As the global development community has witnessed over the years, hashtags help raise funding for important global causes, coordinate disaster response and bring attention to forgotten or oft-neglected crises.
There are around 200 billion tweets a year, but in 2016, the aid community followed — and used — several specific hashtags to discuss global topics with the potential to impact the way development is done.
Uncertainties abound after the majority of the British public voted to leave the European Union in June 2016. In the U.K. aid community, questions have centered on potential funding losses, program cuts, and the direction of U.K. aid in general given changes in British leadership following the EU referendum.
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Jenny Lei Ravelo@JennyLeiRavelo
Jenny Lei Ravelo is a Devex Senior Reporter based in Manila. She covers global health, with a particular focus on the World Health Organization, and other development and humanitarian aid trends in Asia Pacific. Prior to Devex, she wrote for ABS-CBN, one of the largest broadcasting networks in the Philippines, and was a copy editor for various international scientific journals. She received her journalism degree from the University of Santo Tomas.
