DFID in China

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DFID in China

• RCUK Roundtable on ESRC-DFID Joint Scheme , 19th
  August 2009. Beijing.
• Presenter Halima Begum

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Key Messages

• China matters. It matters because of its size,
  and because of its global reach. China matters
  for the overall achievement of the UKs
  international development goals.
• Chinas record of poverty reduction in the last
  30 years is a considerable achievement. Since
  1978, 500 million Chinese have been lifted out of
  absolute poverty.
• However, the absolute numbers of poor people
  remain large. 200 million still live on less than
  1.25 a day , 500 million on less than 2 a day.
  
• China has made substantial progress in achieving
  the other MDGs. Many targets have been met or
  exceeded in advance of 2015, and most are on
  track.

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DFIDs inputs

• DFIDs programme in 2009/10 will be 30 million.
• Our bilateral programme will end by March 2011.
• The challenge for bilateral agencies in China is
  to generate impact when their expenditure in
  China is small.
• We will continue existing work on Chinas impact
  on international development objectives.

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DFIDs Focus

• We have good dialogue with China on
  international development, in line with the 8th
  MDG, which aims to develop a global partnership
  for development.

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DFIDs Focus

• Chinas relations with Africa.
• Aid Harmonisation and effectiveness.
• Facilitating learning from Chinas own experience
  in poverty reduction.
• Continue existing UK/China dialogues on
  sustainable development, climate change and
  energy security.

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DFIDs Focus

• Basic education, HIV and AIDS, TB control,
  health systems reform, water and sanitation, and
  poverty reduction programmes in remote minority
  areas.
• This will end by 2011.
• The relationships developed under the bilateral
  programme are helping to take forward our
  dialogue on international development issues.
• Work with Chinese partners to disseminate lessons
  from a number of our projects to other developing
  countries.

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Quality with Impact

• All our existing work and future collaborations
  must set out the potential impact of research on
  poverty reduction.
• It must show who the stakeholders /potential end
  users of programme outputs are and discuss how
  stakeholders and end users will be involved.

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Examples of Outcomes

• DFID and UK partners engaged in a high-level
  dialogue between the UK and China on sustainable
  development
• UK-China discussions on climate change and energy
  security

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Examples of Outcomes

• After the Sichuan earthquake in 2008 we provided
  1 million to the Chinese Association for NGO
  co-operation for recovery and reconstruction
  efforts.
• Completed a major poverty reduction project (
  with the World Bank). The total budget was 100
  million, and helped to improve the lives of 1.4
  million of the poorest rural people in remote
  regions of Sichuan, Guangxi and Yunnan.
• DFID has been working with Government of China to
  build up a more equitable and efficient health
  system since 1999. Our work includes supporting
  large scale pilots in rural health reform, urban
  health, and medical financial assistance to the
  urban and rural poor.

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