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Permanent secretary, Department for International Development What are you most proud of ach...think we have managed to keep international development on the agenda. We launched a...rs in the United Nations, the international financial institutions and...
783 days ago
Presentations and Videos from Civil Service Live 2011
...urement in information technology Tue 11:10 Department for International Development Tue 11:20 Transfo...ng with SMEs Wed 13:40 Weather, climate and International development- All Presentations W...
174 days ago
Agenda for International Good Practice
...over an important part of the Department’s work. Details to f...Africa as the most important development of the early 21st century, with...40-14.40 Weather, Climate and International Development The Met Office is involved i...
222 days ago
...leisure pastimes to members. Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD)The department is responsible for the policy...g, infrastructure investment, international relations, sustainable development, survivors of the Troubles, p...
2 days ago
Permanent Secretary, Department for International DevelopmentWhat are you most proud of ac...to a radical reshaping of the Department for International Development (DfID). Sixteen countries no lo...the most important thing the department must achieve during 2012?We mu...
55 days ago
Lowcock: more to do on corruption
...k, permanent secretary of the Department for International Development (DfID), yesterday promised to improve his department’s anti-corruption effor...ing before the Commons’ International Development Committee, Lowcock said DfID ha...
50 days ago
Quango criticises DfID efforts
The Department for International Development (DfID) lacks a sufficient anti-corr...reports last week, one of which assessed the department’s approach to tackling corru...uption falling down the cracks,” he added. Development secretary Andrew Mitchell wel...
68 days ago
...g David Cameron’s control over Tory-led departments’ policies, and coordinatin...ey must do all this while running a major department.This is a big ask. Upset the...secretaries to stand up for their staff: international development chief Mark Lowcock recently c...
83 days ago
Interview: Bob Kerslake and Jeremy Heywood
...– can be done by individual departments alone,” argues Sir Bob. ...s tied up at the communities department for three days a week. But he do...so on political, economic and international forces far beyond the governm...eign office and international development department, while Kerslake ma...
7 days ago
...rectors in central government departments weren’t professionally qua.... “It remains the case that departmental permanent secretaries are over...Lowcock of the Department for International Development, and new head of the civil se...ed Institute of Personnel and Development; receives a Postgraduate Cert...
29 days ago
...ail Pryadilnikov, head of the Department of Economic Policy Coordination and Development, raises a more strategic point....e says.Questions of workforce development seemed to be an area of great...evers, chief executive of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabi...
48 days ago
...eported back to the UK so that departments could understand the latest plans and developments. “It will be no surprise...servant who has worked for the Department for International Development and the Foreign Office in Afg...d these issues more than other departments.”Despite the stresses, both...
170 days ago
...ned that if data is stored on international servers rather than in the UK, then departments could be in breach of the Da...serv’s head of research and development, Matt Johnson, gave a practical...Johnson, head of research and development, EduservDenise McDonagh, head...
180 days ago
Round table: In search of perfection
...ulty in collating data across departments or using historical data wit...ather than introducing within departments an entirely new system to co...urement at the Department for International Development, compared it to prospecting for...collecting spending data in a department. To realise cost savings, he s...
180 days ago
...vice in 2003, working for the Department for Work and Pensions as IT d...differing deals with diverse departments”. Discussing the role of a...y of DefenceSupplier: Babcock International GroupBill Yardley is the crow...t as a crown rep as a natural development of his role negotiating with...
180 days ago
The coalition special advisers
..., legal aid, human rights and international affairs briefs at the Ministr...cretary of State for the Home Department and Minister for Women and Equal...to topSecretary of State for International DevelopmentPhilippa Buckley and Richard P...
180 days ago
...actices and style. Find the department ...top Department for Work and PensionsMinister...top Department for Environment, Food and Rur... Department for International DevelopmentMinister's profileNon-executiv...
168 days ago
Without a coordinated approach to intervention in conflicts, both nations and departments can end up working at cross-purposes. Matt Ross meets Richard Teuten, who fosters over-arching UK strategies on armed strugglesStereotypes will only get you so far in this world – but occasionally you do c...
Tags: department for international development, foreign and commonwealth office, ministry of defence
180 days ago
A lack of reliable information about UK government aid to Malawi makes value-for-money judgments difficult, MPs have warned.The Commons public accounts select committee has also questioned whether the Department for International Development (DfID) has enough staff on the ground to oversee the wa...
Tags: commons public accounts committee, department for international development, public service reform
180 days ago
