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Notes from the Author

A Summary of the Trilogy

Volume 3 Making UK International Aid more effective!

UK International Aid

All too often, the victim of politicians wedded to their own ‘little endian’ or ‘big endian’
bigotry. A civil service based operation that lacks vision and has morphed into an

operation concerned with disbursing its own budget.

An operation that could be improved at almost every level. It doesn't matter whether

it’s DFID or FCDO, neither has the vision nor provides the leadership that is required.

DfiD was not ‘fit for purpose’. FCDO is simply the wrong vehicle and will never be ‘fit for

purpose’.

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DfiD

A dispenser of a multi-billion budget and so lacking in vision it failed to see how to apply
a force multiplier to that budget by taking actions that would bring the informal aid spend,

including that of the African Diaspora, into the formal UK International Aid programmes

Lacking in vision, as shown by its failure to harness the resources and the power for

development of key groups:

the UK-Based Diaspora(s)

UK Retirees

UK Cities & Towns
UK Business

A failure

to make itself relevant to UK people

of leadership in UK societal issues such as racism

of leadership in relation to the activities & impact of UK based International NGO &
Not For Profit (NFP) operations in Africa

A ‘never mind the quality, feel the width’ approach to UK International Aid.

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