All posts tagged "Department for International Development"

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  UK appoints head of merging foreign and aid departments

  Sir Philip Barton has been appointed permanent under-secretary at the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). Barton will head up the new department, which is to be formed next

  • Posted August 4, 2020
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  UK to merge aid and diplomacy departments

  The Department for International Development (DfID), which manages the UK’s overseas aid, and the Foreign Office (FCO) are to merge this autumn. The move was reported by the BBC, and

  • Posted June 16, 2020
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  UK plans African cities centre

  The UK is to set up a specialist centre that will help to improve the way African cities are planned, built and run, with the aim of making urban centres

  • Posted January 22, 2020
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  UK-Australian space tech scheme to boost Pacific climate resilience

  The UK Space Agency and Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, have invited international partners to work with them on projects designed to deliver sustainable benefits to small island developing states

  • Posted November 6, 2019
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  Aid, abetted: how UK spending watchdog has improved value in aid budgets

  The UK’s foreign aid spending watchdog, the Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI), is “still a well-kept secret,” according to ICAI chief commissioner Dr Tamsyn Barton. But the little-known organisation

  • Posted July 11, 2019
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  Britain’s UN ambassador to lead international development department

  Matthew Rycroft, the UK’s ambassador to the United Nations, has been appointed as permanent secretary at Britain’s foreign aid ministry, the Department for International Development (DfID). The appointment of the

  • Posted October 3, 2017
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