Penny Mordaunt calls for end to FGM by 2030
...News at 10 by international affairs editor Rageh Omaar. She set out how the UK is supporting the growing Africa-led movement to end FGM by 2030. She also spoke about...
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UK aid spending in 2017
...the Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh and famine in South Sudan. UK aid spending in all these countries went up in 2017. At the same time UK aid has shifted away...
How UK aid is making it easier for suppliers to bid for contracts
...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,...
Suspended Foreign Office aid programme in Syria
...unscrupulous practices. Specific reforms include: A robust Code of Conduct to ensure the highest standards of ethical and professional behaviour by DFID suppliers, with legally enforceable sanctions. Tougher scrutiny of...
Independent on Sunday on tackling sexual harassment and abuse at UNAIDS
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....
Sexual exploitation by Oxfam staff in Haiti
...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...
Rory Stewart announces UK aid’s biggest ever single direct commitment to tackle climate change in Africa
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Rory Stewart meets communities in Kenya. Picture: Will Crowne/DFID The International Development Secretary Rory Stewart announced a new UK aid package to help tackle climate change across Africa, during a...
UK aid to help stop violence against a million women and girls
...world’s poorest women and girls. The seven-year project will challenge violent behaviour against women and girls across Africa, the Middle East and Asia. It will build on a successful pilot,...
DFID on spending UK aid on infrastructure in developing countries
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Africa, Infrastructure, Official Development Assistance
...and urban infrastructure work supports its strategic priorities of promoting prosperity, tackling extreme poverty, and strengthening resilience in developing countries,” adding that “DFID has clearly identified its niche in the...
Ebola outbreak in DRC: How the UK is helping to tackle the crisis
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Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Health
...the international response, led by the Government of DRC and the World Health Organisation (WHO), building on our experience supporting the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa. We remain one...