CFID and Bond invite members and supporters to join us for a drinks reception at Conservative Party Conference 2025 on Sunday 5 October between 6.00-7.30pm in the Chester Suite in the Midland Hotel. Speakers TBC.
A message from David Mundell MP, CFID’s new Chair
Images from Sudan, Ukraine, and Gaza are stark reminders of the intense pressures currently placed on development budgets. Beyond these crises, however, the enduring challenges of ending hunger, improving global health, and expanding opportunity remain as pressing as ever. Yet here in the UK, as in other traditional donor nations,...
CFID reception at Conservative Party Conference 2024
Date: Sunday 29 September 2024 | Time: 20.30-22.00 | Venue: Andante, Hyatt Regency Birmingham Join CFID for our annual reception at Conservative Party Conference, held in partnership with Bond. Further details and registration link to follow soon.
Foreign Secretary speech at NCSC
Out-compete, out-cooperate, out-innovate: Foreign Secretary calls for a harder edge for a tougher world I have been Foreign Secretary for almost 6 months. And I have been determined to make every day count. I have visited 33 countries, 1 Overseas Territory, and criss-crossed 6 continents. I lead a Department working hard to...
CFID reception at Conservative Party Conference 2023
Date: Sunday 1 October 2023 | Time: 20.30-22.00 | Venue: Exchange 6-7, MCC (Secure Area, CPC 2023, Manchester) Join CFID for our annual reception at Conservative Party Conference, held in partnership with United Against Malnutrition and Hunger. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear from Andrew Mitchell MP, Minister of...
Call for evidence: international development white paper
The white paper will consider how the UK can best reinvigorate its approach to international development, working ‘beyond aid’ as well as through ODA, partnerships, and the multilateral system. The UK's approach will need to respond to a rapidly changing global context and the intertwined development, nature, and climate challenges....
Gareth Davies: The Government can build a new consensus on international development by focusing on investment
This article was originally published on Conservative Home on Tuesday 21 March 2023 here. Gareth Davies is the MP for Grantham and Stamford. In the last decade, one number has dominated almost all discussion of the UK’s international development policy: 0.7 per cent. This is the target set by the UN...
Multilateral reform: Foreign Secretary’s speech at Chatham House London Conference 2023
The Foreign Secretary James Cleverly gave a speech at Chatham House’s London Conference 2023, where he called for a reinvigorated multilateral system. Watch the speech here. It was 82 years ago, on 12 June 1941, that the representatives of 14 allied governments met in London – just 2 and half...
Future of international development: Minister Andrew Mitchell’s speech
Watch the speech in full here. "I’m conscious that I’m talking in the heat of a massive crisis in Sudan. Clearly our thoughts are with British nationals being evacuated and the brave servicemen and women risking their lives to secure safe passage back to the UK. And our thoughts are...
Regaining lost ground after Covid-19: the fight for global health
Tuesday 16 May | 17.30-19.00