§ Mr. Bowen Wellsasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how the new project framework systems referred to on page 58, paragraph 37 of volume II of the "Government's Expenditure Plans" (Cmnd. 9701-11) differs from the aid framework used by his Department in previous years.
§ Mr. RaisonThe aid framework is the planning mechanism whereby aid resources in total are allocated to specific uses and programmes, multilateral and bilateral, over a three-year forward period. It will continue to operate as in the past.
The project framework, which was introduced recently into the Overseas Development Administration, is a new approach to project planning and implementation. Its main purpose is to set out in a clear and logical way, at the time a project is proposed, the link between the resources put into the project and what it is expected to achieve, in terms of both detailed and broader objectives.