UK Department for International Development
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19 Nov 19Representatives from UK political parties have disagreed over whether to maintain aid spending at the current level of 0.7% of gross national income.
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22 Oct 19The proportion of the aid budget controlled by the Department for International Development’s could be revised at the next Spending Review, international development secretary Alok Sharma has...
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13 Sep 19The UK government must do more to ensure departments better understand how to spend aid more efficiently, a watchdog has found.
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25 Jul 19The appointment of Alok Sharma as the UK’s new international development secretary appears to have scotched uncertainty over the department’s future.
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21 Jun 19Concentrating UK aid on large middle-income countries risks reducing the focus on poverty and the government’s new “leaving no one behind” philosophy, a watchdog has said.
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18 Jun 19The UK is to give Afghanistan £170m to help alleviate a “severe” humanitarian crisis caused by the worst drought in a decade that has left millions of people hungry.
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2 May 19Rory Stewart has been named as the new secretary of state at the Department for International Development.
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25 Apr 19A report commissioned by the Overseas Development Institute has called for the Department for International Development to better manage and prioritise its work.
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23 Apr 19The United Kingdom’s aid budget faces cuts if rival candidates to lead the ruling Conservative Party turn it into a “political football”, an MP has claimed.
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14 Dec 18The UK’s International Development Committee has launched an inquiry on the government's progress towards meeting the Sustainable Development Goals.
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27 Sep 18The UK’s Department for International Development has “significant weaknesses” in contract management with commercial suppliers, a watchdog has found.
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21 Sep 18Brexit negotiations risk undervaluing UK-EU collaboration in international development at their peril, says Claire Godfrey, from Bond, a UK network of organisations working in international...
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28 Jan 16UK government ministers have insisted that arms sales to Saudi Arabia do not undermine international development objectives in Yemen despite charities telling MPs that the positions were incompatible...
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21 Jan 16The UK’s Department for International Development needs to be better placed to ensure value for money in its response to fluid, long-term crises, the country’s public spending watchdog has said.
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20 Jan 16The UK Department for International Development’s overreliance on the international health system meant it failed to heed early warnings about the scale of the Ebola outbreak, British MPs concluded.
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19 Jan 16The World Bank has launched a UK-funded programme to improve evidence-based policy making and data literacy in Sudan.
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5 Jan 16European countries and members of the OECD must pick up the slack in their aid funding to Syria and surrounding countries, UK parliamentarians have said.
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4 Jan 16Overseas development assistance from wealthy governments hit an all-time high of $137.2bn in 2014, official figures have confirmed, however, aid to the group of Least Developed Countries and to sub-...
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24 Nov 15The UK Department for International Development has overhauled its overseas aid strategy, targeting half of all funding on fragile states and placing a stronger focus on value for money.