Parliamentary Scrutiny of Aid Spending: The Case of the Global Challenges Research Fund. Issue 2 (8th March 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Manji, Ambreena; Mandler, Peter
• Is Part Of: Parliamentary affairs. Volume 72:Issue 2(2019)
• Page Start: 331
• Page End: 352
• Publication Date: 2018-03-08
• Subjects: Aid Strategy -- International Development -- Universities; Representative government and representation -- Periodicals; Legislative bodies -- Periodicals; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- Periodicals; Legislative bodies; Political science; Representative government and representation; Great Britain; Periodicals; Periodicals; 328.4105
• DOI: 10.1093/pa/gsy014
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0031-2290

Abstract

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.