Susannah Birkwood
Contributor at Freelance
Freelance journalist & comms pro specialising in wildlife + conservation, #globaldev, civil society, Spanish + LatAm affairs + INGO media | Ex: @WWF @Bloomberg
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3 days ago |
devex.com | Susannah Birkwood
The U.K. government has again altered aid expenditure for the 2025-2026 financial year, according to comments made during a parliamentary committee hearing Tuesday. U.K. Chancellor Rachel Reeves had announced in the Spring Statement in March that aid cuts would start immediately with a reduction of £500 million from the original budget in 2025-26.
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1 week ago |
devex.com | Susannah Birkwood
The U.K. government has declined to make new spending commitments on nutrition in a move described as “deeply concerning” by nutrition experts — and defying recent parliamentary recommendations. Last week, the U.K. government said its ongoing spending review process meant it was unable to commit funding at March’sNutrition for Growth, or N4G, summit in France or to make a future pledge to UNICEF’s Child Nutrition Fund, which was co-founded by the then-Conservative U.K. government in 2022.
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2 weeks ago |
sussexexpress.co.uk | Susannah Birkwood
More than 150,000 people in the UK live with MS and many of them are unable to leave their house without help. Across the UK as a whole, uneven pavements, inaccessible town centres and insufficient public transport have left around 96,000 people with MS effectively imprisoned in their own homes, according to a report from the MS Trust.
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3 weeks ago |
devex.com | Susannah Birkwood
The United Kingdom is reviewing the nearly £2 billion it pledged to the World Bank’s concessional fund for the world’s lowest-income countries just 6 months ago in a move that has drawn sharp criticism from development insiders, who view it as the first wave of “devastating” consequences of the government’s decision to cut the aid budget.
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3 weeks ago |
devex.com | Susannah Birkwood
The U.K. development minister was accused of being “disrespectful” and “naïve” by the chair of a parliamentary committee on Tuesday, at a hearing in which she said that the U.K. should no longer be seen “as a global charity.” Member of Parliament Sarah Champion, who is chair of theInternational Development Committee, said at the committee’s hearing Tuesday that she was frustrated that Jenny Chapman — who was appointed as minister of state for international development, Latin America, and...
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