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Meeting on 25 January 2008

In working towards the delivery of the Public Service Agreement the Management Board will aim to:

  • A. communicate the vision, role, direction and priorities of DFID to staff and other stakeholders;
  • B. consider the strategic challenges and risks to the organisation;
  • C. ensure effective allocation and management of DFID's staff and financial resources; and
  • D. monitor and improve DFID's performance.

10.00-12.30 - Location: PS 3W13 and AH280 

Time

Topic

Attending

Purpose

MB Obj

Papers

10:00 - 10:30

AOB

Closed Session

N/A

N/A

NONE

10:30 - 11:30

3rd Quarterly Management Report 2007/08

Sam Sharpe

To assess DFID’s performance on the basis of programme expenditure, IT, HR and risk indicators

A B C D

Submission

Corporate Risk Register - RESTRICTED

QMR 3 Report

 

Attendees

Sue Owen (Chair), Nemat Shafik, Mark Lowcock, Martin Dinham, Bill Griffiths (Non-Executive Director), David MacLeod (Non-Executive Director), Doreen Langston (Non-Executive Director), Sam Sharpe
 

Observers

In PS: Stephen McClelland, Christopher Phiri
From AH155 via VC: Richard Montgomery, Hugh McGarvey, Suzanne Adcock, Michael Morris, Dominic O’Neill, Stephen Bartlett
Overseas via VC: Chris Murgatroyd (DFID India), Louise Banham (DFID Kenya and Somalia), Donal Brown (DFID Vietnam), Adrian Blundell, Anna Bobin (DFID Zambia)
 

1. Sam Sharpe introduced the third Quarterly Management Report (QMR) for the financial year 2007/08.

2. The Management Board thanked the team for a very useful report, which they found shorter and clearer than previous QMRs. The Board agreed that:

i) Communications Division should be asked to develop two or three quantitative impact indicators for use in the section on reputational issues, and present them to the Board at the next Communications update in March;

ii) the section on fraud should distinguish more clearly in future between internal frauds, and those involving partners further down the delivery chain, and should identify the proportion of allegations which are not upheld;

iii) Section 1 of the next QMR should include a table of progress against Ministers’ four top priorities (growth, climate change, post-conflict stabilisation, and influencing the international system). Section 6 (on partnership working) should be shorter and more clearly prioritised;

iv) Corporate HR should ensure that staff are sufficiently aware of the range of definitions of disability;

v) The material on evaluation should focus more on content and less on process;

vi) The mitigating actions for risk 1 of the Corporate Risk Register need urgent attention. Risk 6 will be monitored more closely by the Board;

vii) Finance and Corporate Performance Division should advise the Board again on whether to have a target around programme based approaches for 2008-11, and

viii) the next QMR should include more information on ARIES.

 

Emma Williams
Assistant Secretary to the Management Board