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Register now for our 2026 Spring Conference | Climate, justice and global challenges: Scotland’s role in a changing world
Join us to explore how the accelerating climate emergency is shaping global justice responses and development practice. With a keynote address, panel discussions and interactive workshops, the event will create space for shared learning, practical reflection and networking, focusing on Scotland’s role and responsibilities in an increasingly complex global context.
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Global partnerships and locally led health systems: discussions at the Cross-Party Group on International Development
The Scottish Parliament’s Cross-Party Group on International Development came together for what is expected to be its last meeting of the current parliamentary session on Wednesday 4 February 2026 to explore global partnerships and locally led approaches to healthcare in the Global South. The meeting brought together speakers joining both in person and online from Continue reading “Home”
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The Long Walk of Freedom for Sudan
This month, human rights and refugee advocates Giel Malual and John Kuei completed a 33-day, 800-mile walk across the UK, from Dungeness Beach in the south of England to Duncansby Head in northern Scotland. In this article, we hear why they chose to take on such a huge challenge, and what it means for us here in Scotland.
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‘On the Frontlines of Hunger’ in Tigray, Ethiopia | Mary’s Meals
SIDA Member Mary’s Meals were special guests at a private event held in the Scottish Parliament this January hosted by Sarah Boyack MSP and Secure Scotland. The event aimed to highlight the disturbing rise in atrocity crimes worldwide, concentrating on the interlinked human rights abuses that are starvation and Conflict Related Sexual Violence, both of which are experienced widely in Tigray, Ethiopia today.
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SIDA welcomes increase in Scottish Government international development funding
SIDA has welcomed proposals in the draft Scottish Budget that “support for Scotland’s International Development Fund and the Humanitarian Emergency Fund will grow to £16 million in 2026-27”. This represents an increase in the international development fund from £12.8million in the current financial year, and is in line with a commitment to reach £15million made by the Scottish Government at the beginning of the current parliamentary session.
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Scotland’s role in a world of crisis: hope amid shrinking aid budgets | Frances Guy, SIDA CEO
As global crises deepen and aid budgets shrink to their lowest in a decade, Scotland’s Humanitarian Emergency Fund is helping deliver life-saving support — from Sudan and Congo to Afghanistan — proving that solidarity still matters. The following piece is a reproduction of an op-ed written by SIDA’s CEO for Frances Guy for The Herald, published on 28th December 2025.
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Looking back on 25 years of SIDA – our history and vision
Some of the best ideas arise when a group of people with shared purpose gather around a coffee table and set to work scribbling on napkins. This isn’t so far from the origin story of SIDA. Formed as NIDOS (the Network for International Development Organisations in Scotland), the seed of SIDA was planted in the year 2000, when with the arrival of devolution, a number of NGOs began to sense a need…
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When dignity blossoms again in Humule | HEF funding delivered by Oxfam in DRC
This members blog is a reproduction of an article from Oxfam Scotland. In June, Oxfam and their partner in eastern DRC received £125,000 from the Scottish Government’s Humanitarian Emergency Fund (HEF) to deliver urgent support to around 3,000 people, offering a vital lifeline to those most in need. This blog, including a series of short videos, summarises the project’s impact.
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Re-thinking localisation | Link Education
SIDA member Link Education share details of their evolving approach to localisation, which aims to build capacity and sovereignty in partner counties in Malawi, Uganda and Ethiopia. Read on to learn how the organisation is demonstrating a commitment to localisation through substantive changes to their organisational structure.
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Scotland at COP30: reflections from the Cross-Party Group on International Development
As world leaders, negotiators and civil society gathered in Belém, Brazil for COP30, the Scottish Parliament’s Cross-Party Group on International Development met to explore the challenges and opportunities this pivotal moment presents for the international community, and the role Scotland can play. The meeting brought together experts joining both in person and live from the COP, sharing their insights on the negotiations and Scotland’s role in advancing climate justice.
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