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Action For Humanity has released its new report, Returning To Hope: One Year After Liberation, highlighting the stark reality facing families and outlining the urgent steps required to stabilise high-return areas. The report reflects 14 years of Action For Humanity’s work alongside Syrian communities, one of the largest locally embedded humanitarian efforts in the country.
Amid major political shifts, global pressures and ongoing humanitarian emergencies, Bond’s working groups have continued to convene, collaborate and push for meaningful progress. As the year draws to a close, we asked our working group chairs to reflect on 2025 and share their priorities and aspirations for 2026. Here’s what they told us:
What started off as a year of cautious optimism turned into an incredibly difficult one for international development in the world of UK politics. Paul Abernethy takes us through a seesaw year, with aid cuts, political polarisation and party conference seasons, before looking ahead to 2026.
Yesterday, Tuesday 9th December 2025, senior civil servants at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) were questioned by both…
As today marks international Human Rights Day, it is a moment to reflect on the commitments made to uphold the rights and dignity of all people. Among some of the most urgent of these injustices is Female genital mutilation, a practice that affects 230 million girls and women worldwide.
It’s been a year of difficult conversations, shrinking resources, and moments where the gap between what we say and stand for and what we’re able to deliver has felt unbearably wide. But it’s also been a year that has clarified, for Bond’s Mustafa Al-Soufi at least, what this work is really about—and what it demands of us.
Today, Monday 8th December, the UK government Justice Secretary, David Lammy MP, formally announced that the UK will host a major international…
Following a year where the official development assistance budget was cut once again, there are so many questions the government still need to answer to get their vision for international development and humanitarian assistance back on track. Alex Farley takes us through another tumultuous year, and looks at what needs to be addressed in 2026.
After yet another year of global unrest and shrinking civic space, Bond’s Rowan Popplewell takes us through how civil society and civic space has been under fire throughout 2025, and offers a message of solidarity.
