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Making Aid More Effective by 2010

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The immediate objectives of the Fast Track Initiative (FTI) survey are (a) to track progress toward implementing the Paris Declaration in the education sector and (b) to facilitate dialogue at the country and international levels on taking action to make progress on ownership, alignment, harmonization, managing for results, and mutual accountability. This FTI report also measures the progress 10 countries have made toward increasing aid effectiveness.

Added by Zunia to Aid Effectiveness on February 14, 2010

The Financial Crisis, a Development Emergency, and the Need for Aid

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'Affected by the financial crisis, the world’s poorest countries are facing a development emergency. Cutbacks in foreign aid and devalued currencies are wiping out aid contributions that supply the world’s poor with basic necessities - food, education, and healthcare. Billions of aid dollars are sitting in Washington, ready for disbursement but hindered by bureaucracy. Homi Kharas outlines steps to accelerate the disbursement of this aid so that poor countries can receive the help they more...

Added by Zunia to Aid Effectiveness on April 29, 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

Social Protection: Opportunities for Africa

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Social protection programs can play a critical role in sustainably reducing poverty and hunger throughout Africa. This brief from IFPRI, an international food policy research organization, surveys the potential forms, benefits, and challenges of expanded African social protection programs. The issues discussed include the different goals these programs might have; the effectiveness of different programs in particular contexts; and answers to common criticisms of social protection measures.

Added by John Whitehead to Aid Effectiveness on December 19, 2008

Ideas4Development - Cash on delivery aid: changing the incentive mix

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Debate with Jean-Michel Severino, General Director of the AFD and Nancy Birdsall, President of the CGDev about 'Cash on delivery aid', a new tool promoted by the CGDev : «[...] it is conceptually close to ‘output-based aid’, except that governments rather than non-governmental actors are in charge of delivering the output, and that aid comes as a form of reward upon delivery rather than a direct payment of the costs incurred. The novel philosophy in this approach is that donors are as more...

Added by Blog Ideas4development to Aid Effectiveness on December 04, 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

EDUCATION THAT PAYS FOR ITSELF 2008

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EDUCATION THAT PAYS FOR ITSELF 2008 - 2nd International Conference on Financially Sustainable Education Education That Pays For Itself 2008 will bring together some of the world's leading practitioners in financially sustainable education, along with educators, policymakers, business people, philanthropists, social entrepreneurs and NGOs from around the world, in a hands-on forum for learning, networking, inspiration and action. Share and discover innovative models tackling key challenges more...

Added by Nik Kafka to Aid Effectiveness on August 28, 2008

'Idol Gives Back'. Preschools Open in Mozambique

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As July 4th festivities and summer vacations began in the United States, thousands of children, ages 3 to 5, started preschool in five districts of the southern province of Gaza in Mozambique, thanks to American Idol viewers. The global humanitarian organization Save the Children announced that 96 preschools in 42 communities, funded through a grant from the Charity Projects Entertainment Fund (CPEF) from donations raised through Idol Gives Back 2007, opened in May and June. Many of the more...

Added by Anuradha Bhattacharjee to Aid Effectiveness on August 10, 2008

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