The Daily Mail today reports that Adam Smith International have ended their voluntary withdrawal from the DFID procurement process and can now bid for new DFID contracts.
DFID's response to the sexual abuse and exploitation perpetrated by charity workers in Haiti in 2011, and the measures we are taking to improve safeguarding across the aid sector.
Today (20 February), the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) published a review into how well the Department for International Development spends money. Its findings were broadly positive, saying DFID is a “global champion” when it came to value for money, and it was helping to make UK aid spending go further.
Mordaunt: "Oxfam has agreed to withdraw from bidding for any new UK Government funding until DFID is satisfied that they can meet the high standards we expect of our partners"
Penny Mordaunt has announced a series of actions to tackle sexual exploitation in the aid sector, declaring it vital that the whole sector steps up.
There is continued media coverage today (Sunday 11 February) of allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse by Oxfam staff in Haiti in 2011 and other charity workers. The International Development...
...informed us that the Country Director had resigned and reported that six other members of staff had been involved in a number of breaches of Oxfam’s code of conduct. They...
Penny Mordaunt wrote a powerful piece laying out the case for UK aid in The Daily Express today. The International Development Secretary argued “Britain has a moral responsibility to help lift people less fortunate out of poverty”. But she also highlighted how UK aid’s work was making the UK itself “more secure and prosperous”.
...is today upping its ambition. Previously, we committed to ending FGM in a generation. Today we are calling on everyone to get behind the global ambition to end FGM by...
Today, as reported across the BBC and other outlets, the International Development Secretary has announced the UK’s replenishment of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) at a conference in Dakar...