Making Poverty History - International Development
Welcome to my pages dedicated to the work I do on international development work in Parliament.
I was Secretary of the Jubilee 2000 Parliamentary group from 1998-2000. This group then became the Debt Aid & Trade All Party Group and I am still the Secretary.
I regularly contribute to DfID Questions in the House of Commons and work closely with the organisations outlined below on issues they raise and by arranging meetings and encouraging their lobbying of government.
I have visited a number of developing countries to see how effective the programmes of DfID and these partner agencies have been.
I have worked in Ethiopia, China, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria and Uganda for example.
Visit to Uganda with Tearfund - Janaury 2009
In January 2009 I visited SW Uganda with Tearfund to see how their support for Water & Sanitation Projects was being delivered by their local church partner - the Diocese of Kigezi.
A full report will follow.
- Jubilee Debt Campaign
Drop the Debt - Unfinished Business with the Jubilee Debt Campaign. Whilst the Jubilee 2000 campiagn ended and many promises were made to cancel unpayable debt - the work continues.
- Oxfam
Link to Oxfam. I visited Ethiopia with Oxfam in 2002 to see the plight of Coffee farmers and why Fair trade co-operatives were making such a difference to their lives.
- Christian Aid
Link to the Christian Aid website. I work with Christian Aid both nationally and locally.
- The Micah Challenge
Micah Challenge is a global Christian campaign. Their aims are to deepen engagement with impoverished and marginalised communities; and to challenge international leaders, and leaders of rich and poor countries, to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, and so halve absolute global poverty by 2015!