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'I'm in love with the forest now - I want to protect it'
08 July 2010
From illegal loggers to community rangers in Indonesia
Your freedom
06 July 2010
The government has launched the Your Freedom website to allow as many people in the UK as possible to put forward their ideas on what laws and regulations should be done away with.
Postcard from the field: South Africa
In his last instalment Peter Kerby takes a look at what the World Cup will mean for South Africa beyond the final whistle
Mitchell hails new, powerful agency for women
05 July 2010
The Government today welcomed a new era for women in developing countries as UN members agreed details of a new UN agency for women and gender issues.
Cost-saving measures to boost help for world's poor
International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell announced further cash-saving measures as part of an ongoing drive to get value for money out of the Government’s aid budget.
Young people hear why education beats poverty
30 June 2010
Stephen O’Brien yesterday urged young people to join the global challenge to get 72 million children from developing countries into school.
Praise for school's links with Sri Lanka and Pakistan
29 June 2010
Andrew Mitchell today met with children from a Keighley school to find out about their educational partnership with schools in Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
28 June 2010
England may have been knocked out, but Peter Kerby finds success elsewhere in South Africa
Andrew Mitchell delivers first overseas speech in Washington
26 June 2010
Secretary of State Andrew Mitchell's first overseas speech given at Carnegie Endowment, Washington DC
Mineral deposits can help lift Afghanistan out of poverty
25 June 2010
Deposits of minerals in Afghanistan such as iron, copper, gold, silver, platinum, as well as oil and natural gas, have the potential to help lift the country out of poverty.
DFID Overseas Territories Department's relocation to East Kilbride
24 June 2010
DFID is relocating its Overseas Territories Department (OTD) to its other Headquarter site in East Kilbride, Scotland.
'Enterprise can fight global poverty'
23 June 2010
The private sector needs to change its relationship with the world’s poorest people, International Development Minister Alan Duncan said today
DFID helps Indonesia move toward oil and gas transparency
Government of Indonesia adopts Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
The politics of poverty
Citizens, States and Elites in development: Lessons from DFID-funded research
Mitchell welcomes Oxfam’s Niger appeal
21 June 2010
Oxfam today launched a £7 million emergency appeal to help more than 800,000 of the most vulnerable people across West Africa
18 June 2010
One week into the World Cup, our man in Pretoria struggles to keep a stiff upper lip. Read his update
International assessment sets out action to meet MDGS
Helen Clark, head of UNDP launches international assessment of action needed to meet MDGs.
CDC publishes annual development review report for 2009
17 June 2010
CDC, the UK government owned development finance institution has published its annual Development Review report for 2009 detailing its investment impact in poorer countries.
Aid budget to be refocused to deliver better results
16 June 2010
The UK will focus its aid on fewer countries in a move designed to increase the impact of funding on the world’s poorest people
Alan Duncan visits Vietnam to address UN conference
15 June 2010
Minister of State Alan Duncan visits Vietnam to speak at the UN Delivering as One conference in Hanoi.