The UK’s new international secretary Rory Stewart has got off to a good start but there is still much he can do to improve the department, says the ODI’s Simon Gill.
The United Kingdom’s aid budget faces cuts if rival candidates to lead the ruling Conservative Party turn it into a “political football”, an MP has claimed.
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”.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
