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People deserve the chance to decide how UK aid is spent in a changing world
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.
Stories that help change systems
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?
Have the 2026 ODA allocations highlighted a decline in keeping communities safe?
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?
ODA allocations for 2026 onwards show the grim reality of aid cuts
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.
Artificial authenticity: are NGOs risking their reputation when using AI-generated imagery?
Imagine spending months crafting a campaign about poverty or climate destruction, only to find your audience is arguing about pixels instead of people. That is exactly what is happening to some of the world’s best-known organisations in the charity and development sector.
Joint statement from Peacebuilding and International Development Organisations on UK Aid Reforms
The Bond Conflict Policy Group, a coalition of peacebuilding and international development organisations, welcomes the renewed commitment by the UK’s…
UK aid to Africa cut by more than half – Bond reaction
Today, Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper MP has announced her department’s allocations of the Official Development Assistance (ODA) budget for the next three…
Bond reacts to FCDO release ahead of UK ODA allocations announcement
Today, Thursday 19th March 2026, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) have issued a press release ahead of its allocations…