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 ...

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 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).

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With the current crisis in Ukraine, the FCDO now risks buckling under the weight of crisis after crisis, while grappling with extreme poverty, climate change, and the global recovery from the pandemic ...

The Minister’s responsibilities include: Latin America; Caribbean and Small Island Developing States; soft power (including FCDO arms-length bodies British Council, BBC World Service and Wilton ...