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April 16, 2024 | UK, Family Planning, Global Health, WASH & Sanitation, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, Nutritious Food Systems, Climate | Share this update
On April 16, 2024, UK Deputy Foreign Minister Andrew Mitchell announced an additional GBP100 million (US$119 million) in humanitarian assistance to Ethiopia.
The funding is slated to be used to support Ethiopia’s access to primary healthcare services, support communities in becoming more climate resilient, and provide help for people displaced due to drought and extreme weather.
The pledge was made at the UK co-hosted Ethiopia pledging conference with OCHA. Ethiopia is facing one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises, with over 21 million requiring assistance, 15 million people facing food insecurity, and 4 million people internally displaced.
April 4, 2024 | UK, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, Family Planning, Climate | Share this update
On April 4, 2024, UK Minister for International Development and Africa Andrew Mitchell committed GBP27 million (US$32 million) to improve family planning care and MNCH in Tanzania and a further GBP6 million (US$7 million) to boost vulnerable communities access to green energy in the country.
The announcement was made in anticipation of Mitchell's four-day trip to East Africa. The commitment included:
During his trip, Mitchell also announced a Mutual Prosperity Partnership with Tanzania, which aims to unlock GBP1 billion (US$1. 2 billion) of UK government-backed investment in Tanzania between 2024 and 2030 and increase UK-Tanzania trade.
March 24, 2024 | UK, Education, Agriculture, Gender Equality, Agricultural R&D, Nutritious Food Systems, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, Family Planning, WASH & Sanitation, Climate, Global Health, Security policy | Share this update
On March 24, 2024, BOND published a new manifesto setting out the steps the next UK government should take to help deliver on the SDGs and work in solidarity with its partners.
The manifesto is based around seven key asks:
March 19, 2024 | UK, Gender Equality, Family Planning | Share this update
On March 19, 2024, UK Ambassador Archie Young called for the need to support women and girls’ sexual health rights in his speech to the UN’s 68th Commission on the Status of Women.
Young noted how fundamental these rights are to eradicating poverty and empowering women, and noted that women's and girl's rights are a personal priority of the UK Foreign Minister. Young stated that the UK is committed to widening the international coalition of support for SRHR, strengthening international commitments and actions in support of SRHR, and tackling disinformation about SRHR in the multilateral space.
January 27, 2024 | UK, US, Nutrition, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, Family Planning, WASH & Sanitation, Education | Share this update
On January 27, 2024, it was announced that the UK has joined the US and other nations in freezing its funding for the UNRWA for Palestinians in the Near East in light of allegations that 12 UNRWA staff took part in the October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas on Israel.
The UK government noted that while it remains committed to getting vital humanitarian aid to people in Gaza, it was temporarily pausing future funding while the allegations are reviewed. The UK was the third-largest donor to UNRWA in 2020, but its funding fell sharply in 2021 and 2022. No recorded funding was delivered in 2023.
Assistance workers and Palestinian advocates have stated that freezing funding could have dire impact on humanitarian relief to Gaza.
January 25, 2024 | UK, Family Planning, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, Global Health | Share this update
On January 25, 2024, the UK’s International Development Committee released its first report on the FCDO’s approach to SRHR, which outlined the severe impact of cuts to SRHR as a result of reductions in the overall UK ODA budget beginning in 2020.
The report noted that between 2019 and 2022, FCDO reduced its spending on SRHR by a third, halved its spending on family planning and cut spending on reproductive and MNCH by 37%.
The report highlighted the impact of these cuts on key programs, noting that the UK’s flagship WISH programs saw its partners reduced from 27 to 17 countries, and its program results for women and girls reduced by approximately 60%.
At the multilateral level, UNFPA saw its funding cut from GBP20 million (US$25 million) in 2020 to GBP8 million (US$10 million) in 2021. UNAIDs saw its funding cut by 80% in 2021. The Global Fund also received a 30% cut in the pledge committed to for its replenishment in 2022.
The committee recommended the UK government:
December 13, 2023 | UK, Gender Equality, Nutritious Food Systems, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, Family Planning, Climate, Global health R&D, Global Health | Share this update
On December 13, 2023, departing Chief Executive of Oxfam Great Britain Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah called on the UK Labour Party to ensure it puts global solidarity at the center of their international development policy.
Sriskandarajah noted the need to target ODA where it is needed and supporting strong public health systems. He advocated against UK ODA being used as a foreign and trade policy instrument and also advocated against the practice of counting in-donor refugee costs as ODA.
Sriskandarajah also called on the Labour Party to stop addressing development, climate, and migration as separate policy areas rather than interlocking issues. He recommended that Labour should work to dismantle vested interests blocking efforts to cut emissions, invest in helping refugees, and find innovative ways of raising funding to tackle big climate issues, including through fair-share pollution taxes and increased wealth taxes.
Sriskandarajah also called on the Labour Party to show leadership on debt relief for poor countries by enforcing private creditor responsibility through changes to UK law, supporting a new convention on tax to reduce tax avoidance, and responding constructively to growing calls for reparations by forging partnerships based on the pursuit of equitable development and racial justice.
November 1, 2023 | UK, Education, Agriculture, Gender Equality, Nutritious Food Systems, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, Family Planning, Agricultural R&D, WASH & Sanitation, Climate, Global health R&D, Global Health | Share this update
On November 1, 2023, the UK government announced that it will provide GBP38 million (US$46 million) to a new GBP80 million (US$96 million) global initiative to speed up the use of AI to support international development.
The announcement was made at the inaugural AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park, UK. The initiative, which is also being supported by Canada, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the US, and partners in Africa, aims to utilize AI to combat inequality and boost prosperity, primarily in Africa. It will focus on building the capacity of and supporting African AI expertise to address long-standing development challenges.
The UK’s funding will come from a new phase of the UK AI for Development Programme. The following goals were listed as priorities until 2028:
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