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What irritates me a bit about DFID policy and also that of your site, is the insistence on focusing only on the poorest countries, mostly in Africa. As a social policy consultant working in the former Soviet Union I sometimes feel that if a country that needs aid is not a former UK colony, then DFID does not find it interesting. DFID is withdrawing from the Russian Federation already, but there are an awful lot of people stuck in very poor countries like Tajikistan, where many live on under 1 USD per day in a climate which gets very cold in the winter (so they would really need more than that one USD), and people in these parts of the world are almost excluded from this kind of dialogue. Politically speaking this gives countries like Iran plenty of scope for intervention in such countries (let's face it, aid is not only about helping people).
Please make sure that Eastern voices are also included - not all of Asia (central or otherwise) is a progressive economy.