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Today, Thursday 9 April, the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) published its provisional statistics on how UK aid was spent in 2025. …
After 40 years working in international infrastructure development, Mark Harvey reveals that the real key to successful projects isn’t just about engineering. It’s about understanding people, systems, and disciplines, as well as learning by doing – all captured in a new toolkit.
Sunit Bagree at Results UK examines the devastating consequences of the UK’s complicity in trade-related illicit financial flows. Can the British government turn the tide?
The NHS relies on internationally trained staff, and will do so for the foreseeable future. Ben Simms at Global Health Partnerships argues that the UK government needs to match the benefits it gains with meaningful support for the health systems it recruits from.
Aleema Shivji and Matt Jackson from Impact Works make the case for a new kind of futures thinking.
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.
We hear from people with disabilities in Bangladesh, Nepal and Kenya who are showing what locally led change means in action. How is participatory storytelling powering locally led disability rights work?
With the FCDO announcing that funding for safeguarding will be reduced disproportionately, the risk of the quality and consistency of safeguarding plummeting increases. How can we keep the communities that we work with safe?
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.
