Centre for Global Disaster Protection

Today, International Development Minister Lord Bates is speaking at a Global Insurance Forum event. He will outline the UK’s partnership with the World Bank and Germany for the Centre for...
Today, International Development Minister Lord Bates is speaking at a Global Insurance Forum event. He will outline the UK’s partnership with the World Bank and Germany for the Centre for...
Today, the Mail on Sunday has reported on the “slump” of the British pound since Brexit, which the paper claims has in turn caused the Government to “lose tens of...
Today, the Daily Mail has reported that the UK gives £2 billion to 17 countries on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's (FCO) list of 30 Human Rights Priority Countries. The...
Today (14 August 2017) the Daily Mail has reported on House of Commons Speaker John Bercow’s decision to give the Speaker’s Democracy Award to Pakistani MP Marvi Memon for her...
...announced a £7 million package to tackle modern slavery in Nigeria, which was covered in today’s The Times. Visual news stories, images and comments from the Secretary of State have...
Today, (Saturday, 2 September) the Daily Mail has reported on £1.6 million worth of medication that was not used following the Ebola crisis three years ago. The UK led the...
...follow Britain’s lead and make polio history.” Polio was wiped out in the UK in the 1980s and there are more than 100,000 British survivors today. Globally, the wild poliovirus...
Today’s Daily Express front page story (26 October, 2017) reported on claims that the costs of health tourism should be met by the international development budget. In response DFID would...
The Daily Express published an article today claiming that 10,000 people have signed their online petition for the government to reduce the foreign aid budget. The newspaper claims that this...
The Daily Express has published an article today highlighting how the aid budget is spent across government. The piece outlines how the Department for International Development spends three quarters of...