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MF.23/3

DRAFT CIRCULAR SAVING DESPATCH

Addressed as in para. 4.

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Aid Procedures

Consideration has recently been given by United Kingdom

Government Departments concerned with the Aid Programme to the

procedures for the operation of the Programme with particular

reference to the appraisal of requests for capital aid and

technical assistance and the need to ensure that the funds and

services provided are used to the best advantage.

To a

2. I enclose a note which describes these procedures.

considerable extent the procedures set out are already in force

and the information given will be familiar to you; nonetheless

you will probably find this summary of agreed practice useful.

In particular the section on the documentation required for

development aid projects is designed to help to prevent delays

which sometimes arise in considering C.D. & W. applications

because insufficient information has been supplied.

3. A separate communication will be sent shortly to territories

in receipt of C.D. & W. aid about development aid in the period

commencing 1 April 1970.

4. This despatch is addressed to: the Governors of the

Bahamas, Bermuda, British Honduras, Falkland Islands, St. Helena,

Fiji, Gibraltar, Hong Kong and Seychelles; the Administrators of

the Cayman Islands, Montserrat, St. Vincent, Turks and Caicos Islands.

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