This was the title of our annual National Conference this year, held on 15 and 16 July. On Saturday, day 1 of the conference, we heard from a wide range of perspectives what developing a better world through advocacy might look like.
RESULTS’ mission is to create the public and political will to end poverty by enabling people to exercise their own personal and political power for change. But in a world in which many organisations and individuals are using their voices to speak out on...
This month, our grassroots get-together covered the arcane topic of UN High-Level Meetings: What happens at these big diplomatic set-pieces, and how are they remotely relevant to the fight against global poverty and infectious diseases like tuberculosis?
Expert advocacy consultant Dr. Robyn Waite shared her insights gained from attempting to influence the second-ever ‘UN High-Level Meeting (HLM) on TB’, to be held on 22 September this year in New York. With Nation States jockeying to...
It’s very easy to think that something as large and catastrophic as a pandemic won’t happen to you until it does. Before 2020, the UK had not faced a pandemic as deadly as COVID-19 since the Spanish flu in 1918, and I’m sure if you asked anyone at the beginning of 2020 what would end up happening in the following months, they probably would not have believed you. It is worth noting, however, that the disbelief that a deadly and very contagious virus would spread throughout the UK and lead to...
Last week, the UK Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO) published its aid spending for nutrition report , showing that the UK Government decreased its funding for nutrition by a staggering 61.3% in 2021. The report further reveals that the number of FCDO-run nutrition programmes decreased for the third year in a row, with total nutrition spending slashed to its lowest...
For this month's conference call, we were joined by guest speaker Becky Knowles, from the International Pandemic and Preparedness Secretariat, to talk about the 100 Days Mission.
During the call, we discussed the importance of timely protection and prevention of pandemic diseases and how the world can be preparing for a next pandemic in the most effective and collaborative way possible. Becky highlighted the importance of the 100 Days Mission as a goal for countries around the world...
On 8 May 2023 , chants of ‘Yes we can end TB’ were heard coming out of the meeting room at the United Nations headquarters in New York. It was probably the first time any group of people had brought such a fierce energy and passion to what is usually a mundane UN system meeting. But this was no ordinary meeting: this was the UN Multi-stakeholder hearing on TB. The global TB community was united in what they were asking...
During this month's conference call, we were joined by guest speaker Eden Kulig, Public Affairs and Government Relations Advisor at Bond UK. Together, we discussed the importance of supporting asylum seekers as well as fighting global povery, highlighting how these two things are not mutaully exclusive or in conflict with each other.
During the call, we discussed the impact of financially supporting refugees in the UK on international development programmes, the perception that the...
This month we talked with Zander Wollcombe, Senior Advisor to Pandemic Action Network, about the urgent need for pandemic preparedness. The call was part of our campaign to raise awareness the '100 Days Mission' and global efforts to assure vaccines for all when the next pandemic hits.
During the call, Zander shared his expertise on pandemic preparedness and the importance of taking action to prevent and respond to global health crises. He emphasized the need for increased investment...
Friday 24 March is World Tuberculosis (TB) Day, marked across the world to increase public awareness of the disease and to push for improved and faster progress to end the TB epidemic by 2030. Tuberculosis is a deadly infectious disease that has been around for thousands of years, causing a devastating effect on individuals and communities. Despite TB being preventable and curable, in...
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