The Department for International Development (DFID) supports UNDP with core funding (£190 million in 2004-07), as well as supporting specific initiatives, such as the UNDP’s Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery (BCPR), and our country programme work. For example, this year DFID gave £200,000 to a UNDP trust fund that supported Kofi Annan’s role in helping resolve the post-election crisis in Kenya. It is not yet possible to provide figures for financial year 2008-09 or an administration cost breakdown. UNDP’s administration costs vary according to the programme and context, but the amount in many agreements is between 7 and 11 per cent.
DFID has procedures for routinely assessing aid programmes and has adapted the normal framework for its Country Programme Evaluations to take account of the specific requirements for aid effectiveness in fragile states, following the OECD-DAC Principles for Good International Engagement in fragile states.
A table listing the 163 programmes supported by £13.5 million from the Civil Society Challenge Fund (CSCF) during 2006-07 will be placed in the Library.
The Department for International Development (DFID) does not track administrative costs for each individual CSCF programme. During 2006-07, DFID's administrative cost for consultancy support to the CSCF as a whole was £227,518.
The Department for International Development (DFID) has joint funding schemes with four Research Councils. We estimate that spend on these programmes this financial year will be as shown in the following table.
Programme £ million Medical Research Council 5.4 Joint Natural Environment Research Council/Economic and Social Research Council Eco Systems Programme 0.5 Economic and Social Research Council 3 Biology and Biological Sciences Research Council 1.7
The DFID cost of administering these schemes is estimated at 2 to 3 per cent.