...announces £5.5m boost to end modern slavery in Commonwealth – The Independent Online Helping nations move from aid to trade as part of our new development offer, by unveiling new...
...United Nations in New York. The review explores the work being done by the UK government, individuals, charities, businesses and other organisations to achieve the 17 Global Goals. When the...
Last week (Wednesday 24 July) Alok Sharma MP was appointed Secretary of State for International Development and welcomed his new Ministerial team to DFID. On his arrival, Mr Sharma said:...
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...
At the UK-France Summit today, the Prime Minister will announce a closer partnership with the French to tackle devastating poverty and bring stability to the Sahel area of Africa. As...
...hold the UN to account for this. Further actions we have taken in the last week include the creation of a new Safeguarding Unit. We have also promoted our whistleblowing...
...this work. This builds on the changes we have made to introduce tough sanctions for human rights abuses including sexual exploitation for all new contracts with suppliers and new training...
...“defence, diplomacy and development are inter-reliant on each other”. She highlighted a “new approach” that involves much more explicit co-designed and co-funded projects between the Department for International Development (DFID)...
...three years - over half of whom will be in fragile or conflict affected states; train 170,000 teachers; build 2400 new classrooms; and distribute more than 20 million new textbooks....
The UK recently announced new support to the Rohingya crisis – which forced more than 700,000 people to flee their homes in the face of violence in Myanmar. In August...