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5 Jun 18
UK official development assistance should be more focused on helping the world’s poorest people, MPs have urged today.
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31 May 18
The European Union has released €40m in humanitarian aid for Bangladesh and Myanmar in support of the Rohingya people.
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29 May 18
The UK has pledged an extra £5m to tackle the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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17 May 18
The UK has given Malawi £11.9m worth of educational buildings to improve primary and secondary schools.
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8 May 18
The UK has announced £70m fresh humanitarian support for Rohingya people in Bangladesh ahead of heavy rain.
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30 Apr 18
The UK has committed £250m over the next four years to tackling environmental challenges, such as reducing plastic in the oceans and fighting illegal wildlife trade.
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26 Apr 18
The UK will provide emergency medical support and help protect medical facilities in Syria, international development secretary Penny Mordaunt said yesterday.
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18 Apr 18
Commonwealth countries are to increase efforts to stamp out human trafficking and child exploitation.
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12 Apr 18
UK overseas aid will be diverted away from “governments who can afford to, yet choose not to, invest in their own people”, international development secretary Penny Mordaunt has said.
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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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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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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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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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21 Feb 18
The UK will withhold funding from the United Nations if it does not take action amid accusations of employee sexual misconduct, the secretary for international development has warned.
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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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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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21 Nov 17
Donor countries should spend significantly more on global education to close the $1.8trn funding gap and help countries progress out of poverty, British MPs have said.
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9 Nov 17
Penny Mordaunt will join the UK cabinet as the new secretary of state for international development, following the resignation of Priti Patel.
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2 Nov 17
Crisis-hit states will no longer be denied overseas development aid because they are too wealthy following a change to international rules approved by the OECD’s Development Assistance...
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31 Oct 17
Public financial management had to start effectively from scratch following years of conflict in Afghanistan. The country, which still relies heavily on foreign aid, had to stamp out waste and...
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3 Oct 17
The UK has announced plans to clamp down on the risk of profiteering, excessive charges and unscrupulous practices as part of a new reform on aid suppliers.
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3 Oct 17
Since responsibility for spending aid was taken from DfID and divided between numerous departments and funds, there is uncertainty over monitoring and even if it is being spent at all. Russell...
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4 Sep 17
The UK has allocated £400,000 to flood relief work in Nepal, in addition to the £660,000 already given to NGOs in badly flooded Bangladesh.
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8 Aug 17
International development secretary Priti Patel has allocated a further £100m to aid world-wide eradication of polio.