How UK aid is helping girls around the world
...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...
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International Development Secretary on Oxfam and UK action to tackle sexual exploitation in the aid sector
There is continued media coverage today (Monday 12 February) of allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse by Oxfam staff in Haiti in 2011 and other charity workers. In a statement...
Penny Mordaunt calls for end to FGM by 2030
...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...
Vital UK aid arrives in Palu
...frequency of flights into Palu and the amount of aid they can bring in. A DFID team today fixed aircraft loading equipment at Palu airport, reducing the time it takes...
The private sector can unlock Africa’s promise - Alok Sharma
...prosperous place for everyone, everywhere by 2030. We cannot do this alone. We must mobilise private sector investment. So today, I am announcing £90m of UK aid that will help...
Penny Mordaunt on working closely with the Ministry of Defence and doing our bit for Commonwealth Veterans
Today, the International Development Secretary gave a speech at Policy Exchange in London today (Thursday 28 June 2018) setting out how development and defence can work more closely together and...
UK leads fightback against infectious diseases
...creating an international alliance, which says not ‘winner takes all’ but the opposite which is that this is critically important for all of us.” BBC Radio 4’s The Today Programme...
What UK aid is doing to help stop the spread of Ebola
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Today (Monday 19 August), World Humanitarian Day, International Development Secretary Alok Sharma announced he would allocate £8 million of UK aid for Ebola preparedness for the countries neighbouring the DRC...
Spending 0.7% on UK aid - and in the national interest
The Today Programme and The Guardian have today (Monday 11 February 2019) both covered the launch of a report by Bob Seely MP and James Rogers from the Henry Jackson...
BBC's day of coverage from Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh
...diphtheria thanks to British medics supported by UK aid. Picture: Russell Watkins/DFID Alongside the vaccination announcement the Today Programme aired a day in the life piece with Holly Gettings, an...