As many readers of this blog will know, the UN Secretary General's High Level Panel (HLP) of Eminent Persons on what comes after the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) expire in 2015 is due to report at the end of May.

David Cameron has been accused of using international development as a "cynical weapon" to win over Tory backbenchers after a pledge to legally commit...

The eyes of the world may now be turned elsewhere, but Haiti remains one of the most vulnerable places on earth, battered repeatedly by earthquakes, cyclones, floods, landslides, drought, and epidemics. Hurricanes routinely knock up to 15% from GDP. The total volume of humanitarian aid to Haiti since 2001 exceeds $4billion. The challenge ahead is stark.

A huge increase in British aid to Pakistan should be cancelled until the country's elite start to pay taxes, MPs have said. The International Devel...

The recent furore over the British international aid budget exposes a failure by the government and aid giving agencies to communicate the good work that they undertake in the developing world.

Football's Premier League and top British firms have called on David Cameron to keep his commitment to devote 0.7% of national income on international...

A colleague of mine working on the post-Millennium Development Goal (MDG) framework said only last week "we get the chance for deep thought in the development sector once every 20 years, let's not waste it". Judging by the speech to UK civil society organisations, Ivan Lewis MP, shadow secretary of state for international development, is seizing the moment.

A child's right to protection is everything - and the Millennium Development Goals, agreed at the turn of the century with ambitious development targets for 2015, have achieved much we should be proud of.

This year marks 10 years since the start of conflict in Darfur and the numbers speak for themselves. During 3,655 days of violence, hundreds of thousands have died, millions have been forced from their home and 2.7 million still rely on food aid for survival. As we approach the grim anniversary of when violence began, I visited the war-ravaged region this week to see for myself the impact British aid is having on the ground. In many ways, the fact that I am only able to blog about it after returning from Darfur because of the security threat, speaks louder than any of the words I can write.

Even in tough times Britons are a generous people, David Cameron said today, as he defended the UK's international aid budget. The prime minister h...

If politicians are looking for where they can do the most real good for the least cost in cash and political capital, foreign aid should be at the top of their list.

The long-running debate over whether or not the UK should give state aid to India appears to have been settled with Justine Greening's announcement that the Department for International Development will cease sending money to India from 2015.

It seems, as far as the UK government is concerned, that aid no longer forms part of a moral commitment to global equity but is merely a business opportunity.

David Cameron is to appear on one of the US's most influential TV shows to "bang the drum for Britain" and encourage Americans to visit or set up a bu...

Tory backbencher Peter Bone left ministers and MPs furious after blocking an attempt to enshrine the UK's commitment to spend 0.7% of its income on ov...

Development charities have voiced disappointment that today's Queen's Speech did not include a commitment to enshrine in law the Government's commitme...

More than half of Europe's development aid budget is going to "middle-income" countries which should not qualify, MPs have warned. A report by a Ho...

The Government has been urged to drop its drive for increasing aid to help developing foreign countries by a group of Lords. The government has pl...

Tony Blair has insisted that British overseas aid "really does work" and is helping to save hundreds of thousands of lives. Defending the Governmen...

The amount of British aid lost to fraud and corruption could rise because of changes to how the money is targeted, an influential committee of MPs has...