Future UK Approach to Development evidence session
13 October 2014
The International Development Committee will hold its first evidence session for the Beyond Aid inquiry on Tuesday 14 October.
Witnesses
Tuesday 14 October, Committee Room 8, Palace of Westminster
At 10.00 am:
- Professor Ngaire Woods, University of Oxford
- Professor Melissa Leach, Director, Institute of Development Studies
- Ben Jackson, Director, BOND
At 11.00 am:
- Sir John Holmes, Director, Ditchley Foundation
- James de Waal, Senior Fellow, Chatham House
Purpose of the Session
The Beyond Aid inquiry, the starting point for which is the changing development landscape, and the need for development to be about more than aid. Panel 1 is an opportunity to explore the challenges and dilemmas implicit securing a coherent UK approach to development, and the possible costs, trade-offs, and conflicts inherent within it. The second panel will explore two specific policy areas – humanitarian work, and conflict prevention – and how a coherent, effective future UK development approach might look.
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