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Today's reshuffle: tomorrow's legacy for children?


Gavin Crowden, UNICEF UK's  International Policy and Parliamentary Manager, asks: What is Andrew Mitchell's legacy for DFID? 

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Making Aid Work: A report from Busan

Significant progress was made at the recent Aid Effectiveness Forum in Busan, South Korea, says UNICEF UK Policy and Research Officer Rosie Stainton, but there is still much to do.

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World leaders in Durban must make this the children’s climate change conference

Antony Spalton, specialist in Disaster Risk Reduction, has seen first-hand the devastating effects that climate-linked disasters can have on children’s lives. He tells us what leaders at the COP17 climate change summit in Durban can do about it.

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UNICEF UK at the Labour Party Conference 2011

International policy officer, and party conference rookie, Rosie Stainton on UNICEF UK's event at the Labour Party Conference on climate change and children - and why Labour's emerging development is still very much in development.

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The UK Government keeps its promise on overseas aid

Last week, the Government announced that it would meet its commitment to increase aid to 0.7 per cent of gross national income (GNI) by 2013. Given that it also announced significant cuts across other areas of public spending, the coalition certainly...

Children Can't Wait

Four days ago, I ran the Royal Parks Half Marathon. If you walk it, it is a bracing 13 mile stroll that passes several historic London landmarks and lets you wander round Hyde Park as though it were a pleasant meadow in some dappled corner of England...

What did the MDG Summit achieve for children? The outcomes de-junked

Since the UN MDG Summit finished we are already another week closer to the deadline for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2015. With only 5 years (or 260 weeks) to go to achieve these targets the pressure was really on global leaders at the MDG...

Can Robin Hood save the World's Poorest

Can Robin Hood save the World’s Poorest? – that was the question posed on Tuesday night at an event hosted by UNICEF UK and Bright Blue . Robin Hood of course refers not to a swashbuckling Kevin Costner or Russell Crowe but instead to the...