For the first time ever, Norway’s aid budget exceeds NOK 30 billion. Equitable distribution of resources and opportunities, green energy and gender equality are major priority areas in the proposed development assistance budget for 2013.
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UK aid watchdog gives development department green-amber rating, but NGOs concerned over private sector-led approachIn the financial year 2011-12, DfID awarded 135 contracts to 58 contractors, amounting to £489m, with five contractors winning half of the value of the contracts awarded. The top five contractors winning the most work by value were Adam Smith International (£66.3m), Crown Agents (£62.2m), Voluntary Services Overseas (£54.6m), British Council (£32.4m) and Maxwell Stamp (£26.1m). Delete the scoop?
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What will be the role of ‘traditional’ donors, including long-standing multilaterals and DAC bilaterals, in a changing 'aidscape'? How do these agencies understand their contribution and comparative advantage?
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Watch the videos and listen to Peter Moors explaining his vision of the future belgian aid. Delete the scoop?
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Lessons learned from advisory interventions by the Royal Tropical Institute - "Governance" is an ambiguous term that encompasses complex issues and social phenomena, and is closely linked with constructs such as the State, institutions and government. It is important in every aspect of sustainable development, and vital for effective organisations, whatever their size or purpose. Delete the scoop?
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“Shared Harvests: Agriculture, