Responding to the publication of the UK International Development White Paper, Christian Aid’s Chief Executive Patrick Watt said:
“Recent decades have seen remarkable progress in tackling global poverty. But entrenched inequality has slowed that progress and the climate crisis and conflict threaten to throw it into reverse. Eradicating poverty and tackling the climate crisis requires fresh approaches.
“At Christian Aid, drawing on our long experience with local partners, we strongly welcome the intention to invest more in locally-led approaches and to do more to champion the greater representation of low-income countries in global decision-making.
“However, the ambition of Ministers falls far short in far too many areas, most notably on the lack of commitment to legislation to address the global debt crisis.
“Without mobilising more public finance through debt cancellation, through tackling the broken global tax system, and through restoring the aid budget then the good intentions of the White Paper cannot be realised.”
ENDS.
