Governance programmes in Myanmar

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Paul Taylor
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Dear Department for International Development,

I would grateful if you would provide to me a breakdown of funding, and all monitoring and evaluation reports, for DfID-funded programmes/projects in Myanmar relating to improving governance.

Specifically, I am hoping to receive:

1) Funding
Please provide annual funding total for DfID support to governance related programmes* in Myanmar from 2015 to the present, broken down by name of programme and by implementing organisation.

2) Evaluation reports
Please provide all project/programme evaluations from 2015 to the present, relevant to governance programmes*.

*Please note I would like the following definition of 'DfID-funded governance programmes' to be applied:
- 'Governance programmes' is a broad definition, and should include as a minimum: social accountability, civic engagement, public finance management/expenditure tracking, public service reform, parliamentary support programmes, community level governance initiatives.
- 'DfID-funded' should please include programmes where: DfID is contributory donor to multilateral (eg UNDP/World Bank) programmes, direct delivery, inc through executive agenciesNDPBs, and funding disbursed via international development agencies and/or national organisations.

I will be submitting a duplicate request to the FCO.

Thanks in advance.

Yours faithfully,
Paul Taylor

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Dear Mr Taylor

Thank you for your request for information which we received on
11/09/2019. We are dealing with it under the terms of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 and will respond to you directly as soon as possible
and within 20 working days.

Please note the Department for International Development may also publish
our response to Freedom of Information requests at www.gov.uk/dfid.

Please contact me if you have any queries, quoting reference number
F2019-325.

Yours sincerely

Alison Marshall
Information Rights Team
Department for International Development

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Dear Mr Taylor,

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Yours sincerely,

Alison Marshall
Information Rights Team
Department for International Development

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Paul Taylor
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Dear Alison,

Thanks so much for your letter in response to my recent FOI request. This is useful information and I will contact you again if I decide to refine my request.

I thought you might like to know that as well as this information being very useful to my work, I also made the FOI request as I wanted to share with my Burmese colleagues here in Yangon how the freedom of information act works in practice. I support a small national organisation dedicated to the principle of open government and who are advocates of the right to information. So undertaking this exercise was a useful case study of how things can be done. If you'd like to know more about our organisation you can visit theananda.org or mmbudgets.info.

Thanks again

Yours faithfully,
Paul Taylor

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