A guide to the Annual General Meeting
…the organisation’s finances, current progress on the strategy and plans for the future are presented to members for discussion and examination. It is also the occasion on which new board…
What does Boris Johnson mean for international development?
…be used to support the diplomatic and commercial objectives of the UK. While ODA is protected by international rules set by the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC), a move like…
Caritas partnership guiding principles
Description of principles and ways of working with partners from a Catholic perspective. Resource type: policy document. Resource application: an example of partnership principles and ways of working that can…
Political attempts to stifle campaigning are backfiring – but charities still need to respond
…criticism of charities for doing their jobs, frivolous complaints to the Charity Commission, legislation designed to limit protest, judicial review and democratic participation. Looking at the bigger picture, judges, journalists…
UK government criticised for slashing ยฃ1.5billion from the World Bankโs programme to help lower-income recover from Covid-19
…donor to the initiative, which provides zero-interest or low-interest loans to boost economic growth and reduce inequalities in developing countries. Details of the latest funding commitment, to be published today,…
How the first Humanitarian Impact Bond will transform financing of aid
…the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), I do not recall such a challenging humanitarian landscape. Conflicts are no longer temporary interruptions in people’s lives; they are socio-economic catastrophes…
Global Innovation Fund
Alok Sharma named secretary of state for international development
…the latest updates on funding, jobs, resources, news and learning opportunities in the international development sector. Get Network News Bond CEO Stephanie Draper had this to say in response to…
Improving DFID’s nutrition impact for 50 million people by 2020
…tripling of its nutrition investments. And in 2015, the UK Government made a commitment “to improve nutrition for 50 million people who would otherwise go hungry by 2020”. This commitment…
Using virtual reality to tell real stories
…for immersive storytelling. To experience VR, viewers wear specialised headsets, comprising of a stereoscopic head-mounted display providing separate images for each eye, stereo sound, and head motion tracking sensors. This…