(De)risky business? International development and the banking sector
…transactions, money is often moving from the Global North into vastly more complex Global South recipient markets. INGOs are faced with the challenge of needing to deliver for the communities…
The Foreign Influence Registration Scheme is coming โ hereโs what you need to know
…to influence national decisions. It also includes public-facing communications intended to influence national decisions, like using social media or print media. But if your public-facing communications clearly state that they…
Open Technology Fund – Rapid Response Fund
Seeing clearly: solving Asia’s air pollution crisis
…change [PDF] (and the potential co-benefits from their mitigation). A recent study finds that the costs of reducing greenhouse gas emissions could be fully compensated with the health co-benefits alone…
Stopping the raid on aid is critical to rebuilding the UKโs reputation as an international development superpower
…Development Assistance Committee (OECD-DAC) have set a ceiling for in-donor refugee costs. For example, the Swedish Government’s 2023-24 budget states that IDRCs should be limited to no more than 8%…
Nearly 30% of the UK aid budget was spent on refugee costs in the UK in 2022
…a fall of 13% compared to 2021 and of 47.8% compared to 2020. The FCDO received just 59.7% of ODA allocations, the lowest share of the primary ODA spending department…
3 steps to delivering engaging communications
…In the international development sector we have access to lots of insights through the combined experience of the sector’s staff and in individual organisations’ audience research. But sometimes it can…
The long shadow: Re-examining Afghanistan two years after US withdrawal
…help through cracks rather than open channels. For Afghans desperate for relief, time lost to political complexities can cost lives. An ongoing moral duty: The UK’s continued obligations to the…
Empowering small NGOs to improve their safeguarding processes through skills mapping exercises
…this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLSHFKoDqXw&ab_channel=Bond How to convert what NGOs are already doing on safeguarding into written compliance It’s easy in a conventional and mistrustful way to assume that the fault lies with…
Institute of Development Studies