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We have renewed our Programme Partnership Agreement (PPA) with DFID, which began in 2002. The current PPA runs until 2011, with funding agreed until 2008.
Our partnership with DFID is not simply one of funding – we share many strategic development goals, such as a commitment to poverty reduction and human rights, the capacity-building of local institutions, the empowerment of women, and a partnership approach to development. These commitments are outlined in the British Government White Papers on development and in DFID’s target strategy papers.
DFID's Conflict and Humanitarian Aid Department (CHASE) has supported our emergency work in India (Orissa and Gujarat), Mozambique and, most recently, in India and Sri Lanka following the Indian Ocean tsunami. DFID has also provided substantial funds for our work with vulnerable older people in Northern Iraq.
We work closely with DFID country offices in Bolivia, Ethiopia and Tanzania and, increasingly, with those in India, Kenya, Mozambique and Sudan.
We have closely engaged in policy work with DFID for many years. We are working with DFID and other donor and United Nations agencies to promote rights, social inclusion and social-protection policies and programmes. DFID has supported our older citizens' monitoring project, the results of which are being fed into DFID policy. Two critically-acclaimed pieces of DFID-funded research on the contributions of older people to development in Ghana and South Africa led to DFID publishing a paper on ageing and development.
