Bond news

Happy new year! After yet another tough year in 2025, our CEO, Romilly Greenhill, looks ahead to 2026, highlighting the key moments, themes and transformations, before offering a call for togetherness.

Among the cuts to Official Development Assistance (ODA), humanitarian crises escalating around the world and the complete gutting of USAID, we’ve worked incredibly hard to support our members and advocate for those in danger of being left behind around the world. Here are 12 things we’re proud of 2025.

On 6 January, we welcomed MPs back to parliament by holding a reception for new and existing parliamentarian development champions. Here is a run down of what happened from our public affairs adviser Eden Kulig.

2024 was a year of seismic electoral change, escalating global crises and, as ever, a tough year for international development. But, at the same time, we have had an incredibly busy, productive and rewarding year. Here are twelve things we’re proud of.

After another busy and productive year for Bond’s 40 working groups, we hear from Aid Effectiveness, Child’s Rights, Communications, Disability and Development, Ethical Storytelling, EU Funding and Policy, Funding, Impact Investing, International Financial Architecture, Safeguarding and Transparency groups about what they’ve been up to, and what’s ahead in 2025.

Over conference season, we met with political supporters, supported our members advocacy efforts, and ensured international development remained a key topic at the conferences. Here are some key takeaways.

Bond’s working groups outline the issues that the new UK government must prioritise to bring in a more effective era of UK overseas development assistance.

At Bond, over the last few months we’ve been working to develop our sector manifesto, ‘A Global System for People and Planet’, which will be launched at an event in Parliament this evening. Here is how we put it together.