3. Office procedures currently require that in principle
CPPS should be produced for all countries receiving
British bilateral aid, (except Dependent Territories and
Associated States for the time being), but full CPP's are
required only for countries receiving:
(a) Aid of over £1.5 million per annum;
(b) Aid of less than £1.5 million where this
amounts to over 25% of their total development
programme, or,
(c) Budgetary aid.
Otherwise abbreviated papers may be produced.
4.
The production of CPPs takes a great deal of the time
of geographical and other ODM Departments and of Advisers
and Development Divisions.
5. The Policy Board, having considered this situation,
reached a number of conclusions recently. which are summar-
ised below:-
(a) CPPs for countries where we have significant
programmes are still necessary, both for
internal purposes and to help our relations
with other Government Departments;
indeed
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they could become even more important if
suggestions for altering the Aid Framework system
go through. They are also known outside ODM,
for example, by the Select Committee on Overseas
Development, as a key part of our bilateral
procedures. It would be foolhardy to attempt to
scrap them.7
/(b)