Britain has committed £125 million of aid support to tackle Ebola.
The UK is a leader in using its aid budget to tackle these issues.
Their list of demands is long and ambitious, covering more aid, efforts to tackle tax dodging, land "grabs", and the lack of transparency around investments in developing countries.
Millions of pounds of British aid money to tackle poverty overseas has been invested in builders of gated communities, shopping centres and luxury property in poor countries, the Guardian can reveal.
More than £300,000 ($550,000) of UK aid money to tackle poverty overseas was spent on global citizenship lessons in Scottish schools and it was among millions of pounds of the aid budget that was actually spent in Britain.
Even a €90m ($119m) aid package to tackle regional climate change pledged earlier this year by the European Union has done little to tamp down its fears.The leaders of countries as far afield as Barbados and Grenada joined Tuvalu in raising the alarm over the issue in a series of impassioned speeches to the United Nations General Assembly last month.
But if you think roads, booze and fags are tricky issues for the aid industry to tackle, try obesity – increasingly present among poor communities in poor countries, as a recent visit to South Africa brought home to me, often side by side with malnutrition.
The international aid effort to tackle the Ebola crisis in West Africa has gathered momentum, after much criticism of the initial response.
Most of the rest will go towards humanitarian and refugee aid, programming to tackle gender-based violence and to advancing women's rights, education, healthcare, job creation, infrastructure, and environmental sustainability.
