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,...
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...
CFID discusses FCDO Women & Girls Strategy
CFID was pleased to welcome our members, supporters and those engaged in international development issues to a briefing and panel event on the Women & Girls Strategy launched on 8th March 2023. We also received two contributions from organisations based in Kenya and South Sudan on the strategy, which can...
Conservative Friends of International Development support sustainable living NGO Reseed in Sierra Leone
In late 2022, eight CFID members visited Sierra Leone as part of a social action trip inspired by Project Umubano, a Conservative Party initiative aimed at raising awareness of international development issues and the role of UK aid. During the self-funded trip, volunteers supported sustainable livelihoods NGO Reseed in delivering...