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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Halima Begum

The dinosaurs of international aid must adapt or die – their expensive era is over

A girl in a patterned dress sits beside a metal barrel and burnt tree in a dusty camp
A Sudanese refugee girl fleeing from conflict rests next to a burnt tree in the middle of the Tine transit camp in Chad. Photograph: Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters

As the UK government-sponsored Global Partnerships conference convened in London this week, against a backdrop of high living costs, reduced aid budgets and oil tankers stranded in the strait of Hormuz, it is increasingly clear that the aid sector is nearing breaking point.

The international charity network that props up the broken aid system is both under strain and part of the problem – unable to adapt to the times and increasingly unfit for purpose.

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