David Lammy, the United Kingdom’s foreign secretary, has once again spoken of the need for aid reform, saying that African leaders are fed up with “ping-pong” funding that begins under one government and is canceled under the next.
Lammy first proposed in March that the U.K. should host a conference on development reform to bring together key players in the global north. At a meeting of the International Development Committee of the U.K. Parliament earlier this week, he reiterated those calls.
“It was always going to be the case that development needed reform,” he said. “That is not just reform here in the United Kingdom, but reform across the family of nations that we largely describe as the West. And clearly, the U.N. system requires reform.
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