Dear Secretary of State

Alison Evans, Director of the Overseas Development Institute, has written an open letter to the new Conservative Secretary of State for International Development, Andrew Mitchell MP.

She highlights 10 priority issues for UK international development policy:

1. With only five years left to realise the  promise of the Millennium Development Goals, the international community must refocus its efforts

2. Think aid, think smart aid, but also think beyond aid

3. Global economic governance and the G-20

4. European development policy

5. Climate financing

6. Trade

7. Migration

8. The private sector

9. Rebuilding in fragile states

10. Accountability

Discuss.