100 Day Mission: Impossible? Preparing for the Next Pandemic
Tom Cruise will grace our screens again this year trying to stop an enemy force and prevent an impending global disaster in another Mission: Impossible film. Yet, in the real world, similar efforts are also being made, but this time in pandemic prevention, preparedness and response (PPPR). This...
November Conference Call: reductions in ODA spending
This month, our grassroots campaign action is to hold the UK Government accountable for its deprioritisation of poverty reduction – including reducing its spending on Official Development Assistance (ODA), with...
Poverty eradication: Did the UK Government get the memo?
Poverty - however you choose to define it - has long been a part of the human experience, as have efforts to eradicate it. Just over a week ago, many of us joined the United Nations in marking the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (on Monday 17 October), a day which can be traced...
Parliament debates how to ensure equitable access to vaccines
At the outset of the new year, a cross-party group of MP gathered at a backbench business debate in Westminster Hall to discuss global access to vaccines, and the UK Government’s part in the international response to-date .
14 Jan 2022
“It is time...
“We have to do what’s right even if we don’t win” - Campaigners reflect on the fight for 0.7%
Thank you to Richard, Cameron, Sabah and Peter for sharing your reflections, and to Karen for the quote used in the blog title.
A 'Save 0.7%' photo stunt by the RESULTS London group, 2020.
Let’s start this blog in 1970, the year countries made a commitment...
September Grassroots Conference Call: Nutrition for Growth - it's time to commit!
In our September grassroots conference call, we focused on the issue of nutrition, with just weeks to go now before the important Nutrition for Growth Summit in early December. But that's not all! With the UN climate conference (COP-26) coming up in Glasgow, there's a great opportunity to use...
August Grassroots Conference Call
The topic of this month's call was the work of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance , and why the UK must honour its pledges to global health funds despite the cuts to the Official Development Assistance (ODA) budget. We were delighted to welcome...
July Grassroots Conference Call
Our July conference call addressed the topic of COVID-19 Vaccine inequity. We discussed the necessity for countries with excess vaccines to urgently share doses with countries facing barriers to accessing vaccines.
Our expert guest speaker, Waiswa Nkwanga, Senior Associate at the...
“Callous and short-sighted.” What do the aid cuts mean for global health and education?
The Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab recently confirmed the Government’s plans to slash global health and education funding in the middle of the worst pandemic in a century.
In a...
February Grassroots Conference Call 2021- Oppose the aid cuts!
On Tuesday 2nd February, 45 RESULTS UK campaigners from across the country came together for our monthly network-wide call to hear about what is happening with UK aid at the moment and why we should fight against the proposed cuts to the aid budget. Find out about the February ‘Oppose...
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