Writing in The Times on 8 May 2019, Graham Stuart MP, International Trade Minister and MP for Holderness makes the case for Business investment and job creation in Africa. Long term sustainable growth enables economic development and progression from aid partners to trading partners for the future.
CFID are delighted to host a guest blog by Delphine Valette from the International Rescue Committee. She argues that the UK should continue to be a world leader for women and girls caught up in crisis, highlights the importance of commitment to the conference on Gender-Based Violence in Oslo next month, and showcases the work of Conservative Peer, Baroness Hodgson as Chair of the APPG on Women, Peace and Security.
Published as part of our joint collection of essays with Save the Children UK. And to support the #PlasticPledge for lent we are delighted to share Vicky Ford MP’s essay on plastic pollution. DFID is currently Aid Matching Tearfunds appeal to turn plastic and other waste into green products, to improve the environment health and livelihoods in Pakistan.
CFID is delighted to host this Guest Blog by Rocco Blume from War Child. He highlights that under the leadership of consecutive Conservative Secretaries of State, UK aid has focused on poverty, humanitarian response, womens development, FGM and forced marriages, in enshrined 0.7% in law.
Published as part of our joint collection of essays with Save the Children UK. CFID Founder, Baroness Anne Jenkin argues that UK development policy must continue to prioritise women and girls for their own sake, and for the difference that we can make to development by unleashing their potential.
As experts gather in the UK for the Education World Forum and the FCO publishes The Platform for Girls’ Education report highlighting the gap between ambition and reality, calling on leaders from all sectors of society to make this a national development priority and get behind cost-effective investments such as early childhood education. CFID Chair Jeremy Lefory MP writes about the importance of education and how it underpins growth and prosperity with a focus on international development.
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