Case studies provide real-life examples of our policies in practice. You can search the case studies below to find examples of how individuals and communities benefit on the ground from our fight against poverty.
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Landmine ladies - clearing Sri Lanka's deadly harvest
01 April 2010
Clearing land mines in northern Sri Lanka
Fear free living in Cambodia
DFID-funded mine-clearance has seen 120,000 people return to safe living
Loans guarantee small business success in Moldova
24 March 2010
Farmers and bakers among thousands to build a business
Vulnerable boys find their vocation in Tanzania
23 March 2010
A DFID-funded scheme is giving boys bright hopes for their futures
Safer, shorter, better…
22 March 2010
A new UKaid UNICEF water project aims to bring safe drinking water to around 160,000 people and improve sanitation to around 300,000, across Eritrea.
A school flush with success in Nepal
A brand new toilet block has brought a new lease of life to Kuwapani School
Water to build peace in Helmand
Helmand River Basin Project will give people an alternative to illicit activity
The school run
18 March 2010
Leon’s school is unusual – it’s in the middle of the bush! It is one of a network of schools providing an education for children whose families have taken refuge from conflict in the country.
Logged on
16 March 2010
The Ulu Masen forest, in Aceh province, is at serious risk from illegal logging which is why a new project is re-training loggers like Muktar as forest rangers.
Express delivery
11 March 2010
No wonder Kiran Rawat is especially proud of her baby boy, Keshav. She nearly lost him. But, thanks to the 'Mums Express', a project supported by UKaid from the Department for International Development, his life was saved.
A community holding their government to account
10 March 2010
In Barwani, a remote district of Madhya Pradesh, the writing on the wall of the Anganwadi is not graffiti
Hoping to beat malnutrition
One in three children in developing countries is chronically malnourished, or stunted.
Jobs bring food for Ethiopia's poor
A combination of failed rains and rising prices led to food shortages across Ethiopia in 2008
Bangladesh: The Chars Livelihoods Programme
The Chars Livelihoods Programme aims to improve the livelihoods of 1 million extremely poor and vulnerable island chars dwellers
A safe arrival for India’s newborns
The Janani Express is taking pregnant women to hospital in remote parts of India
The spice of life
09 March 2010
Halimata Ouedraogo and Wend Panga('Power of God')receive business coaching from the development agency International Service (IS),a scheme supported by UKaid.
India: not enough to eat?
More than a billion people in the world are hungry. The number is going up rather than down.
Emergency nutrition: a lifesaver in Ethiopia
During the past 5 years, a new model for the community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) has been adopted globally and is radically improving the impact of treatment programmes
Fertile soil secures food in Zimbabwe
Conservation farming has been shown to produce crop yields almost 60% higher than those produced by traditional farming methods.
The laptop ladies of rural Bangladesh
08 March 2010
Information technology is transforming gender relations in some of Bangladesh's poorest places
