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29 Mar 19
The UK has committed an additional £200 million of aid to war-torn Yemen so far this year to help tackle the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
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7 Mar 19
The UK has announced it will give £2m aid support to organisations around the world as part of a campaign to end period poverty.
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28 Feb 19
The UK should set up a development bank to fund long-term projects after leaving the European Union to stay a leading aid actor, an MP has urged.
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26 Feb 19
The UK government is to provide an additional £200m of aid to Yemen, where millions of people are suffering in what has been called the “world’s worst humanitarian crisis”.
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22 Feb 19
The UK has announced a £30m funding package to boost security, fair elections and trade in Africa.
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19 Feb 19
The UK government is to give a £47m package of support to developing countries to boost their tax systems.
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15 Feb 19
The UK has donated £6.5m to deliver medicines and clean water to people affected by the crisis in Venezuela.
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14 Feb 19
Swiss NGOs face losing out on European Union aid funds – and UK organisations could be in the same boat – after Brussels indicated that only member states will be eligible.
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12 Feb 19
Calls for a multi-billion-pound cut in the UK’s foreign aid budget and the abolition of the Department for International Development are a “recipe for disaster”, NGOs have warned.
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5 Feb 19
The UK has become the first donor to a new fund aimed at reviving Iraq’s economy and rebuilding damaged hospitals, schools and infrastructure.
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5 Feb 19
The government’s “inconsistent” spending of its aid budget is undermining efforts to tackle extreme poverty, a campaign group has warned.
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24 Jan 19
The UK is giving £2.5m to support the United Nation’s peace process in the war-torn country of Yemen.
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14 Nov 18
The UK could follow Donald Trump’s lead and stop funding Unesco, the UN’s cultural and education body, saving £11.1m a year.
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9 Nov 18
The UK is giving £50m to help stop mothers and babies dying in childbirth in developing countries.
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14 Sep 18
Civil society organisations have expressed disappointment the UK government has not heeded the advice of a group of MPs on aid spending.
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28 Aug 18
The UK government has pledged £4bn worth of funding to Africa as it looks to deepen economic ties with the continent, the prime minister has announced.
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24 Aug 18
The UK will compensate British NGOs for any loss of EU aid funding in the event of a ‘no deal’ Brexit, the government has said in a letter to the charities.
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31 Jul 18
More of the money donated to international charities – including from governments around the world - should go towards making it easier to whistleblow against charity sector abuse.
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13 Jul 18
While there is a desire to continue providing international aid, it is important the EU and UK do not reduce their Official Development Assistance because of Brexit, say campaigners Nasim Salad and...
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22 Jun 18
The way the UK spends its international aid budget will be “reset” to help the world’s poor and win back the trust of “sceptical” British taxpayers, Penny Mordaunt has said.
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29 May 18
The UK has pledged an extra £5m to tackle the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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1 May 18
With not-for-profit organisations as worried as the next sector about their life post-Brexit, some have been moving from the UK to a ‘safe hub’ in a bid to protect funding streams. Simone Rensch...
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27 Apr 18
The UK will provide emergency medical support and help protect medical facilities in Syria, international development secretary Penny Mordaunt said yesterday.
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12 Apr 18
UK overseas aid will be diverted away from “governments who can afford to, yet choose not to, invest in their own people”, international development secretary Penny Mordaunt has said.
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27 Mar 18
The UK’s aid spending is “chaotic”, Labour’s shadow international development secretary has said, setting out her own ‘feminist’ plan for global development.