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We’re still playing catch up on a global response to the crisis – ONE reaction to the Global Health Summit

EU leaders at the Global Held summit organised by the G20 Presidency and the European Commission pledged a strong package of announcements

UK backs sharing COVID-19 vaccines now to prevent new strains from emerging

New polling released today shows UK public support for sharing doses of COVID-19 vaccines with poorer countries now to help prevent new strains emerging in places that are unable to access the vaccine. 

ONE response to G7 Foreign and Development Ministers’ meeting: Good news for education is undermined by UK cuts

Today, Foreign and Development Ministers of the G7 countries committed to targets to boost girls’ education. This is an important step in addressing the global learning crisis. However, the Government has set itself these goals against the backdrop of cutting UK aid, potentially thwarting progress at the outset and sending a damaging signal in the same year as Britain is hosting the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) replenishment .

393 million children unable to read: The world’s shocking lost potential

More than 393 million children have failed to gain the basic literacy skills at age 10 since world leaders adopted the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015, according to a new analysis tool launched today.

ONE Responds to statement on cuts to UK aid

Today, after months of speculation, the UK Government has finally revealed their some additional details of their plans to cut the UK aid budget. Read our response.

ONE reaction to the 2020 preliminary ODA figures

The ONE Campaign reacts to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Development Assistance Committee (OECD DAC) released today its preliminary figures for 2020

ONE Campaign reacts to G20 Finance Ministers meeting 

ONE responds to the communique released following today’s meeting of G20 Finance Ministers. The ONE Campaign responds with ‘a welcome relief’

Statement on Gayle Smith appointment to US State Department

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken named Gayle E. Smith as Coordinator for Global COVID Response & Health Security.

G20 must capitalise on the current momentum and step up for Africa’s economic recovery

The ONE Campaign reveals that over $42 billion for Africa is at stake based on decisions global leaders make in the next three months

Leading UK NGOs call on Boris Johnson to go further and faster on global vaccine access

Six of the UK’s leading global health and development NGO’s have written to the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, calling on him to go further and faster with steps to secure global vaccine access.

ONE welcomes IMF Board’s decision to back $650 billion in SDRs

ONE welcomes IMF Board’s decision – “To undertake a general allocation now will help to provide the liquidity urgently needed”

COVID’S LOST LEARNING: OVER HALF OF THE WORLD’S 10-YEAR-OLDS CAN’T READ

Analysis has been released today by the ONE Campaign revealing that over half the world’s 10-year-olds could be unable to read and understand a sentence by the end of this year