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Concern Worldwide's statement on international development minister comments
At the International Development Committee (IDC) session yesterday, Baroness Chapman was right when she said, “The world has changed.”
Today, the world faces a serious climate and conflict crisis. More than 300 million people are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance. One in six children are growing up in conflict zones. The need for global solidarity, humanity and support for the world’s most vulnerable has never been greater.
However, Baroness Chapman was mistaken to describe the international development budget as “a global charity” over the years, when the UK government spent less than one pence in every pound tackling sudden emergencies with life-saving assistance, building longer term resilience through quality programmes across health, education, nutrition and social protection, and investing in research to improve expertise, efficiency and impact.
These are the means to reducing poverty, strengthening and stabilising countries, and making the world a safer place, which Baroness Chapman mentioned as the aims of this government.
Ruthlessly slashing the UK aid budget, already reduced from a previous round of cuts, and of which a third is spent domestically, leaves even less to tackle the root causes and impacts of crises around the world, and will unravel decades of positive efforts.
Defending these aid cuts is defending the act of balancing the books off the backs of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable.
Anushree Rao, Director of Advocacy and Institutional Relationships
