Since the 2013 summit in London, ‘Nutrition for Growth’ or #N4G has become a name many of us are familiar with. This successful event brought together donors, governments, businesses, civil society organisations and philanthropists together for a largely neglected cause – malnutrition. The UK government, Brazil and Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF)...
May 2016 has been an important month, with a number of key summits and meetings accelerating action towards tackling the critical global challenges that face us today. These include the World Humanitarian Summit to mobilise action to prevent and tackle humanitarian crises, the World Health Assembly to encourage Ministers of Health to adopt necessary resolutions for...
I am pleased to share that a recording of the June conference call is now available to download here .
This month’s call focused on supporting lifesaving UK Aid and the action we are asking you to take ahead of the parliamentary debate on the 13th June, writing to your MP to share why you’re #ProudOfAid. We were joined by a special guest...
With less than 3 weeks to go until the RESULTS National Conference 2016, things are starting to heat up!
We’ve got a brilliant line up of leading thinkers, campaigners and practitioners all ready to talk to you about where they stand on the hottest international development debates, with new speakers being confirmed each day. If you’ve already bought a ticket, then we can’t wait for you to join us in London. And if you haven’t got yours yet, then there’s still time to...
At RESULTS UK we know that investing in education promotes prosperity, leads to more stable societies and fosters strong, resilient communities. Yesterday we were pleased to see that the UK took a leading role in launching a new initiative: Education Cannot Wait – a fund for education in emergencies.
Parliamentary Advocacy Officer for Education, Ben Sadek, explains what the fund is, why it is needed, and what more needs to happen to ensure that every young person trapped in a...
Leaders meeting at the World Humanitarian Summit could transform the way we respond to the increasingly severe disasters caused by climate change. Here's how.
Last month was the hottest April on record globally, by a massive margin - the seventh month in a row to smash the global temperature record. 2015 was our planet's...
Today’s publication of Lord Jim O’Neill’s ground-breaking global Review on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) should act as the wake-up call the world desperately needs. The recommendations of the review quite rightly identify tuberculosis as the “cornerstone of the global AMR challenge”. We have to act and we have to act now.
Despite the progress that has been made to date, HIV remains one of the deadliest infectious killers: in 2014 the epidemic killed 1.2 million people, while a further 2 million contracted HIV. It is clear there is a long way to go before we realise Global Goals’ target 3.3 to end the epidemic by 2030.
Indeed, while critically important, existing tools are unlikely to end HIV and AIDS. Even with a massive scale-up of current and...
This week our campaign to Take Out TB took a big step forward with some fantastic news from Canada: Justin Trudeau announced that Canada will pledge CAD785 million to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria for its 2017-19 replenishment (a 20% increase on its last pledge three years ago) and that Canada will also host the Fund's Pledging Conference on 16 September 2016 in Montreal.
I am pleased to share that a recording of the May conference call is now available to download here .
This month’s call focused on our Risky Business campaign and the action we are asking you to take ahead of the World Humanitarian Summit, writing to Desmond Swayne on why climate risk insurance should be firmly on the agenda. We heard an...
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