The Aid Framework
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1.
The Aid Framework is the ODA's principal tool for the forward planning and management of aid funds. This note briefly sets out the main stages of the process.
2. The Aid Framework cycle has three main components:
(1)
an Aid Expenditure Strategy Paper;
(2)
the preparation of the detailed Aid Framework allocations
for the three forward years (ie 1989/90 to 1991/92, the
allocations for 1988/89 with which we enter that year
having now been agreed)
(3)
the allocation of the Unallocated Reserve for the first
forward year.
The Annex provides an indicative timetable for each of these three
stages.
Aid Expenditure Strategy Paper
It
3. The Aid Expenditure Strategy Paper provides the basis for FCO
Ministers to agree certain strategic decisions which would guide
officials in the detailed formulation of Aid Framework proposals.
sets out the level of resources expected to be available for aid
spending over the Aid Framework period and the likely balance of spending between multilateral and bilateral aid given our existing commitments, identifying the scope still remaining for Ministers to
influence that balance. The paper seeks to identify the main
developmental, political and commercial considerations that should be taken into account in the forward planning of the aid programme.
4. The paper is prepared by APD and is considered first by officials in the joint DW/ODA Aid Policy Board and then by Ministers.
Ministers' conclusions form the policy framework within which the
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