Author: charliesamuda
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Watch out for any budgetary backtracking on aid commitments
Supporters of international development should watch this week’s budget announcement very carefully. Overseas aid and the role of DFID are not usually at the forefront of a Chancellor’s mind when delivering a budget – personal taxation, welfare and big capital spending projects tend to get all the attention. But just because the budget is usually…
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Cameron may be breaking OECD aid rules to placate Tory backbenchers
As posted on Left Foot Forward. The Labour Campaign for International Development warned before the 2010 election that there was a risk the Conservatives would divert the aid budget away from poverty reduction and towards national security. Today’s news that hundreds of millions of pounds may be diverted to peacekeeping defence operations in bid toplacate backbenchers proves those warnings right. And it wasn’t…
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Labour’s Mark Hendrick Seeks Legal Commitment to 0.7%
Labour MP Mark Hendrick has used a private members bill to propose a binding legal commitment to ensure that 0.7% of UK GDP is spent on international aid. Writing to David Cameron this week he called for the Prime Minister to strongly support the measure, given concerns that the bill would fail to gain sufficient…
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The IF campaign launch
Yesterday saw the launch of the IF campaign to end global hunger. The campaign has been launched by a coalition of 100s of NGOs and faith groups and is the largest campaign of its kind since Make Poverty History in 2005. Alongside targeting global poverty directly, the IF campaign focuses on the need to target…
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Why I’m proud to be a member of LCID
LCID member @Charlie_Samuda gave a speech at the Labour party conference last week: As Harriet [Harman] and others have said today our record on international development and the creation of DFID [Department for International Development] is one of our greatest achievements in government. We should all be proud of being a member of a party…
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