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    PM pledges 0.7% aid spending must serve UK’s interests

    Theresa May announces that UK aid will be used to further private sector investment in Africa and to serve the UK's national security interests.

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    Stats on international development: how UK aid was spent in 2017

    Stats published by DFID show that the UK met the 0.7% Official Development Assistance target last year.

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  • Boy in Uganda playing with string
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    OECD-DAC reform: Changing the rules for the better, not worse

    Amy Dodd from the UK Aid Network discusses why changing the rules on how aid can be spent risks having a negative impact on people's lives.

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Refugees in Unchiprang camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

Official Development Assistance data for 2017

This factsheet analyses the 2017 statistics on official development assistance spending.
22 December 2018
Child in Yemen

The State of the Humanitarian System 2018

An independent study compiling the latest statistics and analysis on the size, shape and scope of the humanitarian system and assessing overall performance and progress.
18 December 2018
Crowd at Oxford Circus station in London

A sceptical public and hostile media attitudes

Experts debate the relationship between media attitudes and the British public’s declining trust in NGOs.
13 November 2018
Refugee camp in Bangladesh

From Voices to Choices

This report explores the dynamics of decision-making in humanitarian aid, looking at the trends that could move us (or prevent us from moving) to a system where people affected by crises are taking the decisions about the aid that they receive.
8 November 2018
Emmanuel, village chief and entrepreneur in CAR

The State of UK Aid 2017

This report looks at UK aid through the lens of its primary and fundamental purpose – to target and eliminate poverty.
1 May 2017
Group of rural women in Guatemala

AidWatch 2018

CONCORD's annual AidWatch report monitors and makes recommendations on the quality and quantity of aid provided by EU member states.
17 October 2018

Aid news and views from Bond

Refugee woman with her rabbits in Bangladesh

OECD releases final overseas aid figures for 2017

The latest figures from the OECD show that worldwide Official Development Assistance fell slightly in 2017 to a total of $144.7bn.
9 January 2019
UK aid in Burma

What does the new aid effectiveness report mean for UK aid?

A new report measuring aid effectiveness finds that the UK is beginning to fall behind when it comes to aid quality.
20 December 2018
Family in Kenya

7 things we liked in November

We see interesting things from our members and the sector every day, so we’ve picked out some of our favourite events, reports and stories from November. 
30 November 2018