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28.
The Global
Conflict Prevention Pool (GCPP) and the Africa Conflict
Prevention
Pool (ACPP)
were established in the 2001 Spending Review to fund peacekeeping
and
peace
enforcement operations and conflict prevention
programmes.26
29.
The two Pools
were financed by transfers of existing budgets (and activities)
from
the MOD,
the FCO and DFID and the provision of additional funds by the
Treasury.27
The three
departments took decisions collectively on allocations from the
Pools.
30.
The GCPP and
ACPP budgets had two elements: programme spending and
peacekeeping
costs.28
The
peacekeeping budget was used to pay UK contributions
to peace
support operations mandated by multi‑national or
inter‑governmental
organisations.
It also covered the costs of deploying UK personnel in both UN
and
non‑UN
peace support operations and the UK contribution to international
criminal
courts. The
budget covered both assessed and non‑assessed (or
voluntary)
contributions.
31.
Sir Nicholas
Macpherson told the Inquiry that the Government had intended
that
the Pools
should promote a more co‑ordinated approach across
departments.29
32.
The budget for
the GCPP for 2003/04 was £483m, of which £378m was
allocated
to fund the
UK’s contributions to peacekeeping and peace enforcement operations
and
£105m was
allocated for conflict prevention programmes.30
33.
The ACPP and
the GCPP were merged in April 2008 to form the Conflict
Prevention
Pool. A
separate funding mechanism, the Stabilisation Aid Fund (SAF), was
established
in the same
year to support stabilisation activity in Iraq and Afghanistan. The
SAF was
merged into
the Conflict Prevention Pool in 2009.
34.
The UK
military also had access to significant amounts of US funding from
CERPs,
to spend on
urgent relief and reconstruction needs.
35.
The US
Congress appropriated US$3.6bn for CERPs between 2004 and 30
June
2009, to be
used by military commanders to address urgent relief and
reconstruction
needs in
their areas of responsibility.31
Of that,
almost US$3.2bn was spent.
36.
The US Special
Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR)
reported
in July
2009 that, by April 2009, the US had spent or allocated to ongoing
projects
26
Department
for International Development, Evaluation
of the Conflict Prevention Pools: Portfolio Review,
March
2004.
27
Statement
Macpherson, 15 January 2010, page 2.
28
Department
for International Development, Evaluation
of the Conflict Prevention Pools: Portfolio Review,
March
2004.
29
Public
hearing, 22 January 2010, pages 46‑47.
30
Department
for International Development, Evaluation
of the Conflict Prevention Pools: Portfolio Review,
March
2004.
31
Special
Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, Quarterly
Report and Semiannual Report to the US
Congress, 30
July 2009.
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