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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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    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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  • A young mother at awareness raising session in Mauritania
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    The UK’s expertise on aid is still needed for Europe’s development work

    With EU states missing the 0.7% aid spending target, the UK has an opportunity to influence the development work of fellow European countries.

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Aid hub

International aid forms an important part of a complex set of international development interventions that aim to lift people out of poverty and support countries to become self-sustaining.

This hub brings together the most useful aid resources to support those wanting to stand up for aid, and it gathers the latest news and views about international aid.

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Aid resources

Rohingya children in Bangladesh refugee camp supported by UK aid

International aid in brief

This accessible briefing for MPs covers essential information on UK aid, explaining what it is, how it is spent and why it is so important in the fight to eradicate extreme poverty.
19 September 2018
Esperenze Ndabuye, 30 has 9 children. Esperenze and her eldest daughter were raped after being shot to prevent them escaping when soldiers broke into their home

Gender-based violence programming in contexts affected by violence and conflict

Christian Aid's report on gender-based violence identifies the most effective strategies for aid workers to use when challenging the disproportionate violence inflicted on women, girls and the LGBTQI community.
28 August 2018
Man stands in destroyed Tacloban after Typhoon Haiyan

Lessons learnt in participatory disaster risk reduction planning

Learnings based on Tearfund's response to Typhoon Haiyan, which hit South East Asia in 2013.
8 August 2018
Displaced people crossing the border from Ivory Coast to Liberia

Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2018

The Global Humanitarian Assistance Report navigates through the financing landscape, looking in detail at where resources are needed, who they come from, where they go and how they get there
19 June 2018
Beekeeper in Guatemala

DFID’s approach to value for money in programme and portfolio management

This report from ICAI finds that DFID's approach to value for money helps to make UK aid spending go further, but there is room for improvement.
21 February 2018
Digital world and connections

Donor Tracker

The Donor Tracker is an online resource that offers free, independent, up-to-date analysis of 14 major OECD donors.
9 February 2018

Aid news and views from Bond

Conference centre

What's going on at party conferences 2018

Listing the fringe events being hosted by Bond members and allies at the Labour and Conservative party conferences in September.
20 September 2018
Palace of Westminster

UK aid spending: government rejects recommendations for accountability

Despite the IDC’s recommendations, the UK government has rejected crucial recommendations for any government department investing UK aid to be accountable to DFID.
13 September 2018
Theresa May and Cyril Ramaphosa delivering a speech in Cape Town

4 funding announcements from the PM’s trip to Africa

Theresa May announces funding for stability, economic prosperity and family planning while visiting Africa to promote UK trade after Brexit.
6 September 2018