Created in 2020 through the merger of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and the Department for International Development (DFID), the FCDO is the UK government department responsible for ...

Today, as the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) is launched, the global organisation Mercy Corps has called for the new department to ensure that peace-building remains at the core ...

The UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) has ‘made substantial progress with the merger that created it’ but its ‘development capacity has reduced’ and improvements are still ...

The NAO said: “FCDO’s development capability has reduced since the merger. FCDO has changed leadership structures and roles to integrate development and diplomacy. “As a consequence ...

Britain made a similar move in 2020 when it combined its Department for International Development (DFID) with the Foreign Office to create the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO).

But some feel that Britain’s FCDO should be given more time to get over its last big merger, with the former Department for International Development, in 2020. Sir Peter Westmacott, a former UK ...

Many people in Whitehall think the merger was bungled. The FCDO is not working better today than before. It is tough to measure its foreign-policy achievements, not least because Ukraine absorbs ...

The UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) is funding efforts, led by IT security certification body Crest, to help overseas cyber security companies develop and mature their ...

The big question is how to fix the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), the mega-department formed from the merger of the aid corps and diplomatic service in 2020. Like many rushed ...

The merger between the FCDO and the Department for International Development "struggled to deliver", they add. They say "the very name of the Foreign, Commonwealth (formerly 'Colonial') and ...