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** FORBES OPINION
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** Prime Minister May: Please Discuss International Development With President Trump
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** BY DANIEL F. RUNDE
JANUARY 24, 2017
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On Friday, January 27, Prime Minister Theresa May will visit President Donald Trump in Washington – making her the first foreign leader to meet with the new president (http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/22/europe/may-trump-uk-us-visit/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e934c8c540-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_11_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e934c8c540-145367789) . The United States and the United Kingdom will recommit to the U.S.-UK “special relationship” – a welcome development. One topic that deserves a few minutes of discussion is foreign assistance as a form of soft power. The UK uses its foreign assistance as soft power, but justifies every pound the UK spends. The UK has gone through several rigorous top-to-bottom reviews of its foreign assistance, and the United States should follow Britain’s lead and conduct a similar top-to-bottom review of our foreign assistance commitments.

In 2011, the UK underwent its first multilateral aid review (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/multilateral-aid-review?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e934c8c540-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_11_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e934c8c540-145367789) (MAR) in order to determine how to cut UK support to inefficient multilateral agencies and reallocate £50 million in financial support to effective multilateral agencies. In 2011, forty-three organizations including all UN agencies and the World Bank were assessed by the MAR and categorized by the value for the money spent. Nine offered “very good value for money (https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/67583/multilateral_aid_review.pdf?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e934c8c540-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_11_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e934c8c540-145367789) ,” sixteen were categorized as “good,” nine as “adequate,” and nine as “poor.” The UK Department for International Development (DFID), the UK foreign aid agency, used the results of the MAR to increase funding by 25 percent (https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/224993/MAR-taking-forward.pdf?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e934c8c540-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_11_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e934c8c540-145367789) to the World Bank and by nearly 200 percent for the UN
Children’s Fund (UNICEF) – two “very good” programs. The UK ended membership in the UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and scaled back involvement in the International Labor Organization (ILO) after determining their “very poor” value. The MAR was repeated in 2013 and 2015, and other adjustments have been made.


** Read in full here (http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielrunde/2017/01/24/prime-minister-may-please-discuss-international-development-with-president-trump/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e934c8c540-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_11_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e934c8c540-145367789#48a4eb993d3c) .
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