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Bond reacts to Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband’s speech at Labour Party Conference
In response to the Foreign Secretary’s speech at Labour Party Conference, Romilly Greenhill, CEO of Bond, the UK network for…
The humanitarian system doesn’t need to “empower” local communities. It needs to enable them.
The idea of “empowerment” is prominent in humanitarian and development discourse. But it is time to look more closely at what we mean by it, argues Myriam Castaneda Solares at Start Network.
Safeguarding and the responsibility to bear witness
Hannah Moysey at Blue State asks: How do we safeguard people without smoothing over the reality of a crisis or losing our responsibility to bear witness?
Politicians aren’t listening to the public on aid. They’re listening to the media.
New research suggests politicians are mistaking critical media coverage about ODA for public opinion. Correcting this misconception could be a gamechanger, argues Professor Martin Scott and Dr Paul Clist.
Why is debt restructuring important?
Save the Children UK and Debt Justice UK outline the six critical reforms needed to fix the G20 Common Framework, the mechanism lower-income countries can use to restructure their debts.
As UK aid fell by almost £1bn in 2025, bilateral funding for least-developed countries fell while increasing to middle-income countries
Today, 17th September 2026, the FCDO has published final figures on its UK ODA budget spend for 2025: revealing that…
What’s happening at Party Conferences 2026
It is party conference season. A key chance to engage politicians on the breadth of work we do and build on valuable partnerships across the sector. Here is our overview of Bond events and events our members will be hosting during the conferences.
Bond welcomes Minister McNeill’s commitment to ambitious development agenda at International Development Committee session
On Tuesday 15th September, the UK Minister for Development and Africa, Kirsty McNeill MP, gave evidence to the cross-party International…