Writing on Conservative Home on 12 June CFID members and Project Umubano alumni Stephen Crabb MP and Sir Desmond Swayne MP call for those in the Conservative Leadership contest to uphold our commitment to international development.
The Telegraph reported on Baroness Liz Sugg speech defending UKaid use to fight the global rollback of women’s rights.
International Development Minister Baroness Sugg delivered a speech about UK aid’s commitment to women and girls’ rights at the Women Deliver Conference in Vancouver on 3 July 2019.
Writing to The Times on 11 June, former DFID Secretary of State defended the 0.7% target. He argues that Ministers must be careful that highly questionable spending does not undermine the UK’s international leadership as a development superpower.
Last summer CFID ran the inaugural Project Urafiki, in Tanzania. The successor to Project Umubano the Conservative international social action project. Twentyone volunteers, including three MP’s, Cllr’s, Candidates and grass root activists took part in three projects in five locations focusing on Education, Business and Health.
In an Oral statement to the House of Parliament yesterday, International Development Secretary Rory Stewart MP updated parliamentians on the Ebola Crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and argues that we need to do much more to grip the situation.
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