The House of Commons International Development Committee has updated its Areas of Research Interest to support the Committee’s scrutiny of the UK’s international development strategy and funding.

Areas of Research Interest (ARIs) are lists of policy issues or questions. They are a way for select committees to express interest in seeing more research evidence in certain topics.

This ARI comes with several specific areas of interest aiming to further break down the broad area. These include:

• evaluating the impact of UK aid spending, as well as the UK spending through development finance institutions,

• the availability and quality of data on the UK Government’s contribution to international development,

• the impact of in-country refugee costs on wider UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) effectiveness.

This updates the Area of Research Interest published by the International Development Committee in 2021, on changes to the UK aid budget. The information provided by academics and other experts on existing and forthcoming research, and suggested scrutiny questions, helped to inform the Committee’s work and subsequent inquiries.

Academics at all career stages, research institutions, and experts are encouraged to register their interest in these ARIs, add their existing research in the topic areas to the ARI repository, provide their insights, and suggest questions that the Committee could be asking the Government.

Register your expertise and research insights on UK International development funding