We welcome work being done to increase in-country collaboration, and believe that in-country leadership of projects should be enhanced, not diminished. The new Department has the opportunity to build on examples of excellent in-country work completed by both the FCO and DFID, and to build on existing cooperation between the two Departments. While the structure of the new Department is not clear, it is important that it continues to show strong in-country leadership on both diplomatic and deve...

We welcome work being done to increase in-country collaboration, and believe that in-country leadership of projects should be enhanced, not diminished. The new Department has the opportunity to build on examples of excellent in-country work completed by both the FCO and DFID, and to build on existing cooperation between the two Departments. While the structure of the new Department is not clear, it is important that it continues to show strong in-country leadership on both diplomatic and development projects, and that this merger is taken as an opportunity for greater cooperation between these areas, rather than greater competition. We recomm Type: recommendation | Number: 9 | Response status: under_consideration Government response: As the Prime Minister noted in his statement to the House of 16 June 2020, the creation of the FCDO empowers The Foreign Secretary to deliver a single, unified UK strategy for each country overseen by the National Security Council. Those strategies will