The Department for International Development (DFID) has established a strong set of controls to manage the risk of misuse of funds. We protect our funds in three ways: by ensuring that the funds were paid to the intended recipient, that the funds have been used for the purposes agreed, and that the use of the funds has been audited.The UK Government are introducing a new 'Aid Transparency Guarantee', which will make our aid fully transparent to citizens in both the UK and recipient countries. Aid transparency is critical to improving aid effectiveness and value for money, and reduces waste, fraud and corruption.The Secretary of State has also taken the first steps towards creating a new independent aid watchdog to review the effectiveness of DFID programmes. In addition we will modify the way that programmes are designed so that gathering rigorous evidence is built in from the day they start.