We are a relatively new organisation, launched in May last year, tasked with independently scrutinising UKaid. I am here talk to you today about transparency, impact and value for money in the context of international development.

The last couple of months have been a crucial period for ICAI as we published our first four reports in November and we are now preparing to publish our next reports in the coming weeks.

ICAI was established to evaluate aid independently. When the Government came into power in May 2010 it pledged that the increase in aid spending would be matched by a commitment to greater transparency and increased scrutiny. The Government believed, as do I, that public confidence in the credibility and impact of the aid programme necessitates robust, independent reviews ofUKaid.

We believe that ICAI is unique in the development world. Unique in independence, unique in[...]

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