Care report: education and child marriage imbalance

Great Care report on 20 nations of child marriage greater than education. http://vowsofpoverty.care.org

Tanzania school charity

An interesting Tanzanian charity for schools: http://www.edukaid.com/ Surprising statistic that DFID funding via large NGO@S has increased to c.62% and the World Bank c.26% (from the 82% increase in 2013 to achieve 0.7%GNI). How much funding will be spent on fancy offices in London and Geneva and New York rather than in LDC's?

#globalgoals launch

Very exciting with the launch of the Global Goals this week and the challenge of the 58M children not in primary school - and the rollout of the World's Biggest School Lesson.

Shadow DFID and #globalgoals

Interesting to see how the new Shadow International Development Minister Diane Abbott raises #globalgoals

One campaign and UK aid

The One campaign details only 38% of UK aid linked to supporting the bottom 50 poorest nations. Surely that will be reversed?

Ebola failure

Astonishing that only Medecins Sans Frontieres until the last week or so have been providing 70 hospital beds in Sierra Leone. What have WHO and Governments and the other NGO's been doing?

$4M reward for Boko Haram kidnap girls

#Bringbackourgirls kidnappers now have $4M reward on the leader's head for taking over 200 Nigerian schoolgirls and threatening to sell them. Who are the rest of the bandits?