This month’s conference call centred on the recent Official Development Assistance and USAID in the UK and the USA.
We were joined by Lisa Marchal, Senior Manager (Grassroots Impact) at Results US, as well as Vinny Wooding, our Senior Parliamentary Affairs Manager at Results UK.
The shifting narratives around ‘foreign aid’ on both sides of the Atlantic pose difficult questions for international development campaigners. On this call we discussed how best to respond to those challenges.
Links shared on the call:
March action request – write to David Lammy about the cuts
‘I took action’ button on the website to report your successes
Ricci’s blog post – ‘Cracking the development jargon’
OECD definition of what counts as Official Development Assistance (ODA)
New Development Minister, Baroness Chapman of Darlington
Vinny Wooding’s blog post – ‘The Government’s internationalism is in tatters’
BBC coverage of the announcement of aid cuts to fund increases in military spending
Guardian article – ‘Dismay as UK poised to cut funding for global vaccination group Gavi’
Another Guardian article on the possible implications of the cuts for Gavi