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12 Sep 17
A campaigning group is calling for debt payments to Caribbean islands hit by Hurricane Irma to be suspended until the nations recover.
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11 Sep 17
The United Nations and its humanitarian partners have appealed for an extra $106m in aid to help drought victims in Kenya.
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11 Sep 17
The UK announced on Saturday it will match public donations to the British Red Cross appeal for victims of Hurricane Irma, up to £3m.
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8 Sep 17
The UK government has released £32m emergency aid to its overseas territories hit by hurricane Irma and is providing extra emergency support, such as 'shelter kits'.
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18 Aug 17
More emergency aid from the UK will be sent to Sierra Leone, international development secretary Priti Patel announced today.
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18 Aug 17
More than 9 million people were internally displaced by conflicts, violence or natural disasters in the first half of 2017, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).
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10 Aug 17
The UK government has accepted a set of recommendations to improve the effectiveness of its aid work in Somalia.
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8 Aug 17
British government departments have been asked to propose projects for overseas aid where there is clear potential for high-impact work in financial services, insurance, business services,...
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4 Aug 17
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has granted $78m to Somalia and South Sudan for drought resilience and the alleviation of chronic hunger and malnutrition.
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26 Jul 17
Slovenia should narrow the focus of its foreign aid outside the Balkans to avoid spreading this too thinly, a review by the OECD has said.
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19 Jul 17
The UK home secretary Amber Rudd has made £1m available to help community groups support Syrian refugees to settle in the UK.
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13 Jul 17
The UK government has allocated £46m in emergency aid for Mosul, following the Iraqi city’s declared liberation from Daesh.
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10 Jul 17
The British prime minister has announced a multi-million pound package of support for wealth creation in Africa.
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4 Jul 17
The UK’s aid agency this week launches new funding schemes for small charities and projects focused on diversity, inclusion and eliminating the drivers of intolerance.
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23 Jun 17
The UK’s aid watchdog has said the country’s £185m in support for Somalia last year delivered “significant achievements”.
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22 Jun 17
The UK is to spend £75m ($95m) on tackling the migration crisis in the Mediterranean over the next three years, prime minister Theresa May will announce tomorrow.
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21 Jun 17
Global humanitarian aid grew at a slower pace than it has done in three years in 2016, despite continued increases in need around the world.
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20 Jun 17
A data portal, launched today to coincide with World Refugee Day, can help governments better allocate aid resources to the world’s 65 million displaced people.
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16 Jun 17
The US’s planned cuts to foreign aid would have “life and death consequences” and harm American interests, according to a coalition of aid and health NGOs.
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15 Jun 17
Governments around the world must do more to support Uganda and other nations shouldering the greatest burden from South Sudan’s refugee exodus, a newly formed council for refugees has stressed.
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7 Jun 17
Aid to education is stagnating, according to United Nations cultural agency Unesco, which has highlighted that funding allocated to the sector fell for the sixth year in a row in 2015.
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26 May 17
A climate risk insurance instrument backed by a number of global institutions failed Malawi when the country most needed it, ActionAid has said.
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25 May 17
The majority of countries are still chronically underprepared for disease pandemics, with a working group on the issue dubbing this short-sighted, bad economics.
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24 May 17
US president Donald Trump has proposed dramatic cuts to the US’s overseas aid spending in his budget for the 2018 fiscal year.
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24 May 17
African nations are subsiding countries far richer than they, research by a group of development charities has found.
12 Sep 17A campaigning group is calling for debt payments to Caribbean islands hit by Hurricane Irma to be suspended until the nations recover.
11 Sep 17The United Nations and its humanitarian partners have appealed for an extra $106m in aid to help drought victims in Kenya.
11 Sep 17The UK announced on Saturday it will match public donations to the British Red Cross appeal for victims of Hurricane Irma, up to £3m.
8 Sep 17The UK government has released £32m emergency aid to its overseas territories hit by hurricane Irma and is providing extra emergency support, such as 'shelter kits'.
18 Aug 17More emergency aid from the UK will be sent to Sierra Leone, international development secretary Priti Patel announced today.
18 Aug 17More than 9 million people were internally displaced by conflicts, violence or natural disasters in the first half of 2017, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).
10 Aug 17The UK government has accepted a set of recommendations to improve the effectiveness of its aid work in Somalia.
8 Aug 17British government departments have been asked to propose projects for overseas aid where there is clear potential for high-impact work in financial services, insurance, business services,...
4 Aug 17The African Development Bank (AfDB) has granted $78m to Somalia and South Sudan for drought resilience and the alleviation of chronic hunger and malnutrition.
26 Jul 17Slovenia should narrow the focus of its foreign aid outside the Balkans to avoid spreading this too thinly, a review by the OECD has said.
19 Jul 17The UK home secretary Amber Rudd has made £1m available to help community groups support Syrian refugees to settle in the UK.
13 Jul 17The UK government has allocated £46m in emergency aid for Mosul, following the Iraqi city’s declared liberation from Daesh.
10 Jul 17The British prime minister has announced a multi-million pound package of support for wealth creation in Africa.
4 Jul 17The UK’s aid agency this week launches new funding schemes for small charities and projects focused on diversity, inclusion and eliminating the drivers of intolerance.
23 Jun 17The UK’s aid watchdog has said the country’s £185m in support for Somalia last year delivered “significant achievements”.
22 Jun 17The UK is to spend £75m ($95m) on tackling the migration crisis in the Mediterranean over the next three years, prime minister Theresa May will announce tomorrow.
21 Jun 17Global humanitarian aid grew at a slower pace than it has done in three years in 2016, despite continued increases in need around the world.
20 Jun 17A data portal, launched today to coincide with World Refugee Day, can help governments better allocate aid resources to the world’s 65 million displaced people.
16 Jun 17The US’s planned cuts to foreign aid would have “life and death consequences” and harm American interests, according to a coalition of aid and health NGOs.
7 Jun 17Aid to education is stagnating, according to United Nations cultural agency Unesco, which has highlighted that funding allocated to the sector fell for the sixth year in a row in 2015.
26 May 17A climate risk insurance instrument backed by a number of global institutions failed Malawi when the country most needed it, ActionAid has said.
25 May 17The majority of countries are still chronically underprepared for disease pandemics, with a working group on the issue dubbing this short-sighted, bad economics.
24 May 17US president Donald Trump has proposed dramatic cuts to the US’s overseas aid spending in his budget for the 2018 fiscal year.
24 May 17African nations are subsiding countries far richer than they, research by a group of development charities has found.
