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Cuts to the Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) budget mean the UK’s efforts to reduce global poverty are dramatically reduced. Hopes of reinstating the UK’s spending to its legal obligation seem further than ever as the government finds ways to tweak what is counted as ODA. What is ODA? The government currently has a statutory duty... Continue Reading →
In the two-decades since 1999, the number of people living in extreme poverty worldwide has fallen by more than 1 billion people. Yet, for the first time in twenty years, this progress has reversed, sharply. The Covid-19 pandemic had shaken the world, with the loss of millions of lives creating economic hardship, hurt and suffering... Continue Reading →
Championing the role of UK Aid By Layla Moccia & Tilda Glynn ‘Overrun hospitals, exhausted medics, shortage of testing capability. These are just some of the difficulties Western nations have faced with coronavirus. But, having a weak healthcare foundation to begin with, many developing nation are buckling under the pressure’. Sarah Champion MP, Chair of... Continue Reading →
By Richard Blunt - London Grassroots volunteer Ensuring effective Parliamentary scrutiny for UK Aid spending. Since the establishment of the Department for International Development (DFID) in May 1997, the International Development Select Committee (IDC) has been tasked with scrutinising and monitoring UK aid spending by DFID and other UK Government Departments. In doing so, the... Continue Reading →
Back in 2015, world leaders agreed to 17 goals known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These aimed to create a fairer, cleaner planet as well as eradicate extreme poverty everywhere by 2030. By the start of 2020 most of the goals were way off track. It would take an extraordinary push from citizens around... Continue Reading →
In recent years, we have made huge strides towards ending global poverty, halving the number of low income countries since 2000. We are also right on the verge of eradicating polio. We should all be proud of the work that has been done to help some of the most vulnerable people on earth by all... Continue Reading →
Just round the corner from Kings Cross lies the NVCO, or National Council For Voluntary Organisations, gently nestled by the canal and the host of this year's RESULTS UK National Conference. This year was my first time at the conference and I'm delighted that I went. We had a fantastic set of speakers and a really... Continue Reading →
The RESULTS UK volunteer group is full of professional, hardworking people, who are dedicated to using their free time to campaign to end global poverty. They also really love glitter glue. Luckily, the craftivism movement exists, to combine these two passions. Last week, we got together to try our hand at the arts of painting,... Continue Reading →
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