Women Deliver 2023: Spaces, Solidarity and Solutions
In the heart of Africa, Rwanda is a country of hills, mountains, forests, lakes – and a few weeks ago, it was the host of this year’s Women Deliver Conference. Taking place in person for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, and for the first time ever on the African continent, I was delighted […]
Andrew Mitchell rebrands UK aid spending – now can he bring the public with him?
There’s never a dull moment when it comes to our charismatic International Development Minister, Rt Hon Mr Andrew Mitchell MP, who laid out a bold new vision for the future of British overseas aid in a powerful speech at Chatham House yesterday. One of his key messages was the renaming of UKAid to UK International […]
Funding global health into the future
With a new UK Prime Minister whose views on international development are little known, plus an impending fiscal event in which every budget is at risk of being cut, a conference on funding international development and global health this week was well-timed. The Devex ‘Future of Development Finance’ conference saw private sector, philanthropic and civil […]