The Observer reports today (29 October 2017) that Gaston Browne, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, claims his country is being overlooked in the Hurricane Irma and Maria relief efforts...
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...
Today’s Daily Mail reports the UK is one of seven nations to hit the target of spending 0.7% of national income on international development. Its story is based on a...
Today, as reported across the BBC and other outlets, the International Development Secretary has announced the UK’s replenishment of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) at a conference in Dakar...
There is continued media coverage today (Sunday 11 February) of allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse by Oxfam staff in Haiti in 2011 and other charity workers. The International Development...
Today (20 February), the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) published a review into how well the Department for International Development spends money. Its findings were broadly positive, saying DFID...
...this room today, and all the good works done? For be in no doubt that is what has happened. It may have started with an attitude born of fundraising pressures,...
The Observer/Guardian has today reported on a letter sent by 23 aid agencies to the Chancellor which sets out how they believe the UK's aid budget should be spent. The...
...the UK’s national interest. Today's coverage focuses on a report on the fund by the Independent Commission For Aid Impact (ICAI). ICAI acknowledges in the report that “research and innovation...
There is coverage in The Times and Sky News today of International Development Secretary Rory Stewart’s plans to put climate and the environment front and centre of the Department for...