§ Mr. BercowTo ask the Secretary of State for International Development what recent assessment she has made of the value for money achieved by the Financial Management Academy Project in Bangladesh. [49189]
§ Clare ShortThe objective of this project is to improve the financial management capacity of the Government of Bangladesh by helping it to institutionalise effective training in financial management. The project commenced in May 1999.
In addition to close monitoring by the DFID office in Bangladesh, the project was independently evaluated in August 2001. The evaluation concluded that the project had made good progress in its first two years towards building FIMA into a national resource for financial management training.