Sentences with phrase «of overseas aid»

An international expert panel calculated that $ 1 of overseas aid spent on family planning in a developing country can be «worth» $ 120 of other aid.

Australian charities working in the area of overseas aid, who get funding from AusAID, are required to be members of the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID), and must adhere to the ACFID Code of Conduct.

We had won three elections on the trot and the Tories felt the need to dance to our tunes — from the minimum wage to tripling of overseas aid to gay rights to boosting the National Health Service.

John complemented this traditional message with commitments to raise the profile of overseas aid among younger voters and also to build a stronger society as the best defence against crime.

The defence secretary, Phillip Hammond, made efforts before the last spending review to blend some of his budget with that of overseas aid, but was repulsed by the very tight international definitions of overseas aid set by agencies such as the OECD.

The churches have also tried to help mobilize public opinion in favor of overseas aid.

Not exact matches

The best - known philanthropists may herald from the U.S., but the leading European nations send far more aid overseas in proportion to the size of their economies.

The best - known philanthropists may herald from the U.S., but many European nations send far more aid overseas in proportion to the size of their economies.

But since the realities of need and resources are mainly in one direction, overseas mission tends to become interchurch aid to Third World churches.

• — Created a powerful foreign - aid lobby in this country made up of corporations, financial institutions, colleges, and others who benefit by funds appropriated for overseas relief.

Its sister UK and Irish aid charity Catholic Agency For Overseas Development (CAFOD), has revealed one of its employees accused of sexual misconduct when he worked for Oxfam in Haiti has been dismissed from his current role.

In the past 12 months, Christian Aid has also investigated two incidents of sexual misconduct, both of which occurred overseas.

A threatening letter was sent to the President of the National Assembly by diplomatic envoys of the United Nations (UN), the European Union (EU) and several nation - states, suggesting that overseas aid would be denied if abortion was not allowed.

are the largest private givers of overseas food aid, the problem is not a world shortage of food.

But only through better understanding lies any hope for a solution and for more effective use of the money and energy devoted to overseas food aid.

In the past 12 months, Christian Aid has investigated two incidents of sexual misconduct, both of which occurred overseas.

She will also set out a number of green proposals in a 25 - year plan for the environment including eliminating all avoidable plastic waste by 2042 and a commitment to spend part of the Government's multi-billion annual overseas aid budget on international measures to cut plastic use.

Currently, Australia invests 0.37 % of our national income in overseas aid, or just 37 cents of every $ 100.

We announced in the Strategic Defence and Security Review that we would increase our overseas aid and that we would use 30 % of that aid to support fragile and conflict - affected states like Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.

«We will honour our commitment to spend 0.7 % of GNI on overseas aid from 2013, and to enshrine this commitment in law.

Jacksonians take a populist view of US foreign policy; they support unilateral military action to pursue American enemies and defend American honour, but are suspicious about global meliorative measures like overseas aid and global governance structures.

Labour MP and former International Development Minister George Foulkes has accused the Conservative Leader of «hypocrisy» over his comments on overseas aid.

For instance, Nick Clegg has made a great deal of his proposal of free school meals, shouted his pro-European credentials and is now showing his vigorous support for a private member's bill that seeks to enshrine in law the United Nations overseas aid spending target.

The last Conservative manifesto contained a commitment not just to spend 0.7 per cent of national income on overseas aid, but also to «legislate in the first session of a new Parliament to lock in this level of spending for every year from 2013.»

The continuation of the Rwandan aid budget is a stain on Britain's reputation overseas, but it should also shame us at home.

Tory members do not support protection of the NHS and overseas aid budgets and they oppose 25 % cuts in the defence budget.

«So in three Ministries of our social sector — health, education and gender — out of a total budget of GH cents 9.2 billion, GH cents 1.2 billion is overseas aid or donor support.

First, changes made to the Conservatives under David Cameron's leadership had drawn the parties closer together: a new stress on the environment, a sympathy for civil liberties, the commitment to spend at least 0.7 % of GDP on overseas aid (this last shift took place under Michael Howard, but Mr Cameron projected it in a way that his predecessor had not).

«George Osborne will only guarantee that hospitals and overseas aid are protected from spending cuts Main Boris to unveil portrait of the Queen at City Hall»

The government recently announced a re-targeting of the UK overseas aid budget, which will see more money spent in conflict areas.

I was a trauma and emergency doctor in London with a number of years overseas doing humanitarian aid work and I'd only become a local Labour councillor in May of 2014.

«What happens [with a fixed target] is you get close to the end of the financial year and lots of money gets doled out by the overseas aid department because they have to reach the target.»

Last week's Budget comes hot on the heels of the news that the coalition government's pledge to spend 0.7 % of the UK's national income as overseas aid has finally made it into law (pending royal sign - off).

Fancy ideas like gay marriage and the overseas aid pledge were causing a hemorrhaging of support.

The target of spending 0.7 % of GNI on overseas aid will also remain in place.

The Daily Mail leads the pack, commonly referring to the UK's aid spending «madness» and running sensational stories of taxpayers» money being «squandered overseas».

David Cameron betrayed anxiety about the coincidence — and its impact on potential Ukip supporters opposed to overseas aid or sceptical of climate change — by refusing to say how much Britain is likely to offer and stressing the funding would come from existing government funds.

99.3 % of the UK Budget is not spent on Overseas Aid.

It now stands behind Luxemburg, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Ireland, Belgium and Finland, spending 0.41 per cent of national income on overseas aid.

Can protection of health, schools and overseas aid survive in a world where other government departments have taken hugely disproportionate pain?»

In the wake of the financial crisis Stephen Crabb MP asks if we should now abandon the UK's ambitious overseas aid target.

«Several ministers have started arguing that there should no longer be ringfencing for overseas aid, health and schools, although the Prime Minister has always insisted that these budgets will be protected until the end of the Parliament and into 2015 - 16.»

A former Cabinet Minister last night called on supporters of the foreign aid budget to restate the case for investing in overseas development.

«This Coalition Government will be the first British government in history, and the first major country in the world, to honour the United Nations» commitment on international aid... Overseas development will reach 0.7 per cent of national income in 2013.»

Overseas aid spending would increase to a 2013 target of 0.7 per cent of national income.

In the summer a National Audit Office (NAO) report showed money was being wasted because civil servants were struggling to hit the legal requirement of spending 0.7 per cent of the nation's income on overseas aid.

Stephen Crabb argued that charities and Conservatives must both do more to trumpet the arguments in favour of spending 0.7 % of GNI on overseas aid, amid rising domestic pressures and cuts in spending.

Andrew Mitchell, Secretary of State for International Development appeared on the Andrew Marr show on Sunday to, yet again, defend the UK's overseas aid efforts.

The chancellor warned in his emergency Budget last month that departments faced cuts of around 25 per cent over the next four years on average - apart from health and overseas aid, whose budgets were ring - fenced.

► In other climate change news, Leigh Dayton wrote on Tuesday that in April, «the University of Western Australia (UWA) in Perth announced plans to set up an Australian Consensus Centre (ACC), chaired by [global warming skeptic Bjørn] Lomborg, that would conduct policy research on overseas aid, Australian prosperity, agriculture, and regional issues.