Following the publication of their latest study, Huib Huyse and Lara Helsen of HIVA-KU Leuven look at what other European countries have in common with the tumultuous development cooperation trajectory of the UK over the previous five years.
the most recent OECD-DAC review of the UK’s performance illustrates the problems with donors essentially marking their own homework, which reinforces calls for radically reforming this body and creating a more accountable aid system.
Following the release of the provisional UK aid statistics, we look at what the numbers reveal, including a sustained heavy spend from the Home Office, and how that has effected work on poverty reduction.
The brutal conflict in Sudan is approaching it’s one-year anniversary. Mercy Corps’ Rebecca Gibbons tells us why it’s time for the UK government to scale up funding in Sudan and help tackle the ongoing famine.
While we are waiting to see the official development assistance numbers for 2023 and how the government plans to deliver the White Paper on International Development, what are the other issues we will look out for as 2024 progresses?
Humanitarians are being constrained by geopolitical agendas of donor states and the growing assertion of national sovereignty. What, then, can humanitarians hope to achieve? Watch this webinar with expert speakers from University of Bath, Dr Mathilde Maîtrot, Dr Touseef Mir and Dr Naomi Pendle who discuss the good, the bad and the ugly of humanitarian principles and practice.
Two years on from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the humanitarian effort is still being lead by international organisations as opposed to locals. It is time to divert our funding and our attention.
As the conflict in Gaza creates an increasingly desperate humanitarian crisis, we look at the multiple factors that are making the distribution of assistance almost impossible.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Development Assistance Committee recently published its final aid data for 2022, and it’s not good news for the world’s least-developed and low-income countries. Euan Ritchie of Development Initiatives takes us through the numbers.