Case studies

Landmine ladies - clearing Sri Lanka's deadly harvest

01 April 2010

Clearing land mines in northern Sri Lanka

Fear free living in Cambodia

01 April 2010

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

22 March 2010

A brand new toilet block has brought a new lease of life to Kuwapani School

Water to build peace in Helmand

22 March 2010

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

10 March 2010

One in three children in developing countries is chronically malnourished, or stunted.

Jobs bring food for Ethiopia's poor

10 March 2010

A combination of failed rains and rising prices led to food shortages across Ethiopia in 2008

Bangladesh: The Chars Livelihoods Programme

10 March 2010

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

10 March 2010

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?

09 March 2010

More than a billion people in the world are hungry. The number is going up rather than down.

Emergency nutrition: a lifesaver in Ethiopia

09 March 2010

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

09 March 2010

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