HC Deb 28 April 2003 vol 404 c147W
Chris McCafferty

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what assessment she has made of the impact of her Department's adoption of SWAPs and the PRSP approach on the support made available by NGOs. [109947]

Clare Short

We have not undertaken an assessment of the impact of the adoption of SWAPS and PRSP approaches on support made available by NGOs. DFID provides Civil Society Organisation (CSO) funding through several means and for different purposes. The total given through UK CSOs has remained around £190 million for the past three years. More details are in the table which shows the amounts given over the past three financial years.

1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02
Total 195 184 191
Of which
Country Programme 75 50 54
Humanitarian assistance 34 73 69

Country Programme funds are those given to CSOs to undertake development activities on behalf of DFID channelled through individual bilateral and multilateral programmes. The full set of figures, recipients and an explanation of terms is shown in Statistics on International Development Table 14. Figures for 2002–03 will be published in this year's edition in October.

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