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TESSA project wins WISE 2011 award
The Open University-led Teacher Education in Sub Saharan Africa (TESSA) project created a range of open educational resources which are available free, in four languages, to support school-based teacher education and classroom activities in African primary schools.
The hidden crisis: Armed conflict and education
Global monitoring report
The 2011 Education for All Global Monitoring Report warns that armed conflict is robbing 28 million children of an education by exposing them to widespread sexual violence, targeted attacks on schools and other abuses.
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World must address failure in Somalia
Britain will provide new support for health services, which will benefit over 100,000 women and children, and for weapons management that will see more weapons taken off the streets
UK and partners unite to combat tropical diseases
Private and public partners unite to combat 10 neglected tropical diseases by 2020
PM and Afghan President sign Strategic Partnership
Prime Minister David Cameron and Afghan President Hamid Karzai met at Chequers, where they signed an Enduring Strategic Partnership between the UK and Afghanistan.
Private investment to help tackle climate change
Britain will spearhead a new drive to bring major private investment to tackle the global threat of climate change
Minister answers pupils' questions on safer countries
School presented with International Award by Minister for International Development, Alan Duncan
Innovative funding scheme delivers lifesaving vaccines
Private donations – to be doubled by the UK Government – will help immunise millions more children around the world
Emergency aid to tackle looming food crisis in Sahel
Britain will send lifesaving emergency aid to help thousands of families facing severe food shortages caused by drought in the Sahel region of West Africa.
UK to protect 140 million people from tropical diseases
UK aid will help global effort to rid the world of infectious tropical diseases
New support for Nepal's Gurkha communities
UK aid will provide sanitation and clean water through the Gurkha Welfare Scheme for ex-servicemen and their families
Horn of Africa food crisis - latest updates
Lifesaving UK government help for more than a million people in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia
Climate deal helps more countries go green
The breakthroughs made at Durban will help poor countries tackle climate change and take a greener path to development
'Fast Start' helps countries cope with climate change
A new series of Fast Start projects will help those hit first and hit hardest by the impacts of climate change
Young volunteers make a difference
Today, on International Volunteer Day, we recognise the achievements of our young International Citizen Service (ICS) volunteers.
UK hails new aid partnership with emerging powers
Britain welcomed a new agreement with China and others to improve the impact of aid at this week's aid forum in Korea
Leaders call for results and transparency at aid forum
Development ministers from seven countries highlight their priorities for this week's aid effectiveness forum in Korea
New contraception drive will save women's lives
The UK will help save thousands of lives and avert nearly 220,000 unsafe abortions by providing much needed contraceptive supplies
DFID's Scotland office celebrates 30 years
Department for International Development's second headquarters in Scotland is celebrating 30 years today
UK aid watchdog publishes first reports
The newly-established Independent Commission for Aid Impact – known as ICAI – has today published its first four reports on the impact of British aid
UK aid doubles public generosity in charity appeals
Two newspapers launch their Christmas appeals today, helping some of the poorest people in the world to change their lives
World Pneumonia Day: UK brings lifesaving vaccine to Malawi
UK aid is supporting the roll out of a vaccine that helps prevent pneumonia – the leading killer of children under five
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