@channel4news.bsky.social thank you for the sad and enraging piece on the withdrawal of #UKAid from Sierra Leone’s maternity services. The cuts are immoral and deeply cruel.

Some of the world’s poorest countries to lose UK aid due to 56% budget cut UK’s bilateral aid to African countries, which funds areas such as schools and clinics, to be cut by almost £900m by 2028-29

The UK’s bilateral aid to African countries will be reduced by almost £900m by 2028-29 – a 56% cut – as part of more than £6bn in cuts which are funding an increase in defence spending. #UKAid #Africa
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Joint statement from Peacebuilding and International Development Organisations on UK Aid Reforms

We welcome the UK’s focus on prevention in fragile contexts, but ambition needs resources. These commitments must be backed by a fully resourced, strategic approach to peace.

#Peacebuilding #ConflictPrevention #GenderEquality #UKAid #WPS

Report: Commonwealth Partnerships for Antimicrobial Stewardship (CwPAMS) Impact Report 2026 - Global Health Partnerships

A vital aspect of the #UKGlobalHealthSummit was to examine impact of #UKAid #HealthPartnerships. Here in relation to #antimicrobialstewardship #AMR #CwPAMS - with thanks to Dame Sally Davies, @drbeccycoopermp.bsky.social Dr Charles Ayume for forewords www.globalhealthpartnerships.org/our-work/gra...

UK aid to Africa cut by more than half – Bond reaction | Bond Allocations of the UK aid budget published today by the Foreign Secretary reveal 56% cuts to bilateral UK aid to Africa from 2024/25, the year before the

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#UKaid #internationaldevelopment

Some of the world’s poorest countries to lose UK aid due to 56% budget cut UK’s bilateral aid to Africa, which funds areas such as schools and clinics, to be cut by almost £900m by 2028-29

Cuts of 56% in UK health funding directly threatens years of investment in global health partnerships, health systems & workforce strengthening. This week’ UK Global Health Summit showed us the best in frontline impact. Let’s not lose this.
#UKAid #GlobalHealth

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One year since UK aid cuts, 97 INGO leaders highlight devastating impact | Bond One year on from the UK aid cuts, the UK INGO sector has issued a joint statement, reflecting on the devastating consequences of the cuts and calling on

UK aid cuts "set to be the steepest across the G7, steeper even than the US" and will above all hit women, people with disabilities, children, and people affected by conflict

NGO statement via @bondngo.bsky.social

www.bond.org.uk/press-releas... #ukaid

Our CEO, @romilly_bond, reacts to news that the government is reconsidering the future of the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (@icai_uk).

Find the Devex article: www.devex.com/news/uk-aid-...

#UKaid #FCDO #aidcuts #globaldevelopment

📍South Sudan | Escalating violence drives displacement from Nagero County

Discover how the REACH team in Wau County is collecting data from displaced communities to inform humanitarian support.
Supported by #UKAid #FCDO

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The USA is back. 👇 So where does that leave the UK? @UKLabour followed Trump in cutting #UKAid. Will we now follow Trump and increase #ODA budgets? #GlobalHealth #qualityUHC #HealthPartnerships #globalNHS

UK aid to Sudan - an Independent Commission for Aid Impact review Find out more about ICAI's review assessing the UK’s support for Sudan and people affected by the crisis in neighbouring countries

New publication from HO Partner Glyn Taylor and ICAI on #UKaid to #Sudan. The review aims to generate broader lessons for fragile and conflict affected contexts, including on how humanitarian aid, development assistance and diplomacy can work together to achieve results. Read it now ⬇️

People at the Centre: Lessons from the LIGHT TB Research Programme - LSTM in Conversation In this episode of LSTM in Conversation, host Dr Kerry Millington, Senior Research & Policy Associate at LSTM and working as a Research Uptake Manager on the LIGHT research programme, speaks with ...

🎙️ Podcast!

Host @kerrymillington.bsky.social talks with Early Career Researchers Dr Jasper Nidoi and Dr Ebuka Ugwu about their work on LIGHT - tackling gender & social barriers to #TB care in Africa

With insights from Dr Mohammed Yassin from Global Fund.
Listen👉 shorturl.at/gjDD3
#EndTB #UKaid

UK aid to Sudan - an Independent Commission for Aid Impact review Find out more about ICAI's review assessing the UK’s support for Sudan and people affected by the crisis in neighbouring countries

7 recommendations from @icai-uk.bsky.social report on #UKaid in Sudan include: ensuring sustained high-level political attention, backing priority status in UK development policy w/ multi-year protected funding, & adopting more agile aid delivery models.

