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The UK has scrapped three rounds of grants to small international development charities, prompting fury that it has wiped out funding for 42 projects around the world to save âless than the [£2.6m] cost of the Downing Street press roomâ.
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) told charities last week that rounds six, seven and eight of the Small Charities Challenge Fund (SCCF) would not go ahead because of aid cuts, cancelling in total about £2.1m of funds earmarked for new and future programmes, including many that had been approved.
âThe cruelty of these cuts cannot be overstated. For less than the cost of the Downing Street press room, small UK charities would have delivered more than 40 transformative projects to the worldâs most vulnerable people,â said Jess Price, a director at Health Improvement Project Zanzibar. âInstead of delivering this critical work, we are now trying to reco
Doing extraordinary good on the world stage?
On 1 February, the Myanmar military overthrew the elected government. By 1 May, the British government had cut millions of pounds of already committed aid, ending live programmes, including projects supporting people in Myanmar to resolve conflicts without violence and achieve peaceful change.
In its much heralded, and much delayed, Civil Society Partnership Review published in November 2016 then Secretary of State for International Development, Priti Patel, stated that, ‘Britain’s civil society organisations (CSOs) do extraordinary good around the world. From delivering life-saving assistance when disaster strikes, to addressing the underlying causes of deprivation, our CSOs are on the front line of the battle against extreme poverty. The Government will give them our strongest support.’ Patel declared that ‘together we will build a post-Brexit Britain that is generous, outward-looking and fully engaged on the world stage’.