Patrick Watt
@WattPatrick
CEO @christian_aid. Campaigner for social and environmental justice. Views are my own
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http://christianaid.org.uk 14-02-2012 17:00:15
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Thanks to Waseem Ahmad and friends at Islamic Relief Worldwide for a day of stimulating and varied engagement on #FaithAndDevelopment with inputs from civil society, donors, and academia, and Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP. Im looking forward to continuing the conversation in the coming months
Excellent opening panel at #FaithAndDevelopment conference in London, moderated by Sara Pantuliano, on reaching a common understanding about the interface between religion and efforts to end poverty Christian Aid Islamic Relief Worldwide
If the Swedish govt was serious about expanding direct $ opportunities to global South organisations (which it should be), you would expect it to have consulted the 1,750 civil society organisations in 90 countries that currently get Sida money. It didn't thelancet.com/journals/lanceโฆ
Excited to be joining civil society allies from around the world in Nairobi to take forward #PledgeforChange2030 and bring about a sea change in partnership, shifting power and resources to local organisations
Imagine for a moment that - instead of flogging this dead horse of a story - the media actually spent some time covering the industrial scale tax abuse that costs poorer countries over $200bn a year (the IMF's numbers) mol.im/a/13305277 via Daily Mail Online
It's been great to see major uptake of the Act on Poverty resource - jointly developed with The Trussell Trust, ChurchActionPoverty, SVP, and churches - which is designed to support engagement with candidates in this general election year. Please share ๐ christianaid.org.uk/get-involved/cโฆ
I'm looking forward to working closely with BishopSarah in her newly announced role as the next chair of Christian Aid - she will bring great experience, wisdom, and commitment, and has a track record of working for justice, and against poverty
Kudos to Emma Revie for saying what charities focused on poverty say too rarely - that the need for our work is a symptom of a collective failure to build a fair society. If we're not seeking to dismantle ourselves, we're not serious about lasting change thirdsector.co.uk/trussell-trustโฆ
Good to join a packed room at St Martin in the fields for the launch of Norwegian Refugee Council's UK office. And good also to hear Jan Egeland reflect on the role played by UK NGOs in global humanitarian efforts, at a time of huge challenge
It was a pleasure to meet earlier today with Florence Eshalomi MP - Christian Aid's local MP and a champion of our issues - to discuss our work with supporters in Britain, and our campaigning on debt and peacebuilding ๐
Congratulations to C4 News for covering a story last night that doesn't get told often enough - of the uncounted victims of the #ClimateCrisis in countries that contributed almost nothing to the problem #Malawi #LossAndDamage channel4.com/news/climate-iโฆ via Victoria Macdonald
This #WorldBookDay remember the 1 million+ Afghan secondary-age girls who today and every day are denied their right to education, and with it the change to read, to learn, to dream, to grow aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/23โฆ