Israel: Palestinians

(asked on 4th April 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Development:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, which research partner has been selected by her Department for the People for Peaceful Change programme.


Answered by
Harriett Baldwin Portrait
Harriett Baldwin
This question was answered on 9th April 2019

DFID has agreed that Search for Common Ground (SFCG) should select the research partner through a closed selection process because the processes involved in an open competition would place sensitive information about existing programme activities into the public domain. Our risk assessment indicates that this information could be used to target future programme activities, individual participants, or local staff involved in the management of the programme, and so we took this decision in order to uphold the aid principle to do no harm.

DFID received the bids from SFCG on 17 March 2019, and the evaluation panel comprehensively reviewed the bids and concluded that they did not sufficiently address the scope of work required for the People for Peaceful Change research piece. DFID is currently in the middle of agreeing an alternative option to effectively deliver a comprehensive and robust research element to this programme. We will release an interim update on the research piece to update MPs by the end of April.

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