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New research highlights Africa’s challenge of both protracted and forgotten humanitarian crises
New research by Development Initiatives finds that Ethiopia has been in the largest 10 recipients of humanitarian assistance every year for the last decade, and the Democratic Republic of Congo has featured as a main recipient for nine of the last 10 years – making these recurrent and protracted crises two of the most significant still ongoing today.
New organisational strategy 2016–2020
Our vision is a world without poverty that invests in human security, where everyone shares the benefits of opportunity and growth. Our mission is to ensure that decisions about the allocation of finance and resources result in an end to poverty, increase the resilience of the world’s most vulnerable people, and ensure no one is left behind.
Development Initiatives contributes to the 2016 Global Nutrition Report, which shows a change in trajectory is needed to end malnutrition by 2030
This year’s report concludes that the world is not currently on track to reach targets on nutrition, but that this trend could be reversed to end to global malnutrition by 2030.
Development Initiatives welcomes report of UN Secretary-General on the role of development cooperation in ending extreme poverty by 2030
This week saw the launch of the 2016 report of the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on development cooperation, entitled ‘Trends and progress in international development cooperation’.
Significant step forward achieved for transparency of humanitarian aid at the World Humanitarian Summit
Development Initiatives and Publish What You Fund welcome significant steps to improve the transparency of humanitarian aid taken at the World Humanitarian Summit held this week in Turkey.
International humanitarian assistance in 2015 reached a record total of US$28bn
Development Initiatives has today released figures based on new data that show total international humanitarian assistance given last year reached a record amount of US$28bn.
Development Initiatives welcomes the International Development Committee’s call for increased reporting to the IATI Standard
Development Initiatives (DI) has welcomed the report, particularly its call for DFID to use its leadership role to encourage other humanitarian actors to publish to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) Standard. DI provides the technical support to IATI, which aims to make information about aid spending easier to access, understand and use.
Momodou Touray appointed as DI’s new Poverty Research Director
Momodou leads DI’s new thematic area measuring the progress of people out of poverty, which seeks to drive commitments and much-needed investment towards improving poverty data.
Donors gave a record amount of aid for hosting refugees in 2015 while also increasing spending elsewhere
New data was released today by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) on global aid spending.