The United Kingdom has finally cut aid to the world’s second-largest economy and rising adversary China, but will still pay out nearly £1 million to the communist country for “human rights” work.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) announced a new education policy Thursday that recognizes the important role of non-governmental groups, including faith-based and private organizations, to provide education to children affected by crisis and conflict.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday instructed the Foreign Ministry to send aid to Sierra Leone, where hundreds of people were killed in a massive landslide in the capital.
Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah came under fire this week for remaining defiant in the wake of reports of possible reductions in international aid.
A requirement to spend 0.7 per cent of Gross Domestic Income (GDI) on foreign aid means the United Kingdom is now dumping billions of pounds as the Department for International Development (DfID) scrambles to meet the target.
The international development secretary has received a “major rap over the knuckles” for trying to cut British funding to UN bodies, despite repeated calls for them to stop wasting taxpayer cash.
British taxpayers’ foreign aid money is being wasted on “superficial” projects by some of the world’s largest aid agencies, International Development Secretary Priti Patel has warned.
In a last-minute rush to hit Prime Minister David Cameron’s foreign aid target, the Department for International Development (DfID) threw over half a billion pounds of taxpayers’ money at a controversial Swiss-based fund. Critics say the gift to the celebrity-backed Global Fund to
UKIP’s defence spokesman and Commando Engineers veteran Mike Hookem has blasted a suggestion by Conservative defence minister Michael Fallon that the entire foreign aid and defence budgets be merged, calling it “ludicrous”. Answering questions on defence, minister Fallon said the
An independent body which scrutinises the UK’s international aid payments has concluded that they are ‘a waste of money’. The report by the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) criticised the Department for International Development’s “weak management” and “poor supervision”
A report by the National Audit Office has shown that millions of pounds from the government’s international aid budget was spent on last-minute projects in order to spend the multi-million pound budget. In 2013 the UK provided £11.5 billion in