Blogs
Briefing: Making CDC work for people and planet
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 14 November 2019
Campaigns: Aid, Climate
This briefing highlights some of the major problems with the CDC and the projects it funds. We believe that these problems are not aberrations but are a product of the […]
Read moreAid watchdog right to sound alarm at UK’s ‘Global Britain’ aid agenda
Date: 23 October 2019
Campaigns: Aid
Our response to today’s ICAI report on UK aid and the government’s ‘mutual prosperity’ agenda,
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Reimagining aid: why DfID must prioritise UN development goals over British financial interests
By: Daniel Willis
Date: 17 September 2019
Campaigns: Aid
The recent announcement by incoming Secretary of State for International Development Alok Sharma, that he will protect the UK aid budget, might be consolation to some. However, the real threat to aid is not necessarily in a cut to funding, but in the government’s continuing efforts to redefine international development.
Read morePupils Before Profit postcard
Type: Leaflets
Date: 29 May 2019
Campaigns: Aid
Our Pupils Before Profit campaign with the National Education Union is calling for the UK to stop funding the privatisation of education around the world. Each year, the UK’s Department […]
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The great aid betrayal
By: Ed Lewis
Date: 17 May 2019
Campaigns: Aid
Last summer, Theresa May made headlines on a trip to Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, where she declared in the most bullish terms yet the government’s objectives for international aid. […]
Read moreNew DFID chief must reverse hijacking of aid budget by corporate interests
Date: 2 May 2019
Campaigns: Aid
Reaction to the appointment of Rory Stewart as International Development Secretary.
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Millions of pounds of UK aid has been spent on profit-making private schools. Why?
By: Ed Lewis
Date: 19 April 2019
Campaigns: Aid
What do you think we should be spending the UK’s international aid budget on? Vaccines? Dealing with climate change? Helping countries close tax loopholes? I’m guessing you didn’t say profit-making […]
Read moreIn Whose Interest? The UK’s role in privatising education around the world
Type: Reports
Date: 16 April 2019
Campaigns: Aid
This report, published by Global Justice Now and the National Education Union, examines the problems with privatisation of school education around the world and the role of the Department for […]
Read moreIn Whose Interest? The UK’s role in privatising education around the world
Date: 14 April 2019
Campaigns: Aid
A new report from Global Justice Now and the National Education Union lays out the UK Department for International Development’s policies and programmes that are contributing to a privatisation agenda.
Read moreAid watchdog brands DFID private arm ‘unsatisfactory’ – reaction
Date: 26 March 2019
Campaigns: Aid
Global Justice Now today said the UK government’s international development strategy was “hell bent on pushing aid money into financial markets regardless of the consequences”, following the release of a damning report by independent aid watchdog ICAI – the Independent Commission for Aid Impact.
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