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Training vs. Providing capital inputs - Evaluating best practice in delivering the liveliood component of the Guardian's Katine Project in Uganda.

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The Guardian Newspaper and its NGO partner Amref have embarked on the mid-term evaluation of the Katine Project in northeastern Uganda. The project is a 3 year rural development initiative (often compared to the Millennium Development Projects) that focuses on interventions in Health, Education, Water & Sanitation, Livelihoods and Governance. Before the official evaluation report is published, this article questions our performance thus far in delivering the objectives of the livelihoods more...

Added by Eliza Anyangwe to Aid Effectiveness on July 01, 2009

Setting Priorities for Public Spending for Agricultural and Rural Development in Africa

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Agriculture and rural development must play a central role in stimulating economic growth, reducing poverty, and improving food and nutrition security in Africa. Precisely how Sub-Saharan African countries should allocate public spending on agricultural and rural development is often unclear, however. This brief from IFPRI, an international food policy research organization, draws on case studies from both Africa and Asia in order to shed light on the contributions different types of spending more...

Added by John Whitehead to Aid Effectiveness on April 17, 2009

Knowledge and Innovation for Agricultural Development

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Improving the livelihoods of the rural poor requires combining indigenous knowledge and local innovation with formal agricultural research and development and support from governments and other institutions. This brief from IFPRI, an international food policy research organization, outlines how formal and informal knowledge and innovation can be linked to accelerate sustainable agricultural development. The brief identifies such necessary steps as scaling up investments in agricultural science, more...

Added by John Whitehead to Aid Effectiveness on April 16, 2009

Implementing Physical and Virtual Food Reserves to Protect the Poor and Prevent Market Failure

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The infusion of financial resources into food commodity futures markets contributed significantly to the recent food price spike. Preventing or mitigating another such spike will require changes in international financial and agricultural markets. To this end, this brief from IFPRI, an international food policy research organization, proposes two key global collective actions: i) establishing a small physical food reserve in order to respond to food emergencies, and ii) setting up an innovative more...

Added by John Whitehead to Aid Effectiveness on February 26, 2009

2009 Annual Letter from Bill Gates

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In this first annual letter, Bill Gates talks about the work of the Gates Foundation 'and speaks candidly about what has gone well, what hasn’t, and what we are learning along with our partners.' The pages of the letter are: 1. Introduction 2: Childhood Deaths 3: Agriculture 4: U.S. Education 5: Progress on Polio 6: Progress on AIDS 7: Progress on Malaria 8: The Role of Foundations 9: The Economic Crisis 10: In Closing The letter produced in February 2009 provides a short, easy to more...

Added by John Daly to Aid Effectiveness on February 04, 2009

Rising Food Prices: What Should Be Done?

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The dramatic rise in food prices during the past two years threatens millions in the developing world who are net food buyers. Price controls or bans on exports are inadequate and possibly even counter-productive remedies to the situation. This brief from IFPRI, an international food policy research organization, analyzes the reasons for the rising prices and proposes effective short- and long-term responses. These include expanding social protection programs in developing countries, boosting more...

Added by John Whitehead to Aid Effectiveness on January 23, 2009

Investing in Agriculture to Overcome the World Food Crisis and Reduce Poverty and Hunger

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For much of the developing world, increased agricultural growth is necessary to counter the current global food crisis, promote overall economic growth, and make progress toward the First Millennium Development Goal. Improved agricultural growth, in turn, requires increased government spending. This brief from IFPRI, an international food policy research organization, proposes how much should be spent, and in which sectors, in order to yield the needed agricultural growth increase.

Added by John Whitehead to Aid Effectiveness on January 12, 2009

Call for Nominations, 'Millions Fed: Proven Successes in Agricultural Development'

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The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) is currently inviting nominations of interventions that have had a significant impact on food security in a new project, Millions Fed: Proven Successes in Agricultural Development. With support from The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, IFPRI is leading the Millions Fed project to document evidence on what works in agriculture—what sorts of policies, programs, and investments in agricultural development have substantially reduced hunger more...

Added by Veronica O'Connor to Aid Effectiveness on November 25, 2008

'Anti-poverty summit raises 16 billion dollars: UN chief'

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UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Thursday: 'We have full commitment from many countries in pledges to help the world's poor, around the 16 billion dollars mark.' The announcement was made at the close of the day-long summit called to review implementation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The exact total from pledges from world leaders, the private sector and civil society still had be tallied, and it should be noted that in the past not all such pledges had been fulfilled. Major more...

Added by John Daly to Aid Effectiveness on September 26, 2008

World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development

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This is the flagship annual report from the World Bank. Summary: 'World Development Report 2008 calls for greater investment in agriculture in developing countries.The report warns that the sector must be placed at the center of the development agenda if the goals of halving extreme poverty and hunger by 2015 are to be realized. * While 75 percent of the world’s poor live in rural areas in developing countries, a mere 4 percent of official development assistance goes to agriculture. more...

Added by John Daly to Aid Effectiveness on August 31, 2008

FAO seeks US$33.5 million to help small farmers and fishers restore livelihoods

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Currently, 75 percent of farmers in the country's main food-producing region lack sufficient seed, with little time left before the end of the planting season in August. FAO is appealing for US$33.5 million to help cyclone-affected households restore their livelihoods and resume food production during this crucial period. Overall needs for relief and recovery activities in farming, fisheries, aquaculture and forestry over the next 12 months total US$51 million under the revised appeal for more...

Added by Zunia to Aid Effectiveness on August 04, 2008

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