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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)