International Development written question – answered at on 5 September 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much money was contributed to the Maldives from his Department's budget in 2010-11; and how much he plans to contribute to the Maldives in (a) 2011-12 and (b) 2012-13.
The Department for International Development has now reduced its bilateral focus to 27 countries with huge burdens of poverty, of which the Maldives is not one. The Maldives has now graduated to middle income status and has achieved five out of the eight Millennium Development Goals ahead of the 2015 deadline.
The UK does however support the Maldives through the British high commission in Colombo and indirectly through our contribution to multilateral partners such as the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. The Maldives is also a pilot country in the Climate Investment Funds Scaling-up Renewable Energy Programme, which the UK supports, and can access the Special Climate Change Fund and Adaption Fund (which recently approved a $10 million freshwater supply project in the Maldives). The UK supports both these funds.
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