UK’s ongoing response to Cyclone Idai
...due to leave the UK for Mozambique from Heathrow Airport today to help assess the health needs of the cyclone-hit region. Al Jazeera, the Gulf Times, The Sunday Times in...
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Ending FGM: UK aid makes largest ever investment
Today, DFID has announced £50 million of new funding to end female genital mutilation (FGM), the largest investment ever made to end FGM worldwide. The funding will support the African-led...
Penny Mordaunt sets out vision for UK aid post Brexit
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International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt spoke today at the Department for International Development’s Investment Arm, CDC, about how the private sector can support international development globally. In a speech which...
DFID acquires £4.4 million from corruption case to tackle poverty in Chad
Today, The Times reports that £4.4 million recovered in a corruption case by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is going to be transferred to DFID to help people in desperate...
Syria: 7 years on
International Development Secretary and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson issued a joint statement today to mark seven years of the conflict in Syria. They drew particular attention to the dire humanitarian...
Tackling plastic pollution in the world’s oceans
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...
The latest on the UK’s hurricane response: 1 October 2017
UK relief efforts in the aftermath of the hurricanes continued this weekend with the arrival of HMS Ocean in the Turks and Caicos islands today (Sunday 1 October). So far...
UK response to Hurricane Maria: 20 September 2017
There has been further media coverage today about Hurricane Maria which is hitting islands across the Caribbean. This is only the second time two category five hurricanes have been in...
Modernising international aid rules
...or natural disasters. Today’s agreement is a real step forward. Progress on this, and the other reforms we have confirmed today - including boosting aid for UN peacekeeping missions -...
International Development Statistics 2017
Today’s newspapers feature coverage of a number projects funded by the UK’s international development budget. It comes after annual stats were published yesterday, which detail how much the UK is...