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With UK aid falling to its lowest share of national income since 1999, the organisations that come through will not be the ones chasing the most funding. They will be the ones that decided what not to chase. Jonathan M Clarke at MzN International shares more.
Sierra Leonean youth advocate, Sovula Bockarie, on why the global community must stop treating inclusion as an afterthought and start treating it as architecture.
Four young advocates reflect on the idea of radical accountability and a 10-point plan that could usher in an era of genuine youth-adult partnership.
As Britain’s newest prime minister gets underway, CBM UK CEO and Chair of Bond, Kirsty Smith OBE, reflects on how Andy Burnham and his new cabinet should connect his desire for renewal at home with responsibility abroad.
In today’s world, what’s a greater gamble? Funding frontline movements which might work in less familiar ways? Or continuing to back historically safe approaches whose effectiveness may be waning? David Mattingly and Tom Barns at Fund for Global Human Rights tell us more.
Today, Tuesday 28th July, over 100 UK INGO leaders, including from Oxfam GB, Debt Justice, WaterAid, ActionAid UK, Bond, Climate Action Network UK and more have issued…
What are the six impact pathways? Faith Pienaar from International Budget Partnership explores what applying them revealed about how government responsiveness works in practice and what the evaluation found about what actually drives sustained impact.
Comic Relief, along with the Development Engagement Lab, asked the British public who should lead international development, and the answers suggest that genuine localisation is not only possible, but wanted.
In reaction to the UK government’s decision to switch international climate finance grants to loans, to fund a bus fare…
