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Decarbonising aid: why the UK must end its overseas fossil fuel financing before COP26

Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 12 June 2020
Campaigns: Aid, Climate

Under the terms of the Paris Agreement, signed April 2016, the UK government committed to making global financial flows “consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate-resilient […]

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Exiting the permanent crisis in the global south

Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 23 April 2020
Campaigns: Aid, Trade

The case for a global financial reset in the wake of Covid-19 

Even in the wealthiest countries on earth, years of austerity combined with ‘market knows best’ ideology has hollowed out our ability to deal with coronavirus. But for many countries in the global south, the weakness of the public sector was not a democratic choice but was imposed by rich countries and international institutions like the IMF…

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British managers of UK aid-funded Kenyan firm accused of fraud, bribery and “highly questionable business practices”

Date: 7 April 2020
Campaigns: Aid

A documentary by the BBC’s award-winning Africa Eye team, aired yesterday, has reported on concerns of alleged fraud, bribery and other highly questionable business practices by two British managers appointed by a UK aid-backed private equity fund to run its investee Kenyan firm Spencon.

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UK development bank ‘doing more harm than good’ after failed reforms – report

Date: 16 February 2020
Campaigns: Aid

CDC Group using international aid money to invest in private health and schools, fossil fuel projects and companies accused of human rights abuses, many based in tax havens.

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Doing more harm than good? Our latest report on the UK’s development bank, CDC

By: Daniel Willis
Date: 15 February 2020
Campaigns: Aid

Amid the recent back and forth over whether the Department for International Development will be merged into the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, very little attention has been paid to the […]

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Doing more harm than good: Why CDC must reform for people and planet

Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 15 February 2020
Campaigns: Aid

This report details the failures of the government’s development bank, CDC, to invest in a just and responsible way. Despite a series of reforms and promises to change, CDC continues […]

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Boris Johnson’s Africa summit condemned for ‘corporate hijack’ of aid budget

Date: 17 January 2020
Campaigns: Aid

Open letter criticises use of UK aid money to promote business opportunities for British corporations and the City of London.

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Resisting Empire 2.0: why we’re protesting the UK-Africa Investment Summit

By: Daniel Willis
Date: 16 January 2020
Campaigns: Aid

For many, the idea of encouraging more foreign investment in African countries make sense. This is certainly the government’s hope as they approach the first UK-Africa Investment Summit, to be […]

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An open letter to the government on the UK-Africa Investment Summit

Date: 15 January 2020
Campaigns: Aid

As representatives of civil society and the international development sector in the UK, we would like to raise our concerns about the upcoming UK Africa Investment Summit on 20 January […]

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Campaigners condemn Tory plans to dissolve UK aid department

Date: 10 December 2019
Campaigns: Aid

Responding to today’s story in the Financial Times (1), which states that Boris Johnson is “planning to fold the UK’s Department for International Development into the Foreign Office if he wins […]

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