Regional Assistance Plans set out the broad framework for how DFID aims to contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals in a specific region of the world. Regional Assistance Plans focus on areas where DFID has smaller country programmes and where those countries are close geographically and face similar development challenges. They explain how DFID will work more effectively with a range of partners (at the national, regional and multilateral levels), building on experience from our bilateral country programmes, to address economic, political and social challenges that inhibit poverty reduction. Regional Assistance Plans will be available electronically at www.dfid.gov.uk. Major reviews of Regional Assistance Plans, leading to new printed documents, are expected to be undertaken every three to four years, in line with Country Assistance Plans.
