The UK has pledged to help Ethiopia transform its tax system and become less reliant on aid, the Department for International Development has announced.
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.
The UK has committed £250m over the next four years to tackling environmental challenges, such as reducing plastic in the oceans and fighting illegal wildlife trade.
The UK government has pledged £23.5m to help Asian regions better forecast natural disasters, the Department for International Development announced yesterday.
The UK and Saudi Arabia are to partner up to boost economic development and infrastructure in some of the world’s poorest drought and conflict-hit countries.
The UK government should have been better prepared to assist overseas territories hit by hurricanes in September, the Foreign Affairs Committee has said.
The UK will withhold funding from the United Nations if it does not take action amid allegations of sexual misconduct by aid workers, the secretary for international development has warned.
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.
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.
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 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.
The UK’s commitment to spending 0.7% of its national income on aid would not be scrapped under a new Conservative government, prime minister Theresa May has said.
International development secretary Priti Patel has announced £205m in new funding for treatable tropical diseases that receive little international attention.
“Appalling” behaviour by UK aid contractors is facilitated by a hands-off approach to procurement by the country’s aid department, Britain’s parliamentary aid watchdog has...
Too much focus on effective spending could be limiting the potential of the UK’s £12bn aid budget, the country’s parliamentary aid watchdog has warned.
Two UK government aid funds worth a combined £2.3bn ($2.9bn) have come under fire today for a lack of transparency and "serious risks" around value for money.
