What is shaping public support for international cooperation? This blog highlights four insights from Bond’s latest research into how the British public feel about “aid”. Jess Crombie, senior lecturer at UAL, and Bond’s Maryam Mohsin writes.
In the UK, there is still a strong moral instinct to support people facing poverty and crisis. But public engagement is under pressure from low trust, doubts about effectiveness and a lack of connection to people’s everyday concerns. This report brings together 18 months of research on how the British public understands and engages with overseas "aid" and advice about what we can do about it.
We now have a clear idea of where upcoming ODA cuts will fall – and it’s a brutal picture. Lena Cohrs at Bond asks: Will the new Burnham government take the bold steps needed to get the UK’s development ambitions back on track?
Our CEO, Romilly Greenhill, shares six key takeaways from a conference seen as an important opportunity to review key aspects of the future of development cooperation. Did we see any real progress?
As the UK government implements its cuts to ODA, the newly released Statistics for International Development (SIDs) offer important spending insights on these reductions. Here are the key takeaways.
As the impact of the UK’s decision to slash international development funding really starts to hit home, NGOs are pushing to shift decision-making over projects to local people, Romilly Greenhill writes.
More than a year since the Prime Minister announced drastic cuts to the UK aid budget from 0.5% to just 0.3% of GNI by 2027/28 – the steepest among G7 countries – last week the Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper MP made a long-awaited statement to set out the FCDO’s ODA allocation for 2026/27 to 2028/29. Here is our analysis.
