Commission criticises DfID unrestricted funding programme
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Commission criticises DfID unrestricted funding programme

17 May 2013 | Celina Ribeiro

The Independent Commission for Aid Impact has called on the Department for International Development to review the way it selects and evaluates the civil society organisations it gives unrestricted funding to, in a report which made several criticisms of its £120m programme.

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