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10 Apr 18
Foreign aid from official donors totalled $146.6bn in 2017, a decrease of 0.6% from 2016 in real terms, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has reported.
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6 Apr 18
The European Union has announced €150m to support of Lebanon’s economy, which it hopes will generate €1.5bn in loans for the country until 2020.
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5 Apr 18
The UK is giving another £3m to countries in Africa and Asia to tackle the threat of landmines.
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5 Apr 18
Donor countries have pledged more than $2bn in humanitarian aid in response to the “worst manmade humanitarian crisis” in Yemen, at a pledging event in Geneva on Tuesday.
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27 Mar 18
The UK’s aid spending is “chaotic”, Labour’s shadow international development secretary has said, setting out her own ‘feminist’ plan for global development.
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20 Mar 18
China is to form an international development cooperation agency to enhance planning and coordination of foreign aid, it has been widely reported in a number of media outlets.
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19 Mar 18
The EU will give more than €31m in aid to assist Latin America and the Caribbean with humanitarian issues and ‘disaster preparedness’.
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7 Mar 18
The UK government should have been better prepared to assist overseas territories hit by hurricanes in September, the Foreign Affairs Committee has said.
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6 Mar 18
The Asian Development Bank has approved a total of $44m in financing to improve roads in Timor-Leste.
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6 Mar 18
The European Commission has pledged to give €24m in humanitarian assistance to help those affected by the conflicts in eastern Ukraine.
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28 Feb 18
An aid watchdog has called on the UK Department for International Development to do more to ensure the results of its investments in natural disaster resilience efforts are monitored thoroughly.
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28 Feb 18
Recent revelations about sexual exploitation in aid contexts was caused by Britain’s failure in its duty to put the beneficiaries first, the UK international development secretary has said.
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22 Feb 18
It’s a paradox, but aid can undermine state building efforts in recipient countries. Maia King considers how this conundrum can be solved.
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20 Feb 18
The UK government’s approach to value for money for its foreign aid spending must get better to make a bigger difference, an aid watchdog has said.
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19 Feb 18
Oxfam has agreed not to bid for any new UK government funding until it reforms after allegations of sexual misconduct by aid workers.
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15 Feb 18
Gulf nations have pledged $30bn to Iraq at a conference this week, which was organised to discuss the reconstruct of the war-torn country’s economy.
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13 Feb 18
There is little evidence that aid interventions to reduce emigration from poor countries are effective, according to the Center for Global Development.
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7 Feb 18
The Department of International Development will help promote transparency in developing countries and international programmes to improve accountability through a new initiative.
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2 Feb 18
The UK’s £225m pledge to the “global learning crisis” is disappointing and falls short of what was expected, MPs on the international development committee have said.
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30 Jan 18
More debate on the interaction between aid and the private sector is needed, but must be led by the voices and priorities of the poorest people, says Polly Meeks of Eurodad.
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24 Jan 18
The UK Department for International Development has launched a digital strategy, which it says will ensure the aid system is “ready for the digital challenges of the 21st century”.
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22 Jan 18
The United Nations is seeking $1.6bn to protect millions of people in Somalia from drought, conflict and displacement.
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22 Jan 18
More than 80% of new global wealth is going to the richest 1% of the population while the poorest get nothing, resulting in a “system that is failing”, Oxfam has said.
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19 Jan 18
Saudi Arabia will help Yemen’s struggling economy with a $2bn transfer to its central bank following the Yemeni prime minister’s appeal for help.
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16 Jan 18
The European Union will give an additional €5m to support Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.
10 Apr 18Foreign aid from official donors totalled $146.6bn in 2017, a decrease of 0.6% from 2016 in real terms, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has reported.
6 Apr 18The European Union has announced €150m to support of Lebanon’s economy, which it hopes will generate €1.5bn in loans for the country until 2020.
5 Apr 18The UK is giving another £3m to countries in Africa and Asia to tackle the threat of landmines.
5 Apr 18Donor countries have pledged more than $2bn in humanitarian aid in response to the “worst manmade humanitarian crisis” in Yemen, at a pledging event in Geneva on Tuesday.
27 Mar 18The UK’s aid spending is “chaotic”, Labour’s shadow international development secretary has said, setting out her own ‘feminist’ plan for global development.
20 Mar 18China is to form an international development cooperation agency to enhance planning and coordination of foreign aid, it has been widely reported in a number of media outlets.
19 Mar 18The EU will give more than €31m in aid to assist Latin America and the Caribbean with humanitarian issues and ‘disaster preparedness’.
7 Mar 18The UK government should have been better prepared to assist overseas territories hit by hurricanes in September, the Foreign Affairs Committee has said.
6 Mar 18The Asian Development Bank has approved a total of $44m in financing to improve roads in Timor-Leste.
6 Mar 18The European Commission has pledged to give €24m in humanitarian assistance to help those affected by the conflicts in eastern Ukraine.
28 Feb 18Recent revelations about sexual exploitation in aid contexts was caused by Britain’s failure in its duty to put the beneficiaries first, the UK international development secretary has said.
22 Feb 18It’s a paradox, but aid can undermine state building efforts in recipient countries. Maia King considers how this conundrum can be solved.
19 Feb 18Oxfam has agreed not to bid for any new UK government funding until it reforms after allegations of sexual misconduct by aid workers.
15 Feb 18Gulf nations have pledged $30bn to Iraq at a conference this week, which was organised to discuss the reconstruct of the war-torn country’s economy.
13 Feb 18There is little evidence that aid interventions to reduce emigration from poor countries are effective, according to the Center for Global Development.
7 Feb 18The Department of International Development will help promote transparency in developing countries and international programmes to improve accountability through a new initiative.
2 Feb 18The UK’s £225m pledge to the “global learning crisis” is disappointing and falls short of what was expected, MPs on the international development committee have said.
30 Jan 18More debate on the interaction between aid and the private sector is needed, but must be led by the voices and priorities of the poorest people, says Polly Meeks of Eurodad.
24 Jan 18The UK Department for International Development has launched a digital strategy, which it says will ensure the aid system is “ready for the digital challenges of the 21st century”.
22 Jan 18The United Nations is seeking $1.6bn to protect millions of people in Somalia from drought, conflict and displacement.
22 Jan 18More than 80% of new global wealth is going to the richest 1% of the population while the poorest get nothing, resulting in a “system that is failing”, Oxfam has said.
16 Jan 18The European Union will give an additional €5m to support Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.
