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What’s next for aid and development? | SIDA Annual Conference 2025
How we can respond collectively as a sector to the global context of aid budget cuts, growing conflicts, and climate shocks? Catch up on the highlights from our annual conference to learn more.
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No place for hate: a statement from the Diaspora Group for Global Citizenship
Lately, conversations amongst members of the Diaspora Group for Global Citizenship have taken on a new urgency. Members across Scotland have been sharing experiences of racism, harassment, and feeling unsafe or unwelcome in places that should feel like home. This statement lays out some practical ways that you can stand in solidarity with our communities, whatever your role.
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What’s next for aid and development? Reflections on SIDA’s annual conference 2025
Here, we reflect on some of the themes that emerged from three panel sessions held on the day, including a look at power-shifting partnerships, alternative financing models and the root causes of intersecting global crises.
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Global Development on the agenda at SNP Conference
The role Scotland can play as a responsible global citizen was a key part of conversations at the Scottish National Party’s annual Conference in Aberdeen last weekend. SIDA’s Chief Executive, Frances Guy, chaired a key fringe meeting supported by our members Oxfam Scotland and the Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (SCIAF).
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Policy Priorities 2026 – 2031 launched at SIDA Conference
A new document outlining SIDA’s policy priorities for the next Scottish Parliament and Government was launched at our conference on 30th September.
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Shared Stories, Stronger Communities: East and Southeast Asian Heritage in Focus
Member’s Blog: Uuganaa Ramsay, founder of SIDA member Mongol Identity SCIO, sees East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) Heritage Month as being about more than celebrating culture – it is part of an active reclaiming of voice, identity and solidarity.
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Scottish Parliament recognises Palestinian State as SIDA members continue response to crisis in Gaza
The Scottish Parliament has passed a motion recognising the State of Palestine, and calling on the Scottish and UK governments to immediately impose a package of boycotts, divestment and sanctions targeted at the State of Israel and at companies complicit in its military operations and its occupation of Palestine.
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A week of Global Citizenship: Learning, listening & leading for a fairer future
During the final week of Edinburgh’s 2025 festival season, SIDA members and partners were part of a powerful series of events focussed on Global Citizenship Education. It was a week of reflection, dialogue, and most importantly, action.
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Responses to Wellbeing and Sustainable Development (Scotland) Bill
A group of organisations campaigning for a Wellbeing and Sustainable Development law in Scotland have produced guidance for responses to the Social Justice Committee’s Call for Views on a new Members’ Bill in the Scottish Parliament.
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FCDO Publications Confirm Impact of Aid Cuts
New documents published by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office have confirmed the serious impact cuts to the UK Government’s aid budget will have on vulnerable communities around the world.
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