The UK’s development strategy and the new economic and geopolitical challenges
In-person attendance fully booked. Online attendance still available.
The UK launched an international development White Paper in November 2023, setting out seven areas for action across a broad range of development themes and policy areas.

The White Paper recognises the increasingly contested world we face, with a more complicated and fractured geopolitical environment. As the UK moves into implementing this vision, it will need to navigate this.

The Minister for Development and Africa, Andrew Mitchell MP, will join us to discuss how to address these challenges as well as seize new opportunities.

The panel will consider how to mobilise additional resources for genuine impact when fiscal and political conditions in the UK and traditional donor partners are unfavourable; how to work with new and emerging donors and balance the imperative for more funds against the UK’s commitment to its values; how to manoeuvre in the context of the wide choices of finance available to recipient countries, often with different terms and conditions; and how to balance a focus on climate mitigation, primarily in middle income countries, with finance to tackle extreme poverty and climate adaptation, primarily in the least developed countries.

To register to watch live online on Crowdcast: www.crowdcast.io/c/uks-development-strategy
Date: 6 March 2024, 17:00 (Wednesday, 8th week, Hilary 2024)
Venue: Lecture Theatre (and online)
Speakers: Andrew Mitchell (Minister of State in the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)), Professor Stefan Dercon (Blavatnik School of Government), Dr Emily Jones (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Prof Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (Department of Politics and International Relations)
Organising department: Oxford Martin School
Organiser: Oxford Martin School (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: events@oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Oxford Martin School Events
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/uks-development-strategy/
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editor: Hannah Mitchell