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Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hugo Swire discussing the programme in 2015. The Chevening Scholarship is an international scholarship, funded by the British Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and partner organizations, [1] that enables foreign students to study at universities in the United Kingdom. [2]
The Humanitarian Medal is a British award intended to recognise the efforts of those involved in providing aid and support to human welfare during or in the aftermath of a humanitarian crisis. The medal is awarded to people that have responded to emergencies both in the United Kingdom or overseas.
In 2021, the UK government cut its overseas aid budget from 0.7% to 0.5% of Gross National Income [40] despite UK legislation against such a move. [ 41 ] [ 42 ] These cuts, amounting to GBP 4 billion, [ 43 ] reduced funding for humanitarian intervention by 44% [ 44 ] in places like Yemen and Syria . [ 43 ]
The amount of the aid budget being used by the Home Office to support refugees in the UK increased again in 2023. Overseas aid spending on refugees in the UK rises to £4.3bn Skip to main content
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Other Official Flows (OOF): Transactions by the official sector with countries on the List of Aid Recipients which do not meet the conditions for eligibility as Official Development Assistance or Official Aid, either because they are not primarily aimed at development, or because they have a grant element of less than 25 percent.
The European Union accumulated a higher portion of GDP as a form of foreign aid than any other economic union. [ 3 ] The United States is a small contributor relative to GNI (0.18% 2016 [ 4 ] ) but is the largest single DAC donor of ODA in 2019 (US$34.6 billion), followed by Germany (0.6% GNI, US$23.8 billion), the United Kingdom (0.7%, US$19.4 ...
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