It seems clear that it’s time for a new approach to financing for sustainable development rooted in justice and human rights. The Fourth International Financing for Sustainable Development Conference poses a great chance to get back on track.
Publish What You Fund’s launch of the bi-annual Aid transparency Index is today. So how has the UK faired against its transparency commitments? Elma Jenkins takes us through the numbers.
Following the publication of their latest study, Huib Huyse and Lara Helsen of HIVA-KU Leuven look at what other European countries have in common with the tumultuous development cooperation trajectory of the UK over the previous five years.
the most recent OECD-DAC review of the UK’s performance illustrates the problems with donors essentially marking their own homework, which reinforces calls for radically reforming this body and creating a more accountable aid system.
Following the release of the provisional UK aid statistics, we look at what the numbers reveal, including a sustained heavy spend from the Home Office, and how that has effected work on poverty reduction.
The brutal conflict in Sudan is approaching it’s one-year anniversary. Mercy Corps’ Rebecca Gibbons tells us why it’s time for the UK government to scale up funding in Sudan and help tackle the ongoing famine.
While we are waiting to see the official development assistance numbers for 2023 and how the government plans to deliver the White Paper on International Development, what are the other issues we will look out for as 2024 progresses?
Humanitarians are being constrained by geopolitical agendas of donor states and the growing assertion of national sovereignty. What, then, can humanitarians hope to achieve? Watch this webinar with expert speakers from University of Bath, Dr Mathilde Maîtrot, Dr Touseef Mir and Dr Naomi Pendle who discuss the good, the bad and the ugly of humanitarian principles and practice.
Two years on from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the humanitarian effort is still being lead by international organisations as opposed to locals. It is time to divert our funding and our attention.
