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Resource Magazine
April 30, 2018
... to receive partnership support from the Department for International Development (DFID) to help them improve their waste management systems. The DFID has also committed to matching public donations to chosen charities tackling the plastic waste crisis during the latest round of UK Aid Match funding.
Express.co.uk
April 28, 2018
Many British fishermen blame the CFP for damaging the UK's fishing industry. Furthermore, as it was reported the Department for International Development has spent a whopping Ãâã14.3million to help fund the fishing industry in Nigeria. Malawi received Ãâã360,000 for fish farming schemes while Ãâã611,000Ãâà...
Devex
April 28, 2018
Secretary of State for International Development Penny Mordaunt said in a statement released Thursday that the charity has “decided to withdraw from bidding for new U.K. government funding until the Department for International Development is satisfied that they can meet the high standards we expect ofÃâà...
The Guardian
April 28, 2018
“I also want to make sure we have a strong relationship with the department for international development.” The EU has carved out economic partnership agreements with a number of African, Caribbean and Pacific countries, and Price said it was important for the UK to “pick those up” and offer countriesÃâà...
www.businessgreen.com
April 28, 2018
Department for International Development pledges to provide up to Ãâã250m over four years to help tackle marine plastic and illegal wildlife trade ... The funding was confirmed at the Global Environment Facility in Stockholm, where the government said UK lobbying had led to an increased focus from theÃâà...
Devex
April 27, 2018
Her speech was followed by meetings with the U.K. government to progress the issue, including with Mark Field, the minister of state for Asia and the Pacific, and Michael Bates, minister of state at the Department for International Development. Bishop told reporters that China's development influence in theÃâà...
Diginomica
April 13, 2018
The Department for International Development (DFID), the UK's government aid agency, has launched a new digital strategy, which covers its technology, service and data ambitions up until 2020. The document puts a strong focus on common platforms, working with technology leaders across governmentÃâà...
Devex
April 12, 2018
LONDON — The United Kingdom's development secretary has announced plans to partner with the City of London to help countries transition out of poverty as part of the government's global aid strategy. The plans, under which the Department for International Development will work with major financialÃâà...
Devex
April 6, 2018
LONDON — The United Kingdom's Office for National Statistics revealed Thursday a 9.2 percent increase in aid spent outside the Department for International Development in 2017, despite growing concerns about its cross-government strategy. The provisional U.K. aid statistics show that 72.5 percent ofÃâà...
Daily Maverick
April 3, 2018
More aid won't dramatically reduce poverty. What else should donors and African governments do? By Jakkie Cilliers for ISS TODAY. First published by ISS Today. There has been a steady decline in the extent to which countries in sub-Saharan Africa are dependent on aid, although aid remains veryÃâà...
NTA News
April 3, 2018
H.E Gov. Ibrahim Gaidam has said that the ongoing partnership with the UK Department for International Development (DFID) has “impacted positively” on the governance system in Yobe State and has led to the adoption of a Result-Based Management (RBM) system which now guides the state'sÃâà...
ReliefWeb
April 3, 2018
... Britain, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Monaco, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the USA, as well as DG ECHO, the UK Department for International Development (DFID), AECID, the Medtronic and Zurich Foundations and other corporate and private donors.
Jet2.com
April 3, 2018
Thanks to the generosity of customers and colleagues, as well as the public and match funding of over Ãâã242,000 from the Department for International Development, it has been announced that the Head Held High Appeal raised over Ãâã500,000. The UK aid match funding will support education-basedÃâà...
The Independent
April 3, 2018
The Ãâã170m brings the total that the UK has provided in aid to Yemen, since the conflict began in 2015, to more than Ãâã400m, the Department for International Development (Dfid) said. The civil war broke out after the government of Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi was ousted from the capital, Sana'a, by HouthiÃâà...
The Guardian
April 2, 2018
Amar's work is run in exactly the way the Department for International Development (DfID) believes is best: locally built, managed and sustainable. But we have received only a derisory Ãâã15,000 – years ago – from the UK's aid budget. Which is, frankly, outrageous. Our Iraqi team believes the absence ofÃâà...
The News International (blog)
March 26, 2018
The provincial government has introduced multiple reforms in education sector with the support of UK Department For International Development through Adam Smith International (ADI) as executing agency. Under the reforms, the government has developed a sense of competition among all the districts forÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 26, 2018
Through several ongoing programmes, more than 445 km of rural roads and trails have been built or rehabilitated, opening up critical access for rural communities. These programmes have benefitted from generous funding from the UK's Department for International Development (DFID), Korea (KOICA),Ãâà...
Prospect
March 26, 2018
And coming in the wake of both the Oxfam sexual exploitation scandal and the on-going attempts by Boris Johnson and other hard-right Conservatives to undermine the Department for International Development and fold it back into the Foreign Office, it's good to see a political party thinking about theÃâà...
Chronicle
March 26, 2018
“We are pleased to be committing a further Ãâã3 million of UK support to Zimref. This will enable the World Bank to scale up technical advice to the Government of Zimbabwe as it takes forward its economic reform commitments to ensure economic recovery and a more prosperous future for all Zimbabweans,”Ãâà...
LabourList
March 26, 2018
That is why Labour's new approach to international development will set a second twin goal for the UK's aid spending, and for everything the department for international development does – not only to reduce poverty but also, for the first time, to fight inequality. The Tories believe in charity, not social justiceÃâà...
The Guardian
March 26, 2018
“Let's help people around the world be more powerful and make their societies fairer - and in the process make our planet more safe, more just and more sustainable.” In 2018, the Department for International Development (DfID) spent 13.88% of its budget on disaster relief, the largest amount for any singleÃâà...
