Department for International Development (DFID) has supported seven national priority health and population welfare programmes in Pakistan during 2007, which helped save about 60,000 children's lives, and contributed to 4,400 fewer maternal deaths and 300,000 children prevented from becoming malnourished.
According to DFID's Annual Report 2007 released recently, DFID funding has helped the government drastically improve its treatment of TB. Their case detection rate has increased from 51 percent in 2006 to 67 percent in 2007 and the treatment success rate is 87 percent.
DFID has significantly increased both human and financial resources so it can deliver on Ministerial commitments on climate change. A new Climate and Environment Group has been set up-tripling the number of staff working on this issue.
DFID has worked closely with Defra in setting up the £800 million Environmental Transformation Fund to catalyse a bigger multilateral effort to help meet the challenges of climate change in the world. This major international fund will support clean energy, building climate resilience and forestry. The report said. It added that the DFID would spend up to £1 billion on development research over the next five years.
Regarding "Key achievements during 2007" by DFID the report said that UK has become the largest contributor to the International Development Association (IDA), which provides credits and grants to around 80 of the poorest countries in the world, committing £2.134 billion for the three years 2008-09 to 2010-11.
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