Sentences with phrase «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.

Gap years can give young people the chance to earn money, develop skills, learn about other cultures and places, work in overseas aid or volunteer.

Using AI to help you do so could be just what's needed to boost donations to overseas aid charities.

Government officials also pointed out that figures for overseas aid had always included debt relief, noting that this relief allowed developing countries to divert money into tackling poverty.

But often overseas aid is necessary to help create the necessary conditions for economies to begin to grow.

The implication is, of course, that climate change charities need more money, and that it's not right and proper that overseas aid charities should have twice the income.

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.

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

Priti Patel to defy Cam's # 12bn overseas aid pledge as she slams «spending spree» on waste and corruption

Theresa May has ruled out cuts to the UK overseas aid budget after warnings from Bill Gates — and from within her own party.

Both the Irish and the EU overseas aid programmes are at an interesting crossroads.

Midnight ToryDiary: David Cameron celebrates hitting 0.7 % overseas aid target in his Easter message

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).

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.

Yet the real shame was not the question about photographs in the manifesto, but Ukip's overseas aid policy itself.

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.

«I think particularly developing countries, we hear a lot about overseas aid, but actually the best way to help those countries is to have meaningful trading relationships with them.

As part of its mandate to regulate herbal medicines, the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA), organized a two - day training workshop for over eighty (80) Herbal Medicines practitioners under the sponsorship of the Department for International Development (DFID) a United Kingdom Government Department responsible for administering overseas aid.

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.

Millions of pounds in overseas aid projects is being wasted through a combination of corruption and mismanagement, according to a new report.

Humanitarian group AidWatch accused the UK of artificially inflating its aid figures by incorporating debt cancellation funds totalling 454 million euros (# 408m) into its overall overseas aid figure.

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.

She is a grafter who comes over well on TV and could do the Shadow Overseas Aid job superbly.

«[Overseas aid] is about doing morally the right thing, sticking with our responsibilities, not walking away from our global responsibilities, holding our head up high as a nation in the global community, as a nation that sticks with investing in prosperity and want to see the spread of prosperity to the farthest reaches of the earth,» he said.

the Tories have ring fenced Overseas Aid budget - they are not a threat to International Development policy are they?

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.

A public opinion poll commissioned by Dóchas in May of this year showed that 85 % of Irish people rated overseas aid as «important» or «very important».

In addition, it has proposed that the EU's new budget should see a 9 % increase in funding for «external relations», which includes overseas aid.

In order to travel to Europe Lucy and Ethel decided to sell tickets and raffle a television for a fictitious charity, the «Ladies Overseas Aid.»

She also found that the top 50 environment charities had income of # 977m in 2007 — less than half the # 2.1 billion achieved by the 50 top overseas aid charities, such as Oxfam.

Not too long ago, activists urged the UK government to redirect overseas aid money to help fight plastic pollution.

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

«Conservatives 24 % ahead in thirty most marginal seats Main David Cameron defends NHS and overseas aid pledges»

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

Increase the NHS and overseas aid budgets more rapidly than those used to pay for - say - schools, policing and defence?

«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 letter from Dr Fox to David Cameron, seen by members of the Cabinet on the national security council, in which he questioned Britain's overseas aid spending raised eyebrows in Whitehall.

Overseas aid charities have been busy reinventing themselves as climate change charities.

The budget increase, which has been praised by many non-governmental organizations working in overseas aid, squares with another seemingly competing Canadian opinion, however.

Most Canadians (64 %) say that countries like Canada have a moral responsibility to assist less wealthy nations in development, but one - in - five (21 %) say they personally donate money to overseas aid or charity projects.

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.

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.

As one of only three departments ring - fenced from coalition spending cuts, overseas aid is under increased scrutiny from other arms of government.

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