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DfID

April 9, 2020

British managers of UK aid-funded Kenyan firm accused of questionable business practices

Successive International Development Secretaries, including current Home Secretary Priti Patel, failed to intervene to address the alleged mismanagement.
June 21, 2019

National Audit Office report on the effectiveness of government spending on overseas aid

The National Audit Office says widening Official Development Assistance expenditure to other departments has increased risks to its effectiveness.
May 2, 2019

Christian Aid welcomes new ministerial appointments

Christian Aid has responded to the new ministerial appointments made following the sacking of Gavin Williamson on 1 May 2019.
April 21, 2019

UK aid budget fuelling profits of corporate education providers

The UK aid budget is being used to fuel the profits of corporate education providers around the world, says Global Justice Now.
March 14, 2019

Christian Aid reponds to MPs' report on forced displacement in Africa

More than 20 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa have been forced from their homes by violence and conflict and are living on the margins of their own societies or in neighbouring countries as refugees.
December 4, 2017

£1bn fund behind suspended British aid to Syria 'should be shut down'

The controversial Conflict, Stability and Security Fund should be shut down, according to Global Justice Now, which has released a new report on the fund.
November 9, 2017

Global Justice Now responds to Priti Patel's resignation

Global Justice Now calls for an urgent review of DFID’s support for security forces, to ensure it meets the mission of eradicating poverty, rather than being subsumed by military and other foreign policy objectives.
October 27, 2017

Call to make freedom of religion a foreign policy priority

Parliamentary Group calls for freedom of religion and belief to be made a political priority for the Foreign Secretary and a strategic priority for both the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Department for International Development.
February 1, 2017

Government urged to work for sustainable economic development

Commenting on the Department for International Development’s new strategy for economic development, Christian Aid has welcomed its focus on beyond-aid issues such as tax and transparency and its attention to the whole economy, and called on the rest of the government to work together to support genuinely sustainable development.
September 28, 2016

Tax a 'vital weapon against poverty' and UK should use it better

The UK’s aid watchdog has highlighted how the Department for International Development could more effectively help poor countries to tackle the tax avoidance and evasion that rob them of billions, in a new report welcomed by Christian Aid.