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...
The Guardian, BBC’s Focus on Africa and BBC Newsday have reported on new UK support to tackle the devastating locust outbreak in East Africa, featuring a UK-funded supercomputer that is...
There are reports in the news today on how the UK’s international development budget could be used to tackle plastic pollution in the world’s oceans. This comes as a scientific...
This article by International Development Secretary Alok Sharma appeared in Prospect Magazine on 5 November 2019. The world is rapidly changing—and with it, we face new global challenges. 131 million...
...for businesses to work with us. This includes ending agreements that stopped them bidding as part of more than one consortium. We also have requirements in our Code of Conduct,...
...change related droughts and floods, and a lack of economic opportunities threaten stability. Instability threatens British interests in Tanzania, South Africa and the wider region, and the UK’s prospects for...
...The Today Programme, The Telegraph, Sky News, BBC, The Guardian, Newsnight and Press Association all note that the Government is reviewing its current work with Oxfam following these allegations and...
The Independent on Sunday has today reported on comments made by the chairman of the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board (PCB) to campaigner Paula Donovan, who runs the Code Blue Campaign....
...concerned, taxpayers’ money ‘spent well’ won’t cut it. To address their concerns we must show that their money cannot be better spent. So as we begin the New Year, I...
...new skills and creating new innovations. “And that can be said for so many other organisations whether they sit in the private sector the public sector or the third sector....