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Since last year’s announcement of the cuts to UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) we have received and analysed drips of information, from the Spring Statement 2025, the

Five years since the change in government in Afghanistan, millions of Afghans remain trapped in a cycle of crisis, displacement and vulnerability. While humanitarian assistance has prevented far worse outcomes, emergency aid alone cannot provide a sustainable future. UK-based NGOs, working alongside Afghan organisations and communit...

As conflicts become increasingly urbanised, the use of explosive weapons in populated areas (EWIPA) has become a common feature of war.

This is causing devastating human suffering and widespread destruction of civilian infrastru...

Access to safe water is essential for public health, dignity and stability.

Yet in fragile and conflict-affected countries such as Yemen, water systems are vulnerable not only to local conflict but also to global geopolitical instability.

Humanitarian water, sanitation and hygien...

Picture this: you are seven years old, sitting on a classroom floor with 120 other children.

Your teacher is teaching subtraction. There are no desks. No textbooks. No colourful posters. No smartboard. You have a few bottle tops to use as counters. 

Then the sky turns dark. Wind rushes through the open windows and through cracks in the brick wall. Thunder...