Public Support

Last week, Bond and more than 20 of our members, travelled to Seville alongside government, UN, global civil society and business representatives for the Fourth International Financing for Development Conference (FfD4). Here, Alex Farley, Sandra Martinsone and our members take us through the events of the conference.

Slippery concept or not, the government needs to show leadership and the development sector needs to pull its socks up to get the public on side of UK aid.

With over 14 million people involved in formal volunteering and 61% charities struggling to recruit volunteers, what can a researcher do to make any meaningful difference to volunteer recruitment. Susannah Pickering-Saqqa introduces Volunteer, Reflect, Grow: Cards to inspire and sustain volunteering, which has been designed to help.

Zero Malaria are on a mission to eradicate malaria for good. But they need the voting public and the government on board. In this blog they discuss their new campaign to drum up support for this achievable mission.

Analysis from the Development Engagement Lab on current public attitudes towards recent cuts to Official Development Assistance, and how it might backfire on the government.

In their new report, Charity campaigning – where next? The International Broadcasting Trust (IBT) looks at the changing campaigning landscape and what steps NGOs can take to become more effective. IBT’s Mark Galloway, tells us more.

It’s a laudable aim to engage groups who have lost faith in international institutions and “meet them where they are at” as the We The Helpers campaign set out to do. But we have a duty to move towards greater understanding and global solidarity.

This year’s Sheila McKechnie Foundation (SMK) UK Campaigner Survey hoped to find organisations resisting the urge to withdraw into their shells to avoid criticism. What they discovered was even more reassuring. SMK’s Chloe Hardy tells us more.