Frustrations grow in UK over FCDO's delayed development strategy

“Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is prompting a fundamental rethink in Government with implications for in terms of foreign policy capability in areas like sanctions; but also in terms of the focus of development strategy, with the Foreign Secretary even calling on the G7 [group of industrial nations] to become an ‘economic NATO,’” wrote Ian Mitchell, a senior policy fellow and co-director of development cooperation in Europe at the Center for Global Development, in an email to Devex.