...summer camp, backed by UK aid. In just three weeks, girls are creating new apps that could change Ethiopia’s future. Some of them had never used a computer before. Madher,...
...kits, was delivered aboard a New Zealand C-130 flight yesterday (Saturday, October 6), flown in from Balikpapan, the main operational hub for relief efforts. This morning, an additional 288 solar...
...growth, while meeting high social and environmental standards. “And we are developing a new partnership, with the City of London Corporation in designing new financing mechanisms that will help mobilise...
This article by International Development Secretary Alok Sharma first appeared in the Times Red Box on 17 January 2020: We cannot achieve great change – either socially or economically –...
...and then published in line with guidance from OSR’s Code of Practice for Statistics. The nature of DFID’s work, especially in conflict states such as Syria, can make obtaining accurate...
Today (Monday 4 December 2017), the BBC, Today Programme, Mail, Times and other newspapers reported on a Foreign Office aid programme in Syria run by contractor Adam Smith International (ASI)....
International Development Secretary Alok Sharma meets girls learning how to code during a trip to Ethiopia. Picture: DFID/Anna Dubuis International Development Secretary Alok Sharma wrote this piece about the upcoming...
This article by International Development Secretary Alok Sharma appeared in Prospect Magazine on 5 November 2019. The world is rapidly changing—and with it, we face new global challenges. 131 million...
An opinion piece in The Daily Telegraph over the weekend, which suggested the UK government was making it difficult for companies to apply for public sector contracts, does not give...
...teenage girls learning to code. One of them told him: “Education is a weapon that can change the world.” “She’s right”, he said, but added that “millions of girls around...