The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) leads the UK’s work to end extreme poverty. We are tackling the global challenges of our time including poverty and disease, mass migration, insecurity and conflict. Our work is building a safer, healthier, more prosperous world for people in developing countries and in the UK too.
We are responsible for:
- honouring the UK’s international commitments and taking action to achieve the United Nations’ Global Goals
- making British aid more effective by improving transparency, openness and value for money
- targeting British international development policy on economic growth and wealth creation
- improving the coherence and performance of British international development policy in fragile and conflict-affected countries
- improving the lives of girls and women through better education and a greater choice on family planning
- preventing violence against girls and women in the developing world
- helping to prevent climate change and encouraging adaptation and low-carbon growth in developing countries
Priorities
- strengthening global peace, security and governance
- strengthening resilience and response to crisis
- promoting global prosperity
- tackling extreme poverty and helping the world’s most vulnerable
- delivering value for money
The FCDO Evaluation Unit drives better delivery of official development assistance by using evaluation to learn what works and what does not, where and why. The unit provides an oversight role of FCDO’s evaluation portfolio and strengthen’s FCDO’s position as a global leader in evaluation.
Institutional Representative: Esther Forgan, Evaluation Adviser (Methods Lead), Evaluation Unit
The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) leads the UK’s work to end extreme poverty. We are tackling the global challenges of our time including poverty and disease, mass migration, insecurity and conflict. Our work is building a safer, healthier, more prosperous world for people in developing countries and in the UK too. We are responsible for: Priorities The FCDO Evaluation Unit drives better delivery of official development assistance by using evaluation to learn what works and what does not, where and why. The unit provides an oversight role of FCDO's evaluation portfolio and strengthen's FCDO's position as a global…