Dr Sharmin Zahan, Senior Program Manager for Health at BRAC, Bangladesh shares her thoughts on the UK's pledge to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.
Last week, 27 November 2014, the International Development Secretary of State, Justine Greening MP , reaffirmed the UK’s position as leader in global immunisation with the announcement of up to £1 billion to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance for 2016-2020 . The UK has been...
Dan Jones, Campaigns Manager, reports on a major campaigning success for RESULTS and our partners…
Yesterday, on 3rd December - International Day of Persons with Disabilities - RESULTS UK welcomed the launch of the UK Department for International Development (DFID)'s first ever 'Disability Framework' at...
We are pleased to announce we have officially launched our 2015 General Election campaign 'Progress, partnership, opportunity; a world free from poverty within a generation'. The campaign launched on Tuesday evening with our monthly grassroots conference call, a recording of which can be accessed here; and with the publication of our manifesto for the General Election.
As we get closer to Friday 5th December and the Third Reading of Michael Moore's Private Member's Bill on enshrining the UK's commitment to spending 0.7% of Gross National Income on Overseas Aid, we now have 62 MPs who have committed to Turn Up and Save Lives.
However, we're not there yet....we need at least 100 MPs to commit to turning up on the day in order to ensure that the Bill passes to the (hopefully) final stage - the House of...
Micronutrient Advocacy Officer, Anushree Shiroor, reports back from her recent trip to Rome for the historic ICN2 conference.
Last week, 193 member states came together for the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2) in Rome to discuss malnutrition as a global developmental challenge and present statements on the actions taken by their respective governments to address malnutrition in all its forms....
Helen Davis, member of the Poole grassroots group, reports on the success of their Autumn grassroots outreach and fundraising dinner.
The twin purposes of this event are to raise money to support RESULTS but also to give friends and family some idea of what we do and how we do it.
We held our supper this year in the brand new church hall of St Mary's in Longfleet Road, near Poole hospital. The three storey building is finished to a very high standard and boasts a...
Twenty years ago, representatives from different member states met in Rome to declare their united commitment to address global food insecurity and undernutrition. At that time, around 780 million did not have access to adequate food, and over 2000 million suffered from one or more micronutrient deficiencies, resulting from poor quality diets.
Since then, a lot has changed. We have made steady progress in reducing hunger and poverty. Prevalence of undernutrition has fallen from 18.7...
Yesterday, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond dismissed plans to enshrine in law Britain’s commitment to spend 0.7% of Gross National Income on overseas aid in the Daily Telegraph. Today, a response to the comments from NGOs, including RESULTS, has been published on the...
Following last week’s UK launch in parliament, today, marked by World Pneumonia Day, is the global launch of a new report on Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.
The report, A Chance to Reach Every Child: how full funding for Gavi can ensure immunisation for all , was produced jointly by the ACTION partnership and Save the Children builds momentum in the run-up to Gavi’s replenishment conference in Berlin on January 27 th 2015.
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