The UK’s Global Partnerships Conference was billed as a landmark development conference, where the UK would set out “bold new approaches” to international development following on from the government’s decision to slash the aid budget by 40 per cent.
But as the two-day event reached its conclusion on Wednesday, it risked ending in fresh embarrassment for the government after six leading international NGOs told The Independent that they would not be signing the ‘Global Partnerships Compact’, which the government has described as a “framework” for future partnerships in development.
