The Prime Minister’s announcement yesterday that the UK is using its aid budget to help find a coronavirus vaccine, has been widely covered in media. Much coverage featured his plea...
The Guardian, BBC’s Focus on Africa and BBC Newsday have reported on new UK support to tackle the devastating locust outbreak in East Africa, featuring a UK-funded supercomputer that is...
...saved $500 million and helped to triple implant use in developing countries. “This shows that Britain’s commitment to spending 0.7 per cent of our gross national income on aid is...
...so powerful about What Works is that it is not only showing we are preventing violence, but that these impacts are being achieved over two to three years. Strong evidence...
...effort.” The Telegraph reported that: “Three humanitarian experts from Britain were deployed to assist efforts, the Department for International Development (DFID) said, arriving on the islands on Tuesday”. This coverage...
...Africa, people who have experience of planning infrastructure, of delivering infrastructure, financing infrastructure, getting them together and saying: ‘How can we do this better? How do we use what we’ve...
...an active conflict zone. It is appalling that they are routinely targeted and attacked. And that is why today, on World Humanitarian Day, I want to highlight the important work...
...and research but called for more to be done to create a truly feminist global humanitarian aid system that tackles “the structures of power that create inequalities between men and...
...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...
...could be ready by January 2021, with initial use prioritised for healthcare workers and the most vulnerable. Dr Saville went on to say that aid was also being used to...