Yesterday (Wednesday 24 January 2018), there was widespread media coverage of an attack on Save the Children’s offices in the Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan where four members of their team have...
...Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria. International Development Secretary Priti Patel said: “Polio has no place in the 21st Century and the UK is leading the way in the last push to...
International Development Secretary Alok Sharma meets girls learning how to code during a recent trip to Ethiopia. Picture: DFID/Anna Dubuis We must empower young girls and provide them with the...
...and then published in line with guidance from OSR’s Code of Practice for Statistics. The nature of DFID’s work, especially in conflict states such as Syria, can make obtaining accurate...
...aid budget, to use the same ruthlessness to improve their aid spending. This government deplores waste. But we firmly believe it is right to spend 0.7 per cent of our...
...one of just three countries in the world, alongside Afghanistan and Nigeria, which are yet to declare themselves officially free of wild polio. He said: “Never in my wildest dreams...
...the International Development Committee and made use of improperly obtained DFID documents for commercial gain came to light in December 2016. DFID and the FCO continue to monitor closely the...
...teenage girls learning to code. One of them told him: “Education is a weapon that can change the world.” “She’s right”, he said, but added that “millions of girls around...
International Development Secretary Alok Sharma meets girls learning how to code during a trip to Ethiopia. Picture: DFID/Anna Dubuis International Development Secretary Alok Sharma wrote this piece about the upcoming...
...that the way this appalling abuse of vulnerable people was dealt with raises serious questions that Oxfam must answer. The behaviour of these individuals in Haiti was shocking and utterly...