Last Monday, Overseas Development Institute hosted a public meeting on UK Development Assistance in Latin America: Lessons from Peru. Read the meeting summary here:
The meeting comes 18 months on from the closure of DFID’s Lima office and the decision to scale back DFID operations in middle income countries, ODI’s Latin America and Caribbean Group organised an event to discuss UK development assistance in Latin America with a specific focus on lesson-learning from Peru. The event brought together both British and Latin American speakers.
Topics that were discussed included:
- What ‘development’ actually means for Peru and in the Latin American context
- Raising awareness in developed countries about Peru’s poorest and most vulnerable citizens
- How development organisations operating in Peru are coping with change, and the structures and methods they are evolving to deal with this
- How the UK Government seeks to assist development in the Andean region, including in Peru
- Examples of best practice for influencing development policy
- Changes in the external environment – how these affect Latin America and its development, and what steps development organisations can take to better interpret and respond to these challenges
