25 years of reducing world poverty

• This is the introduction to a series of short articles on the progress the world has made in the last 25 years on reducing extreme poverty, and particularly the role of the UK in that.
• It is also about the setbacks we are seeing right now as a result of the global COVID pandemic, war in Ukraine and its impact on food and fuel prices, and the climate emergency.
• And it looks ahead to what the UK government should be doing to restore its position as a world leader on global development. ?

I have worked in various parts of the international development sector over the last 25 years.?I worked in the Department for International Development for its first ten years. I also worked in No 10 and advised Prime Minister Tony Blair on the Gleneagles G8 Summit on Africa, climate and development.?I then worked for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for 7 years, on policy and advocacy, as Deputy Director, Global Development, then Director, Africa. For the last eight years, I was Chief Executive of CARE International UK, one of the largest international development and humanitarian agencies, working on 100 countries around the world and a member of the Disasters Emergency Committee.

This contents list includes links to the articles:

1.????Reducing poverty by 75%

2.????A new start in 1997 – the Department for International Development - and why we still need one now

3.????How we measure progress – UN goals

4.????New democracies – South Africa and Afghanistan

5.????New diseases – AIDS and Covid

6.????Drop the Debt to fund education for all – a new debt crisis looms

7.????UK Public Opinion about global poverty

8.????Aid and the 0.7% target

9.????Saving children’s lives

10.??March4Women and equality

11.??Disasters – tsunamis, war and climate

12.??It's not all about aid – other policies, trade, and the private sector

13. Another new start – looking ahead?- * latest article *