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The UK aid logo is often used to publicly acknowledge DFID's development programmes are funded by UK taxpayers. The DFID's main programme areas of work were Education, Health, Social Services, Water Supply and Sanitation, Government and Civil Society, Economic Sector (including Infrastructure, Production Sectors and Developing Planning ...
The head of mission to an international organization is usually a permanent representative. For some nations a consul or consul-general is appointed. The positions have a dual role, being representatives of the British monarchy and the British government ; they are recommended by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office , and then ...
The Global Innovation Fund (GIF) announced the first two investments made under its 'Innovating for Climate Resilience fund', which was launched at COP26 with support from the UK's Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and in partnership with the Adaptation Research Alliance and the Global Resilience Partnership. [48]
British International Investment, (formerly CDC Group plc, Commonwealth Development Corporation, and Colonial Development Corporation) [2] is the development finance institution of the UK government. [3] The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office is responsible for the organisation, and is the sole shareholder. [4]
The minister of state for development, formerly the minister of state for development and Africa [1] and the secretary of state for international development, is a senior minister of the Crown within the Government of the United Kingdom. The officeholder headed the Department for International Development (DFID) as secretary of state from 1997 ...
The goal of the fund is to invest alongside the private sector in projects within the United Kingdom. The bank has a total capitalisation of £27.8 billion. The fund is a "strategic" sovereign wealth fund, targeting non-financial objectives such as development goals. [1] However, the fund's classification as a sovereign wealth fund is contentious.
He was deputy High Commissioner to Cyprus 2000–04; deputy Governor of Gibraltar 2005–08 (with a spell as acting Governor in 2006); Director, South Asia, at the FCO 2008–09; Director, Foreign Policy and Afghanistan, and Pakistan Co-ordinator at the Cabinet Office 2009–11; deputy head of mission at Washington, D.C. 2011–14; and was ...
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office employs approximately 13,200 staff in the UK and in more than 260 Posts overseas. Approximately one-third of these employees are UK-based civil servants (including members of HM Diplomatic Service ) and two-thirds are employed locally by Posts overseas.