You can now watch the full panel session recording from our Beyond Futures session on 'the importance and role of community engagement'. Read all about it and watch here: #internationaldevelopment#

International development is central to foreign policy.   As UK Governor to @WorldBankGroup, I'll take personal leadership of the UK's work on development and climate.   Working with @kirstyjmcneill, we'll ensure the UK plays a leading role.

We should rename the Agency of International Development to the Agency of Intergalactic Development with a new symbol of a spaceship and sun, and the sole mission of expanding humanity to the entire galaxy.

We are saddened to share the passing of Prof John Lowe who made a lasting contribution to @wlv_uni over 27 years, leading major international development and teacher training projects in more than 30 countries. His spirit and legacy live on in our work.

“When the compact was received, the health ministry studied it . . . and [it] was brought to cabinet, and we flagged several things,” says John Dramani Mahama, president of the Republic of Ghana, regarding the health compact the United States offered to replace the funding Ghana lost due to the shutdown of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). “It says that we shall give the United States our pathogen profile,” he recalls. “It also says we should give our medical records. . . . And then it says we would have to put up a certain amount of money as part of the program into health care, and then it also says that any medications or any medical products that shall be brought into our country, our food and drugs administration has absolutely no rights to inspect. I mean, it was humiliating.”