Aid and debt justice
In recent years, UK aid has increasingly been used to privatise public services, fund fossil fuel projects and boost the UK’s economic power overseas in the name of the so-called “national interest”. More money is going to unaccountable private sector contractors and funds, and less is going to the marginalised communities that need it most.
Our research has uncovered a wide range of dubious aid-funded projects including unaffordable private hospitals, colonial palm oil plantations and poor quality for-profit schools. At the same time, governments have repeatedly tried to reduce public and parliamentary scrutiny of UK aid.
This is what we call the “corporate hijack of aid” – the use of the publicly-funded aid budget to boost private sector profits. Instead, we believe aid should prioritise people and planet by helping to tackle climate change, close global inequalities, and support democratic accountability.
A new approach to international development
Aid thought of in a different way can contribute to important struggles for social justice and alleviate the burden of the poverty. Used properly, aid can act as a form of internationalist solidarity and global redistribution.
That is why we campaign for a new approach to aid and international development.
Zambia is in debt crisis. This is what needs to happen
Support our aid campaign with a donation
Your donation will help further our campaign for an alternative approach to aid spending steeped in principles of solidarity and social equality.
£5 could raise public awareness about UK aid investments in private healthcare and schools
£10 could inform MPs about the corporate hijack of aid
£15 could fund research exposing the government’s redirection of aid to support private profit
Other ways to donate
Call us for free on 0800 328 2153 Monday-Thursday 9.30am-1pm or send a cheque payable to ‘Global Justice Now’ to ‘Global Justice Now, 66 Offley Road, London, SW9 0LS’. If you have any questions please email [email protected].
