Let’s empower girls across the world - Alok Sharma writes in The Voice
...That is what 16-year-old Mekdes told me during my first trip to Ethiopia. Mekdes is one of 10 inspiring girls I met who has learnt how to code during a...
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DFID use of statistics
Today’s copy (5 January) of The Times reports that the UK has ‘lied’ about ending poverty for millions of people in the poorest countries. The headline is unfair and the...
Suspended Foreign Office aid programme in Syria
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)....
Sexual exploitation by Oxfam staff in Haiti
...informed us that the Country Director had resigned and reported that six other members of staff had been involved in a number of breaches of Oxfam’s code of conduct. They...
Independent on Sunday on tackling sexual harassment and abuse at UNAIDS
...to change. “We have been very clear that we will not work with any organisation that does not live up to the high standards on safeguarding and protection that we...
Alok Sharma looks forward to 'milestone' summit
...UK-Africa Investment Summit in today's Daily Telegraph (January 1, 2020). Knocking on doors in my Reading West constituency during the general election, I heard very clearly that people were ready...
How UK aid is making it easier for suppliers to bid for contracts
...for businesses to work with us. This includes ending agreements that stopped them bidding as part of more than one consortium. We also have requirements in our Code of Conduct,...
How UK aid is helping girls around the world
...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...
UK aid is vital, but our ultimate goal is to help countries support themselves
...my trip to Ethiopia, I met inspiring girls learning how to code during a summer camp, backed by UK aid. Mekdes, who is 16, told me “education is a weapon...
International Development Secretary on Oxfam and UK action to tackle sexual exploitation in the aid sector
...actions going forward – rather than of their commitments in one meeting today - that I and others will judge them. I was clear that part of an organisation’s moral...