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...
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...
International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt stands with the Caribbean and Overseas Territories to build back better Over the weekend and today (Monday 20 November 2017), newspapers and online news outlets...
...basis. It is smart to spend money now, so we don’t have to spend much more later.” The Secretary of State’s words and pledge was carried on Sky News and...
Rory Stewart meets communities in Kenya. Picture: Will Crowne/DFID The International Development Secretary Rory Stewart announced a new UK aid package to help tackle climate change across Africa, during a...
...for the world’s least-developed countries, would depend on this approach. The paper explains how Britain is one of the few countries to meet the United Nations target for spending 0.7%...
...bidding for any new UK Government funding until DFID is satisfied that they can meet the high standards we expect of all our partners. “We made our expectations clear at...
The International Development Secretary Alok Sharma has announced a new UK aid programme, What Works to Prevent Violence: Impact at Scale, to help stop violence against one million of the...
...still exists in Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan, with 11 new cases this year. This last push will help break the relentless cycle of poverty for millions more children so they...
As the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced that Raqqa has been liberated from Daesh, a new UK aid package will clear deadly landmines and restore hospitals and medical treatment for...
...its development spending on modern slavery to £150 million. This will enable more work in collaboration with source and transit countries to clamp down on this barbaric crime. New estimates...