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<p>The UK makes fixed ODA contributions to the EU budget and the European Development
Fund (EDF) each year. In addition to this funding, where DFID doesn’t have the expertise
or resources to deliver a major programme itself, it will work locally with partners
who can do this including the EU.</p><p>As set out in DFID's 2015 Statistics on International
Development publication, in addition to these fixed ODA contributions, DFID provided
£20,378,000 to the EU in 2014 for two infrastructure programmes in Africa. These are
both helping to promote trade within Africa and boost local economies, building markets
that Britain can trade with which is firmly in our national interest.</p><p><br>In
both cases the EU is the best partner with the necessary capacity and technical expertise
to carry out these large infrastructure programmes. Details of all such bilateral
programmes are published on devtracker.</p>
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