UK aid spending in 2017
Our UK aid budget only goes up when the UK economy grows, a sign of our economic success.
DFID Media Team
Ending FGM: UK aid makes largest ever investment
DFID has announced £50 million of new funding to end female genital mutilation (FGM), the largest investment ever made to end FGM worldwide.
UK aid's role in Libyan detention centres
The UK government is encouraging the Libyan authorities to improve conditions in detention centres and UK aid provides humanitarian support to those who are in them
UK aid support to ClientEarth
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0.7%, Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia
Not a single penny of UK aid provided to ClientEarth is used for their core UK business, including the salaries of chief executives.
The Telegraph has now updated its copy to accurately reflect this point.
Aid to India: No UK aid has funded Unity Statue
No UK aid has been used to fund the ‘Unity Statue’ in India
DFID's push to tackle corruption and organised crime
UK aid is helping to combat crimes such as human trafficking, corruption and drug smuggling before they reach UK shores.
DFID's response to coverage of maternal health figures
Today, Tuesday 30 October, there has been newspaper coverage of the Independent Commission for Aid Impact’s (ICAI) report on DFID’s maternal health programmes. This is DFID's response.
It is only with thorough evaluation, we can ensure aid does work
DFID stands by its decision to fund the project in northern Ghana, but accepts the robust, independent evaluation, which concluded it should be not be scaled up
DFID on spending UK aid on infrastructure in developing countries
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Africa, Infrastructure, Official Development Assistance
The Sun’s online headline completely misrepresents the findings of the ICAI report, focussing as it does exclusively on a very narrow area of DFID’s work in this field, namely potholes.
Penny Mordaunt sets out vision for UK aid post Brexit
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...products that will invest in the Global Goals? Or open an app on their phone, and select which Goals they’d most like to invest in?” The Secretary of State also...