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?
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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 aid for public opinion. Correcting this misconception could be a gamechanger, argues Professor Martin Scott.
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…
What will it take to make localisation a reality? Part two
Alexandra Newlands of the Scaling Up Nutrition Civil Society Network follows up on her previous blog about stalled localisation, asking whether decision-making and funding are actually moving closer to where impact happens.
Re-imagining the future of the INGO
Mary Ann Clements, co-lead of ADD, reflects on the changes the organisation has made so that funding can flow more freely and directly to disability justice movements in other countries.
What does handing over a programme to government require?
Luke Stannard shares three lessons from Can’t Wait to Learn, a digital learning platform which has been successfully transitioned from an NGO to a government-run initiative.