The UK will provide emergency medical support and help protect medical facilities in Syria, international development secretary Penny Mordaunt said yesterday.
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.
The UK’s aid spending is “chaotic”, Labour’s shadow international development secretary has said, setting out her own ‘feminist’ plan for global development.
The UK government should have been better prepared to assist overseas territories hit by hurricanes in September, the Foreign Affairs Committee has said.
The Department of International Development will help promote transparency in developing countries and international programmes to improve accountability through a new initiative.
The UK’s £225m pledge to the “global learning crisis” is disappointing and falls short of what was expected, MPs on the International Development Committee have said.
The UK could cut aid for richer developing countries that fail to “take responsibility” and do not invest in their own people, the international development secretary Penny Mordaunt has said.
Donor countries should spend significantly more on global education to close the $1.8trn funding gap and help countries progress out of poverty, British MPs have said.
The UK should double its aid spending on research and development to ensure post-Brexit Britain becomes a world technology leader, a think-tank has said.
The announcement of funding for the UK’s development finance institution last week should have come with a commitment to transparency about how overseas development money is spent, argues...
The UK government has released £32m emergency aid to its overseas territories hit by hurricane Irma and is providing extra emergency support, such as 'shelter kits'.
The United Nations has released $150,000 in emergency aid relief to Sierra Leone after fatal mudslides in the country, the global organisation announced yesterday.
British government departments have been asked to propose projects for overseas aid where there is clear potential for high-impact work in financial services, insurance, business services,...
The UK government needs to ensure all departments are supported to spend Office Development Assistance responsibly and effectively, national auditors said today.
The UK’s aid agency this week launches new funding schemes for small charities and projects focused on diversity, inclusion and eliminating the drivers of intolerance.
The UK is to spend £75m ($95m) on tackling the migration crisis in the Mediterranean over the next three years, prime minister Theresa May will announce tomorrow.
The government's emphasis on serving the UK's national interest through its aid work takes away from its effectiveness in reducing global poverty, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
