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REVISED PROCEDURES FOR COUNTRY POLICY PAPERS
Problem
1.
Although Country Policy Papers (CPPs) are regarded as
an essential tool of aid management, enshrining as they do
Whitehall agreement to our policies toward individual re-
cipient countries, their usefulness is marred by the time
taken in their production and by the requirement that they
have to be produced for all recipients even though on a
reduced basis where programmes are small irrespective of
circumstances and size of programme.7 The problem is how to
reduce the workloads involved while maintaining or even
improving the effectiveness of the system.
Background
2. The CPP is an inter-Departmentally agreed document
establishing British aid policy towards the country concerned
Together with the country allocation in the Aid Framework,
it makes up the agreed country programme which ODM is
authorised to implement without further major reference to
other Departments, within the delegated authorities agreed
with Treasury.
In turn those delegations were agreed on the
understanding, among others, that CPPS would continue to be
regularly produced.
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