Monday, February 22, 2016

Charitable Aid: A Valuable Export That Must be Better Supported | RUSI

Charitable Aid: A Valuable Export That Must be Better Supported | RUSI: "Furthermore, individual giving in the UK was estimated to be £10.6 billion in 2014, with nearly 165,000 charities registered in the UK raising a total of £69 billion per annum. According to NCVO, the UK charitable sector contributes £12.1 billion of gross value added to the UK economy each year, comparable to a sector such as agriculture that contributes £8.3 billion. 

Yet whilst on the one hand the government rightly champions the role international development aid from the UK can play, and the charitable sector in the UK represents some of the largest and farthest reaching global aid organisations, on the other it fails to provide the support framework that allows such a valuable UK export from playing as effective a role as it might. This failure not only reduces the humanitarian and development impact this aid might have, but also blunts the security and soft-power impact that the government hopes to achieve."



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