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…
Mass call from campaigners to protect rights, ahead of Lords debate on Police Bill
…through the House of Commons and Committee stages, despite high-profile critics including former police chiefs and the former Prime Minister and Home Secretary Theresa May who called on Priti Patel…
Comprehensive Spending Review 2021: What does it mean for UK aid?
…In the meantime, the commitment to spend 0.5% on ODA in 2022 remains in place. The spending review also reconfirmed the government’s commitment to double international climate finance from 2021,…
OECD releases preliminary overseas aid figures for 2019
…figures These figures show that total ODA from OECD DAC members was $152.8bn in 2019, a real terms increase of 1.4%, but that ODA as a percentage of donors’ combined…
Collaborative UK aid transparency commitment renewed
…Publish What You Fund, Save the Children and Development Initiatives have succeeded in updating an aid transparency commitment in collaboration with the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) which…
Faith and climate change: engaging religious communities in climate discourse
As we approach COP28, commentators and observers may be surprised by two high-profile collaborations from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). A faith leaders’ pre-conference summit co-sponsored by the Muslim…
Influential global ranking of civic space downgrades UK to ‘obstructed’
…the UK Government on civil society space and related topics such as media freedom, human rights defenders, governance, and democracy. Members share and discuss the latest research and learning on…
GeoPoll
Youth, locally led development and participation in the SWANA region
…there’s hope. Young people, demonstrating resilience, are leading positive change in their communities. Throughout the SWANA region, 55%—more than half of the population—is comprised of people under 30, compared with…
Bond response to Dominic Raab’s statement setting out plans to amend the International Development Act and new aid priorities
…the same government that passed the International Development Act and the 0.7 commitment, with cross-party support, now break their promise to the world’s poorest people and abandon their manifesto commitment…