UK has delivered more Storm Shadow cruise missiles to Ukraine for strikes on Russia

🇬🇧📦📦📦🚀➡️🇺🇦💥🇷🇺 #UkraineWar #UKAid

🇬🇧🇯🇲 𝗨𝗞 𝗔𝗶𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗛𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗮

I’ve a significant Caribbean diaspora who’ve made Gorton & Denton their home and I know many are concerned for friends & family after the terrible damage and deaths caused by Hurricane Melissa. I’m proud that UK Aid is ready to be distributed to Jamaica.

#UKAid

The UK is slashing its contribution to the global fund that fights preventable diseases — the very ones killing millions in poorer nations. This isn’t “budget discipline”; it’s moral failure. #UKAid #GlobalHealth #PreventableDiseases #Britain #Accountability

🚀TRENDING:
British MP Diane Abbott asked the Foreign Secretary what support the UK will offer Jamaica following Hurricane Melissa. Yvette Cooper confirmed she had spoken with Jamaica’s Foreign Minister and stated the UK is ready to assist. #HurricaneMelissa #Jamaica #UKaid #JamaicaNeedsHelp

🚨 MPs launch inquiry into the future of #UKAid as budget set to fall 40% from £15.4bn → £9.2bn by 2027

Committee will examine how to maintain impact amid cuts, shifting from donor-led aid to partnerships & investment.

⏳Submit by 31 Oct
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This letter 👇shows strength of feeling among #NHS professionals. They know just how important UK investments in strengthening health systems globally r: building peaceful societies & helping to prevent the spread of diseases that impact our health #UKAid www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Incredibly intense week in Nairobi, advancing discussions on #antimicrobialstewardship together with @drbeccycoopermp.bsky.social & host of partners we have worked with over 7 years & 9 countries through #CwPAMS @globalhealthpart.bsky.social & @cwpharmacists.bsky.social programme. Power of #ukaid

🚨 MPs launch inquiry into the future of #UKAid as budget set to fall 40% from £15.4bn → £9.2bn by 2027

Committee will examine how to maintain impact amid cuts, shifting from donor-led aid to partnerships & investment.

⏳Submit by 31 Oct
👉https://buff.ly/UClQ30c

This week, the UK cancelled a tender for the renewal of a #UKAID programme designed to support the education of girls in South Sudan, Africa's poorest country. The irony that kids won't go to school in a conflict-affected country because we've decided to spend more money on weapons! #BooksNotBombs

New UK Foreign Sec #YvetteCooperMP in Kyiv:
-> £142m boost for Ukraine's energy fixes & vulnerable families - that's a total of £18.3bn given since the war started!
#UkraineRussiaWar #UkraineWar #Putin #Russia #UKaid

📢 Our response to Yvette Cooper taking up the role of Foreign Secretary — and what it means for #UKAid and #GlobalHealth.

Congrats @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social on appointment. Your workload @fcdo-answers.bsky.social is enormous but this is yr opportunity to re-set @teamlabouruk.bsky.social fiscal & intellectual discourse on #UKAid, to re-establish UK's moral credibility globally after 14 months. @labourcid.bsky.social

India and UK Rush Aid to Afghanistan’s Earthquake Victims

India swiftly delivered 1,000 tents and 15 tons of food to Afghanistan’s quake-hit regions, with more supplies en route, following a deadly 6.3-magnitude tremor that claimed over 800 lives. 

#AfghanistanEarthquake #IndiaAid #UKAid

UK may scrap pledge to spend 80% of foreign aid on gender equality projects Exclusive: Critics warn move could worsen impact of Donald Trump’s rollback of funding for diversity and aid projects abroad

Scrapping the 80% commitment will compound the impact of US and UK aid cuts and exacerbate what feels like “a global war on women”. #UKAid #GenderEquality
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How transparent is UK aid in 2025? What is UK aid being spent on, how much of it is being channelled through non-FCDO departments , how is the UK’s aid changing, and what impact is it having? In order to answer these questions we need ...

🔎 How transparent is UK aid?
We’re halfway through reviewing the availability, accessibility & quality of info from 8 major (non-FCDO) aid-spending depts + the Integrated Security Fund.
Findings out in October. Details: www.publishwhatyoufund.org/2025/02/how-...
#UKAid #AidTransparency

How UK aid cuts will impact women’s health The U.K. Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office's health spending for 2025-2026 will go down by almost 46% to £527 million. An equalities impact assessment reveals the cuts will include spending...

🇬🇧 UK to cut health aid by 46% in 2025–26 — dropping to £527M. An equalities review warns of major setbacks in women’s health, #WASH, nutrition & SRHR in 🇨🇩 🇪🇹 🇲🇿 🇿🇼.
📉 A 30% cut in family planning could mean 1.1M unintended pregnancies.
🔗 bit.ly/3Hgx5qg
#UKaid #WomensHealth #GlobalHealth #GenderEquality