The Guardian
March 24, 2018
This month a tender opened for mine action charities clearing Angola's minefields to bid for funding from Ãâã100m committed by the Department for International Development for landmine clearance globally. This welcome re-engagement comes 15 years after the UK stopped funding mine action in Angola inÃâà...
The News International (blog)
March 11, 2018
... by DFID (UK's Department for International Development) in helping the federal and provincial governments in their empowerment, diversified capacity-building, and improvement and enhancement of institutional functioning. These views were expressed by the global head of DFID and UK's PermanentÃâà...
Pakistan Today
March 10, 2018
ISLAMABAD: UK's Department for International Development Permanent Secretary Matthew Rycroft visited Pakistan to see first-hand how DFID programmes were changing lives. During his visit to DFID's largest overseas programme, Rycroft met with Adviser to the Prime Minister on Finance, Revenue andÃâà...
EURACTIV
March 10, 2018
The UK's Department for International Development maintains stockpiles of emergency non-food items in Dubai such as shelter kits, blankets and water purification ... The EU and UK's leadership in development policy is threatened by Brexit, which will leave a considerable funding gap after 2019, leadingÃâà...
Devex
March 10, 2018
UK aid official offers 'loud and strong' support for access to abortion worldwide ... LONDON — A top United Kingdom aid official has reassured advocates that the Department for International Development remains a “loud and strong voice for universal access to sexual and reproductive health” services,Ãâà...
The Guardian
March 10, 2018
“Over 22 million Yemeni lives depend on permanent, full access for aid, food and fuel in Yemen. Instead, she has won no concessions and simply handed on a plate to Saudi Arabia a new humanitarian partnership and an endorsement from DfID [the Department for International Development], the world'sÃâà...
eProp.co.za
March 8, 2018
DIT in Africa has been instrumental in establishing the Africa Infrastructure Board, which brings together UKEF, the Department for International Development (DfID) as well as UK infrastructure and mining companies that are already active in Africa. Its ambition is for UK government and industry to workÃâà...
LabourList
March 8, 2018
Let me be clear: I am very proud of the role that the department for international development (DFID) already plays in supporting women and girls worldwide. ... In the Democratic Republic of Congo last year, the UK government got help to 1,979 survivors of sexual violence within the first 72 hours. It is aÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 8, 2018
The partnership – announced during the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia's visit to the UK – is the first of its kind between the Department for International Development and the Saudi Fund for Development. It will see British development experts working closer with Saudi counterparts, including in the HornÃâà...
Middle East Eye
March 6, 2018
One of the many aspects that I value about being a joint minister in both the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Department for International Development is the opportunity to approach the UK's foreign policy challenges and diplomacy holistically. In few relationships do I see this more than withÃâà...
Somaliupdate Online
March 6, 2018
At an event in London, co-hosted by the UK's Department for International Development (DFID), the Federal Government of Somalia and the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance (OCHA), Ms Mordaunt praised the efforts of the international community in 2017 – but called for continuedÃâà...
Science Daily
March 6, 2018
The research is part of the international research project Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE) that is supported by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research, and the U.K. Department for International Development. "This is a major breakthrough,"Ãâà...
Dhaka Tribune
March 6, 2018
The United Kingdom has said it is “highly regrettable” that members of its parliamentary committee were refused Myanmar visas and were unable to visit the country as part of their inquiry into Department for International Development's Rohingya-related work. The International Development CommitteeÃâà...
Civil Society Media
March 6, 2018
... launched an inquiry into sexual exploitation and abuse in the aid sector, and is now calling for evidence. The committee's inquiry follows its initial evidence session last month, where representatives from Oxfam GB, Save the Children UK and the Department for International Development gave evidence.
BizNis Africa
March 6, 2018
DIT in Africa has been instrumental in establishing the Africa Infrastructure Board, which brings together UKEF, the Department for International Development (DfID) as well as UK infrastructure and mining companies that are already active in Africa. Its ambition is for UK government and industry to workÃâà...
Devex
March 6, 2018
The United Kingdom's aid boss, Penny Mordaunt, also revealed that the Department for International Development's review of 179 delivery partners has uncovered 80 previously unreported incidents of issues “broadly related to safeguarding” at 26 organizations. DFID has ordered those organizations toÃâà...
Reliefweb
March 6, 2018
Mothers tend to their children at a UNICEF health clinic in Somalia supported by UK aid. ... At an event co-hosted by the Department for International Development (DFID), the Federal Republic of Somalia and the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the International DevelopmentÃâà...
expressandstar.com
March 5, 2018
A top official at the Department for International Development urged staff with concerns to call the whistle blowing hotline. ... DfID said action was taken in each of the 14 cases, which involve staff in the UK and abroad, that was in line with its policies at the time and insisted it does not hold any informationÃâà...
Civil Society Media
February 28, 2018
The Department for International Development has given Bond a grant of Ãâã4m as part of a new partnership aimed at strengthening safeguarding and transparency practices at international aid charities. DfID said the announcement was part of its wider UK Aid Connect programme, a grantmaking initiativeÃâà...
The Guardian
December 31, 1999
The conflict, security and stability fund – which has a current budget of Ãâã1.2bn, and operates in about 70 countries – was set up under the auspices of several key government departments, including the Foreign Office and the Department for International Development, to work in countries with strong BritishÃâà...
shropshirestar.com
December 31, 1999
... to sexual harassment between staff and none include proven allegations of workers paying for sex, the Department for International Development said. ... DfID said action was taken in each of the 14 cases, which involve staff in the UK and abroad, that was in line with its policies at the time and insisted itÃâà...
Reliefweb
December 31, 1999
Department for International Development and the Charity Commission co-host summit on safeguarding to drive up sector standards. A number of actions were today agreed to drive up standards in the aid sector at a Safeguarding Summit co-hosted by the Department for International Development (DFID)Ãâà...
