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The committee members will meet ministers, political leaders, and civil servants, representatives of the donor community, private sector representative and civil society members to take feedback on DFID programmes.
The team will also make field trips to Surkhet, Accham, Nepalgunj, Pokhara, Parbat and Baglung, to inspect DFID programmes, where they will visit a PLA cantonment, a hospital, a school, and sites of community forestry, roads, skills and water supply programmes and support to the World Food Programme.
The committee members will also go on a mountain flight to inspect the impact of climate change in the Himalayas.
IDC is appointed by the British parliament to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of DFID, the part of the UK government that manages UK aid to poor countries and works to get rid of extreme poverty.
It also takes interest in the policies and procedures of the multilateral agencies and non-government organisations to which DFID contributes.
The community members will specifically look into DFID's support for governance and state-building, how DFID works with the UK Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defence to support the Comprehensive Peace Agreement and security sector reform, DFID's approach to achieving poverty reduction and improving access to basic services, DFID's efforts to reduce social exclusion and inequality including its work with women and donor coordination in support of greater aid-effectiveness and peace-building.
The other members of the delegation include John Battle, Hugh Bayley, Nigel Evans, Mark Hendrick, Mark Lancaster, Virendra Sharma, Marsha Singh and MP Andrew Stunell. Nepalnews.com
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