Phenomenal progress has been made to halt and begin to reverse its spread. Sustaining our efforts now is vital.
Unless we sort out the problems right now, then I fear it is a battle I will lose.
Even if she wanted to, she couldn’t reduce her department’s budget without a change in the law.
Crucially, by getting people to think about projects in more detail, they would be making some form of investment in our approach to development.
She’s only been in power for a few months but there have already been ten notable policy changes.
A new report, and an event tomorrow, highlight the plight of people throughout the world persecuted for practising their faith – especially by extremist Islamist groups.
And on Brexit, as one who campaigned for In, I say we should get on with it, and avoid the one outcome that is infinitely less preferable to Leave or Remain: limbo.
It was not an exercise in evidence-based policy-making but the most egregious example of policy-based evidence making.
The instinct of our readers is that the justification of development spending is not that it will have benefits for Britain, but that it is good in itself.
Power is at the root of the problem.
“I see here a huge chain of actions and support by the UK to try to remedy the Syrian crisis.”
We still see cases where there is a fundamental disconnect between British foreign policy and British aid. Today, the most perverse example of this lies in Yemen.
Aid reform based on ‘efficiency’ is a smokescreen. So a different narrative and approach is needed.
Value for money invites a brutal battle with the industry and may rub voters up the wrong way. What about fairness for recipients?
If ever a small community deserve a change of fortune, it is the residents of the island, and I will continue to play a small part in making life uncomfortable for those who let them down.