{"id":59492,"date":"2025-07-24T20:43:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T20:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/africa-to-be-hit-hard-as-uk-foreign-aid-cuts-revealed"},"modified":"2025-07-24T21:14:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T21:14:59","slug":"africa-to-be-hit-hard-as-uk-foreign-aid-cuts-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/africa-to-be-hit-hard-as-uk-foreign-aid-cuts-revealed","title":{"rendered":"Africa to be hit hard as UK foreign aid cuts revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>The government has revealed details of its plans to cut foreign aid, with support for children\u2019s education and women\u2019s health in Africa facing the biggest reductions.<\/p>\n<p>The government said in February it would slash foreign aid spending by 40% \u2013 from 0.5% of gross national income to 0.3% \u2013 to increase defence spending to 2.5% after pressure from the US.<\/p>\n<p>A Foreign Office report and impact assessment show the biggest cuts this year will come in Africa, with less spent on women\u2019s health and water sanitation with increased risks, it says, of disease and death.<\/p>\n<p>Aid charities have criticised the move, saying the cuts would impact the world\u2019s most vulnerable people.<\/p>\n<p>But the government said spending on multilateral aid bodies \u2013 money given to international organisations like the World Bank \u2013 would be protected, including the Gavi vaccine alliance, and it said the UK would also continue to play a key humanitarian role in hotspots such as Gaza, Ukraine and Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>Baroness Chapman, minister for development, said: \u201cEvery pound must work harder for UK taxpayers and the people we help around the world and these figures show how we are starting to do just that through having a clear focus and priorities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The government said the cuts follow \u201ca line-by-line strategic review of aid\u201d by the minister, which focused on \u201cprioritisation, efficiency, protecting planned humanitarian support and live contracts while ensuring responsible exit from programming where necessary\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Foreign Office said bilateral support \u2013 aid going directly to the recipient country \u2013 for some countries would decrease and multilateral organisations deemed to be underperforming would face future funding cuts. It has not yet announced which countries will be affected.<\/p>\n<p>The move has been criticised by International Development Committee chair Sarah Champion, who said it appears the cuts \u201cwill come at the expense of some of the world\u2019s most vulnerable people\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Liberal Democrat international development spokesperson Monica Harding said slashing UK aid spending to its \u201clowest level this century will have an appalling impact on some of the world\u2019s poorest and most vulnerable people\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is only the beginning \u2013 we will see far deeper and crueller cuts next year when most of the reduction happens,\u201d she warned.<\/p>\n<p>Bond, a UK network for international development organisations, said it was clear the government was \u201cdeprioritising\u201d funding \u201cfor education, gender and countries experiencing humanitarian crises such as South Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia, and surprisingly the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Sudan, which the government said would be protected\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is concerning that bilateral funding for Africa, gender, education and health programmes will drop,\u201d Bond policy director Gideon Rabinowitz said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe world\u2019s most marginalised communities, particularly those experiencing conflict and women and girls, will pay the highest price for these political choices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt a time when the US has gutted all gender programming, the UK should be stepping up, not stepping back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unicef, a UN agency providing aid to children, said the cuts \u201cwill have a devastating and unequal impact on children and women\u201d and called the move \u201cdeeply short-sighted\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Philip Goodwin, Unicef UK chief executive, said: \u201cWe urge the government to adopt a new strategic approach that places vulnerable children at the heart of its aid programmes and policies&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt least 25% of aid should be directed to child-focused initiatives, ensuring that children\u2019s health, nutrition, education, and protection are prioritised.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>British-founded charity Street Child told the BBC that some of its work to help children get access to education in Sierra Leone, South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo \u2013 where British aid has been a main backer \u2013 will come to an end because of the cuts.<\/p>\n<p>CEO Tom Dannatt said education was the greatest long-term builder of hope, and he described reducing the support as \u201csad and short-sighted\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo children who used to go to school will not go to school, and so, more children will be found roaming the streets and ploughing fields and not developing their critical faculties,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhereas they should be in school learning and having a chance to build a brighter future for themselves and for their societies, but because of these cuts by British aid for the poorest children, especially in the poorest countries, that\u2019s not the reality anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Foreign aid has come under intense scrutiny in recent years, with the one cabinet minister admitting the public no longer supports spending on it.<\/p>\n<p>One organisation that escaped the cuts was the World Bank. The Foreign Office confirmed that the International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank\u2019s fund for the world\u2019s lowest income countries, would receive \u00a31.98bn in funding from the UK over the next three years, helping the organisation benefit 1.9 billion people.<\/p>\n<p>The Labour governments under Sir Tony Blair and Gordon Brown committed to increasing the overseas aid budget to 0.7% of national income.<\/p>\n<p>The target was reached in 2013 under David Cameron\u2019s Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government, before being enshrined in law in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>However, aid spending was cut to 0.5% of national income in 2021 under the Conservatives, blaming the economic pressures of Covid.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Lesotho<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Lesotho. 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