Molly Anders
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How to talk about Covid-19: insights from the British public
New research from the Development Engagement Lab sheds light on the British public’s receptivity to development cooperation in the context of the global Covid-19 pandemic. → Read More
Saving a seat for Africa's rising businesswomen
With the backing of the U.K.'s development finance institution, Marcia Ashong and Tamsin Jones began teaching women in Africa how to get "boardroom-ready." Now, other DFIs want to get in on the act. → Read More
No-deal Brexit: UK government will underwrite ejected aid contracts
The U.K. government has committed to taking on current aid contracts after the European Union began to introduce disclaimers in February in all contracts stating that U.K.-based partners could suddenly lose funding in the event of a no-deal Brexit. → Read More
Why do aid organizations prohibit staff from using sex workers?
Nine of 10 major humanitarian organizations surveyed by Devex in the wake of recent sexual misconduct scandals said they prohibit their staff from engaging with sex workers in the field, yet over the past two years, only one organization has pursued disciplinary action. We explore how these policies are built and defined — and why. → Read More
'Predatory individuals' fleeing aid sector, says Mordaunt
New safeguarding measures are already having an effect, the U.K. secretary of state for international development claimed Tuesday. → Read More
Global Disability Summit yields 170 new commitments — but what's missing?
The first Global Disability Summit in London yielded a range of commitments, from financial pledges to action plans — but some worried that parts of the disability community were left out and that too little has been done to improve disability inclusion in humanitarian settings. → Read More
EU 'aid for trade' deals to be replicated with UK after Brexit
All 29 developing countries that currently hold Economic Partnership Agreements with the EU have agreed to replicate them with the U.K. after Brexit, according to a government source — but some members of the development community say they should be renegotiated. → Read More
Exclusive: What are DFID's new country diagnostic pilots?
Devex explores the new Country Development Diagnostics being piloted internally by the U.K. Department for International Development. → Read More
UK aid-funded research booming but groups seek more local capacity
At the launch of the rebranded UK Collaborative on Development Research in London this week, experts weighed in on how development research needs to be more joined up and driven by partner countries, as U.K. spending on aid-funded research could quadruple. → Read More
Oxfam CEO to step down following scandal
Mark Goldring, CEO of Oxfam GB and a longstanding member of the U.K. aid community, will step down from his role at the end of 2018, Oxfam announced Wednesday, after a major sexual misconduct scandal hit the charity earlier this year. → Read More
How DFID plans to use insurance to build resilience in small island states
Speaking on the sidelines of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London this week, development minister Lord Michael Bates offered a look into the Department for International Development's plans to leverage insurance tools to help small island states prepare for and respond to natural disasters. → Read More
Leaders challenge Commonwealth countries to halve malaria cases by 2023
The announcement comes during the Malaria Summit London 2018, where commitments will include a range of new interventions in funding, innovation, and data, with strong support from malaria-endemic countries and a special focus on refugees and internally displaced people. → Read More
UK aid figures spark renewed alarm over cross-government spending
The U.K. once again increased the amount of official development assistance spent outside the Department for International Development, but aid groups fear the money — now around a quarter of the aid budget — isn't reaching DFID standards on transparency and poverty reduction. → Read More
Aid watchdog calls for 'urgent steps' to fix CSSF
"Too many programs showed signs of basic design errors, with poor delivery and a lack of quality control," according to an Independent Commission for Aid Impact review of the 1.2 billion British pound ($1.7 billion) Conflict, Stability and Security Fund. → Read More
UK Labour Party pledges to end PPPs in inequality-focused aid strategy
The British opposition Labour Party has launched its strategy for overhauling aid, with a parallel focus on reducing inequality alongside the current push to end poverty — and a pledge to end support for overseas public-private partnerships within five years of being elected. → Read More
Q&A: Penny Mordaunt on the urgent need for disability-inclusive development
"We've made a good start on disability-inclusive programming, but collectively, we are starting from a low base." Three months into her role as United Kingdom Secretary of State for International Development, Penny Mordaunt speaks to Devex about why disability inclusion is top of her priority list, and why tackling it as an isolated issue isn't good enough. → Read More
Draft Brexit agreement plots future for UK aid — up to a point
On Wednesday, the European Commission released the first draft of the document that will guide the United Kingdom out of the European Union. It contains important clues about how the U.K. will spend aid going forward, particularly in the Brexit transition period ending in 2020. → Read More
The rocky road toward disease eradication
As the world health community faces potential funding cuts to efforts to tackle the world's deadliest diseases, Devex takes a look at lessons learned from three watershed disease eradication efforts. → Read More
Breaking: Oxfam to withdraw from DFID bidding 'until ministers satisfied' with reforms
The U.K. Department for International Development confirmed that Oxfam will withdraw from bidding on future contracts until ministers are satisfied with a "higher standard" of conduct from the organization, even as Oxfam chief Winnie Byanyama detailed further reforms in the wake of the Haiti scandal. → Read More
Aid to Yemen blocked by banks, suffocating local organizations, report finds
A study by the Overseas Development Institute of local and international humanitarian organizations working in Yemen found that groups are shutting down or are unable to respond to crises due to routine "de-risking" by international banks, and that a lack of financial access to the country has led to a "black market" trade in food and fuel. → Read More