The UK Government recently announced further cuts to the UK International Development budget to 0.3% of Gross National Income (GNI). These funding cuts are directly affecting VSO's – and other NGOs - programmes and ability to deliver on our mission. Will you act today?

Working in fragile contexts requires a careful and sensitive approach to ensure that existing tensions are not inflamed. Over the last year, as part of this work, we have responded directly to nine emergencies in places like Ethiopia, Sierra Leone and the Philippines

While all countries have signed up to achieving the SDGs, they are not legally binding, and so when member states made commitments towards them in 2015, it was decided a space was needed for monitoring and accountability towards their progress.

The ‘Leave No One Behind’ consortium, is a coalition of twelve NGOs working on gathering data on progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and to incorporate SDGs into national policies in five countries.

In 2019, the Ethiopian Ministry of Women, Youth and Children set out to develop a ten-year sector blueprint for a new national development plan for Ethiopia, to run from 2021-30. VSO's involvement ensured that the voices and perspectives of the most marginalised were able to feed into Ethiopia’s future development plans.

The UK Government aims to reach 2.5 million people across 18 low-income countries through new VSO partnership

Three years on, the people of Mozambique continue to face challenges as a result of Cyclone Idai. Read how VSO volunteers are are playing a critical role in building back better.

We've worked in India for over 30 years, strengthening inclusive education systems and supporting people to develop sustainable and resilient livelihoods.

Learn how in spite of the challenges of travel during the COVID-19 pandemic and the increased difficulty of working in communities, VSO volunteers have continued to support the most vulnerable throughout this crisis.

VSO runs a vast range of projects spanning our three global programmes; resilient livelihoods, inclusive education and healthy communities.