Publish What You Fund’s launch of the bi-annual Aid transparency Index is today. So how has the UK faired against its transparency commitments? Elma Jenkins takes us through the numbers.
It is important that the new government is clear-eyed about the challenges it faces in rebuilding the UK’s ODA ambitions and reputation. Our Director of Policy, Advocacy and Research Gideon Rabinowitz takes us through the best place to start.
Following Labour’s victory in the general election, our CEO Romilly Greenhill welcomes the new government, and offers a list of priorities for their first days in office to help the UK get back on track with international development and humanitarian issue.
the most recent OECD-DAC review of the UK’s performance illustrates the problems with donors essentially marking their own homework, which reinforces calls for radically reforming this body and creating a more accountable aid system.
Following the release of the provisional UK aid statistics, we look at what the numbers reveal, including a sustained heavy spend from the Home Office, and how that has effected work on poverty reduction.
While we are waiting to see the official development assistance numbers for 2023 and how the government plans to deliver the White Paper on International Development, what are the other issues we will look out for as 2024 progresses?
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Development Assistance Committee recently published its final aid data for 2022, and it’s not good news for the world’s least-developed and low-income countries. Euan Ritchie of Development Initiatives takes us through the numbers.
There are promising signs that how we spend Official Development Assistance is set to improve in 2024 following a flurry of positive developments late this year. But if the government are to keep to there new agenda, do the numbers add up without 0.7%? Abigael Baldoumas tells us more.
Following the release of the UK government White Paper on international development last week, we ask some of our working groups to analyse what was contained, and highlight what was missing.