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Sir Mark Lowcock, chair of the street tree inquiry into the actions of Sheffield City Council, speaking on screen at a council meeting. Picture: Sheffield Council webcast ...
Sheffield Council has agreed to act on all the findings of the Lowcock Report into the street trees scandal and pledged “new, open and democratic ways of working”.
Sir Mark Lowcock has criticised Sheffield Council in an independent report following the felling of thousand of trees and protests on the streets.
In his report, Sir Mark Lowcock said the council and Amey both failed to recognise people's love of trees and that replacing mature ones with saplings was seen as vandalism.
Sir Mark Lowcock [00:05:59] If a human being wants food to eat, that person has two options. Firstly, they can grow the food for themselves and their family and in many poor countries, large ...
A new book by Mark Lowcock, a British economist and former department for international development head who spent four years as the under-secretary-general for Humanitarian Affairs at the United ...
Mark Lowcock, who was the UN undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs until last year, said that Ethiopia had managed to block a declaration of famine in the Tigray region in 2021.
Relief Chief is Mark Lowcock’s behind-the-scenes account of his experience as the world’s most senior humanitarian official—the UN Relief Chief. In his four years on the job, Lowcock coordinated the ...
Sir Mark Lowcock has now finalised terms of reference for the inquiry and revealed them in an online webcast on Thursday morning.
Sir Mark Lowcock, former Under-Secretary General UN OCHA, advances detailed proposals to reform humanitarian finance, including pre-positioning anticipatory finance, to ensure UK aid can better meet ...