Latest official press releases from the DFID Press Office, listed from the present date back to January 2005.
Please note that some documents may require Acrobat Reader to be viewed.
Press releases RSS feed | What's RSS?
UKaid transforms voting system in Nepal
05 April 2010
More than 13 million voters in Nepal to be registered
UKaid to build Yemen from the bottom up
01 April 2010
DFID programme will mean paid jobs and children in schools
UK drive to end child diarrhoea deaths
More UK support for diarrhoea vaccines and treatment
UK aid hits 45 year high
ODA stats show highest UK spend on aid since 1964
Provisional UK Official Development Assistance as a proportion of Gross National Income, 2009
UK publishes ODA figures as a proportion of GNI
Helping the poorest in the world’s biggest cities
31 March 2010
DFID support to Nigerian megacity, Lagos
DFID announces more support for jobs and co-ops across Africa
25 March 2010
DFID support will create 4,000 jobs across 1,100 co-operatives in Africa
Budget 2010: DFID commits to make £150 million efficiency savings whilst keeping pledges to the world's poor
24 March 2010
DFID will continue its commitment to spend 0.7% of GNI on development
Earthquakes and prison breaks - UKaid in Haiti
Mike Foster sees work to rebuild Haiti prisons among UKaid projects
World's poorest children among first to get life-saving pneumococcal vaccines
23 March 2010
Pharma giants back cheaper pneumococcal vaccines for poorest children
UK aid to slash TB deaths
A new drive to slash the number of TB deaths in the world’s poorest countries receives £12 million UK aid from DFID
UKaid to stamp out waterborne diseases in Nigeria
22 March 2010
UK project will help boost water and sanitation for up to two million Nigerians
UK pledges major support to tackle extreme poverty in Zambia
18 March 2010
69,000 households in Zambia will be helped out of extreme poverty by 2019 thanks to an expanded social protection programme that will receive £38 million from DFID over the next ten years.
UK Government announces £5 million to support the peace process in Nepal
17 March 2010
DFID today committed £5 million (550 million NRS) in UKaid to be spent through the Nepal Peace Trust Fund (NPTF) in support of the peace process in Nepal.
New drive to tackle malnutrition in 12 million children
11 March 2010
A new fight against malnutrition is being launched by The Department for International Development (DFID), focussing on the six countries that are home to half of all undernourished children under five in the world.
UK calls for bold new plan to get poverty goals back on track
The UK will press world leaders to agree to an ambitious action plan to get the Millennium Development Goals back on track to be achieved by 2015, Douglas Alexander said today.
New climate network to link developing countries and drive adaptation and mitigation policy development
A climate and development initiative linking over 60 of the world’s poorest countries will be managed by an alliance led by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, it was announced at the Agenda 2010 (DFID) annual conference today.
UK announces additional aid for Somalia
10 March 2010
The UK will provide humanitarian aid to help Somalia provide emergency food, clean water and medicine for 3.2 million people, International Development Secretary, Douglas Alexander announced today.
The Bottom Line: Making business work for the poor
Gareth Thomas announces new facility to support the role of business in developing countries
Britain backs billion condoms for South Africa as part of new drive to re-energise global efforts to tackle HIV and AIDS
09 March 2010
UK gives £1 million to tackle HIV infection rate
