Submitted on Tuesday 16th June 2020
Rejected on Tuesday 21st July 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Stop the DFID-FCO merger.
Retain the Department for International Development as an independent body accountable for improving the lives of the world's most vulnerable communities, not for promoting British economic and political interests.
The merger will worsen life-saving services by making the aid budget subject to the political interests of the Foreign Secretary, meaning key decisions will be in the hands of those with no expertise in global health and poverty. The economic interests of one of the world's richest countries should not come above the lives of those in the world's poorest. DFID performs better in independent reviews of transparency and aid impact than the FCO, and the merger risks more lives lost.
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