Parliamentary Scrutiny of Aid Spending: The Case of the Global Challenges Research Fund

Parliamentary Scrutiny of Aid Spending: The Case of the Global Challenges Research Fund

Abstract This article argues that the UK is now facing an increasingly complex aid landscape and that this poses significant problems for parliamentary scrutiny. It explores one of the most important of the Official Development Assistance (ODA) innovations of recent years, the Global Challenges Rese...

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Published in:Parliamentary affairs Vol. 72; no. 2; pp. 331 - 352
Main Authors: Manji, Ambreena, Mandler, Peter
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 01-04-2019
Subjects:
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Economic assistance
Economic development
FOREIGN AID
International cooperation
OECD
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
UNITED KINGDOM
International Development
Aid Strategy
Universities
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Summary:Abstract This article argues that the UK is now facing an increasingly complex aid landscape and that this poses significant problems for parliamentary scrutiny. It explores one of the most important of the Official Development Assistance (ODA) innovations of recent years, the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF). The fund constitutes a significant investment of ODA money in research. The GCRF provides an important case study of changing aid spending. The article locates the GCRF in the wider context of UK aid over the past two decades and considers the wider parliamentary scrutiny and accountability issues to which aid-funded research gives rise.
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PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS, Vol. 72, No. 2, Apr 2019: 331-352
PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS, Vol. 72, No. 2, Apr 2019, 331-352
Informit, Melbourne (Vic)
ISSN:0031-2290
1460-2482
DOI:10.1093/pa/gsy014