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6 Feb 17
As UK aid becomes focused on outcomes, a scheme that allows recipients to use funding as they see fit is being ended to ensure money is not misused. Could it also stifle innovation?
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31 Jan 17
The UK is to redouble its efforts to boost the trade and economies of poorer countries as it looks to capitalise on the potential freedom from European Union rules presented by Brexit.
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30 Jan 17
The UK’s development agency should be scrapped because of “out of control” spending, according to a former minister of state at the department.
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27 Jan 17
The UK should not reconsider its commitment to spending 0.7% of national income on overseas aid, the country's former prime minister Gordon Brown told a committee yesterday.
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26 Jan 17
Two executive orders drafted by Donald Trump contain plans to reduce the voluntary contributions of the US to international bodies by 40%, and also cut the nation’s “burdensome” commitment to the...
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25 Jan 17
Over a third of people in the world’s poorest countries could remain in extreme poverty by 2030 if growth in those economies stays on its current trajectory, the United Nations has warned.
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24 Jan 17
The United Nations is appealing for $550m in 2017 to support its humanitarian response plan for Afghanistan launched yesterday.
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24 Jan 17
US president Donald Trump has blocked US aid to foreign organisations that promote or perform abortions overseas, continuing a rapid-fire first week in office that has also seen him pull America out...
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20 Jan 17
A British conservative think-tank has called on the country’s government to review its commitment to spend 0.7% of national income on overseas aid.
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19 Jan 17
An initiative to use ‘blue’ bonds to support marine conservation and climate change initiatives in small island nations has won a design grant from a blended finance platform.
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13 Jan 17
“Management weaknesses” in the European Commission have contributed to reducing the effectiveness of recent EU aid to Honduras, according to a report published yesterday by the European Court of...
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12 Jan 17
UK aid cash transfer programmes that have been excoriated in the British press have been found to deliver strong value for money and reduce poverty by the country’s aid watchdog.
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11 Jan 17
The UK has edged further toward what critics decry as a move to privatise its aid budget after MPs passed a controversial bill through the country’s House of Commons yesterday.
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9 Jan 17
An NGO that uses multimedia to champion girls’ rights has lost UK aid funding after being targeted with criticism by the country's press.
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4 Jan 17
Aid to the world’s poorest countries fell for the second year running in 2015 as donor governments prioritised refugee costs on their own soil, according to anti-poverty group the ONE Campaign.
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14 Dec 16
One third of health facilities in Nigeria’s conflict-hit Borno State have been completely destroyed, while nearly another third are partially damaged, it has been announced.
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14 Dec 16
The world’s 48 poorest countries have fallen further behind the rest of the world due to the recent collapse in commodity prices, which has caused growth in this group to slump to its weakest level...
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13 Dec 16
Syria’s brutal five-year civil war could have cost the country as much as $38bn in lost growth, researchers from the UK have estimated.
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13 Dec 16
‘Flat lining’ funding levels are threatening global progress in ending the malaria epidemic and preventing deaths from the disease, the World Health Organisation has warned.
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13 Dec 16
A humanitarian impact bond being pioneered by the International Committee of the Red Cross could transform aid financing for conflict zones and help monitor results. Dominik Stillhart tells PF...
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5 Dec 16
Blended finance could help tackle the funding gap faced by the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. But this will require new methods of financial reporting
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2 Dec 16
Money looted from Nigeria and seized by the UK should be used to save millions of people from starvation in the country’s north east, Save the Children has said.
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2 Dec 16
The UK’s aid agency has announced it is to “turbo charge” its focus on trade as part of a long-delayed review into its work overseas.
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30 Nov 16
British MPs have said moves to quadruple funding for the UK aid agency’s private sector arm open the door to the privatisation of the aid budget and could divert funding from the world’s poorest...
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29 Nov 16
Hard-won gains in democracy and governance secured all over the world will be at risk when US president-elect Donald Trump takes office in January, experts at the UK’s Overseas Development Institute...
6 Feb 17As UK aid becomes focused on outcomes, a scheme that allows recipients to use funding as they see fit is being ended to ensure money is not misused. Could it also stifle innovation?
31 Jan 17The UK is to redouble its efforts to boost the trade and economies of poorer countries as it looks to capitalise on the potential freedom from European Union rules presented by Brexit.
30 Jan 17The UK’s development agency should be scrapped because of “out of control” spending, according to a former minister of state at the department.
27 Jan 17The UK should not reconsider its commitment to spending 0.7% of national income on overseas aid, the country's former prime minister Gordon Brown told a committee yesterday.
26 Jan 17Two executive orders drafted by Donald Trump contain plans to reduce the voluntary contributions of the US to international bodies by 40%, and also cut the nation’s “burdensome” commitment to the...
25 Jan 17Over a third of people in the world’s poorest countries could remain in extreme poverty by 2030 if growth in those economies stays on its current trajectory, the United Nations has warned.
24 Jan 17The United Nations is appealing for $550m in 2017 to support its humanitarian response plan for Afghanistan launched yesterday.
24 Jan 17US president Donald Trump has blocked US aid to foreign organisations that promote or perform abortions overseas, continuing a rapid-fire first week in office that has also seen him pull America out...
19 Jan 17An initiative to use ‘blue’ bonds to support marine conservation and climate change initiatives in small island nations has won a design grant from a blended finance platform.
13 Jan 17“Management weaknesses” in the European Commission have contributed to reducing the effectiveness of recent EU aid to Honduras, according to a report published yesterday by the European Court of...
12 Jan 17UK aid cash transfer programmes that have been excoriated in the British press have been found to deliver strong value for money and reduce poverty by the country’s aid watchdog.
9 Jan 17An NGO that uses multimedia to champion girls’ rights has lost UK aid funding after being targeted with criticism by the country's press.
4 Jan 17Aid to the world’s poorest countries fell for the second year running in 2015 as donor governments prioritised refugee costs on their own soil, according to anti-poverty group the ONE Campaign.
14 Dec 16One third of health facilities in Nigeria’s conflict-hit Borno State have been completely destroyed, while nearly another third are partially damaged, it has been announced.
14 Dec 16The world’s 48 poorest countries have fallen further behind the rest of the world due to the recent collapse in commodity prices, which has caused growth in this group to slump to its weakest level...
13 Dec 16Syria’s brutal five-year civil war could have cost the country as much as $38bn in lost growth, researchers from the UK have estimated.
13 Dec 16‘Flat lining’ funding levels are threatening global progress in ending the malaria epidemic and preventing deaths from the disease, the World Health Organisation has warned.
13 Dec 16A humanitarian impact bond being pioneered by the International Committee of the Red Cross could transform aid financing for conflict zones and help monitor results. Dominik Stillhart tells PF...
5 Dec 16Blended finance could help tackle the funding gap faced by the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. But this will require new methods of financial reporting
2 Dec 16The UK’s aid agency has announced it is to “turbo charge” its focus on trade as part of a long-delayed review into its work overseas.
