Centre for Global Disaster Protection
...by UK aid being distributed in Haiti in 2016. Picture: Carey Wagner/CARE Why is this important? New research shows that disasters like hurricanes and severe droughts cost $30 billion a...
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DFID in the News: Call for bold tech ideas to help deliver aid in conflict zones
...a new fund with USAID to find new technology solutions and innovations to save lives in conflict zones. I urge any business or group with a bold idea to apply.”...
Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting
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...announces £5.5m boost to end modern slavery in Commonwealth – The Independent Online Helping nations move from aid to trade as part of our new development offer, by unveiling new...
Penny Mordaunt sets out vision for UK aid post Brexit
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...growth, while meeting high social and environmental standards. “And we are developing a new partnership, with the City of London Corporation in designing new financing mechanisms that will help mobilise...
Nobody does humanitarian aid better than Britain - International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt
Today the International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt announced a new package of support for the United Nations’ Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), warning that 2018 could be the bleakest year...
UK-Saudi Arabia development partnership
An editorial published by the Guardian yesterday (Monday 12 March) and a news story last week focussed on a partnership between Saudi Arabia and DFID to work in developing countries....
International Development Secretary’s statement to Parliament on Oxfam and safeguarding in the aid sector
...hold the UN to account for this. Further actions we have taken in the last week include the creation of a new Safeguarding Unit. We have also promoted our whistleblowing...
International Development Secretary on Oxfam and UK action to tackle sexual exploitation in the aid sector
...this work. This builds on the changes we have made to introduce tough sanctions for human rights abuses including sexual exploitation for all new contracts with suppliers and new training...
Penny Mordaunt on working closely with the Ministry of Defence and doing our bit for Commonwealth Veterans
...“defence, diplomacy and development are inter-reliant on each other”. She highlighted a “new approach” that involves much more explicit co-designed and co-funded projects between the Department for International Development (DFID)...
UK raises its annual contribution to Global Partnership for Education by 50%
...three years - over half of whom will be in fragile or conflict affected states; train 170,000 teachers; build 2400 new classrooms; and distribute more than 20 million new textbooks....