Early Closing

Major UK-funded climate project in Bangladesh to close over aid cuts

A UK-funded climate project in Bangladesh is being forced to close two years early after foreign aid cuts, leaving thousands of vulnerable people without support and threatening to undo work that has already been carried out, The Independent has learnt...

Practical Action was supposed to have received £2.2m by 2026, but ended up receiving “far less than this”, says Rahma. The project was supposed to reach 57,000 people by the end of this year, but will in the end only reach 37,000 people.

“This abrupt cut has threatened our reputation in the community, which we have carefully built up over the past two and a half years,” Rahma says. “It has also impacted the long-term stability of the interventions that we have made, and limited our ability to plan for an effective exit.”


Not that we are supposed to make sense of emotional string-pullers like this, but how do we make sense of -

“It has also impacted the long-term stability of the interventions that we have made, and limited our ability to plan for an effective exit.”

The reference to "long-term stability" does suggest that there was no great appetite for "an effective exit" or any exit at all as long as the money kept coming it. Long-term stability of the funding perhaps.