advocacy

Yesterday’s announcement by Andrew Mitchell, Secretary of State for International Development, signifies an exciting shift for his department. DFID’s aid reviews have been an opportunity for it to take a step back to comprehensively consider where, when and how effectively its money is spent. In particular, Save the Children welcomes the strong focus on results, impact and only funding high-performing multilateral agencies.

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Here’s our videoblog from the end of the G20 Summit in Seoul. In it we talk about what we achieved here, what still needs to be done, and how Adrian managed to get a conversation that started with his being asked “do you know where the plates are?” to end with him being asked to go on primetime TV.

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Adrian Lovett and I are at the G20 Summit in Seoul – reminding leaders that the economic crisis is a crisis for the poorest children most of all, and urging a global recovery package rooted in investing in children’s potential. Here’s our latest video blog from the summit. Hope you enjoy.

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We go for advocacy workshops. We know the technical details of how to advocate. But are we always practical?

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Last week, I was invited to speak at Chatham House, the London foreign affairs thinktank, looking at the way in which HIV became a global health concern, with attention from the UN, the G8 and donors that has outstripped so many other development topics.

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“Unscrupulous dealers are always trying to get children to consume a white powder that, especially when mixed with unsafe material, can be deadly”, says Save the Children’s Head of Health Simon Wright. He’s talking of course about so-called formula milk, marketed to parents of infants as an alternative for breast milk.

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Teaching children in a languages they don’t use at home is causing big problems with school dropouts, exam failures and pupils not achieving their potential, particularly in rural areas of developing countries. Find out what’s being done to tackle the issue and add your voice to the debate on what should be done to stop language being a barrier to learning for millions of children.

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It wasn’t her time as a health volunteer working in the Manila slums of the 1980s that most shocked Stephanie Sison, but her work as a doctor in the superb private health facilities of the city’s elite.

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What are charities like Save the Children for? This is a question we must always be asking ourselves. Are we there to provide the services that children living in poverty need but do not have? Are we an alternative system to provide healthcare, education and other basic services?

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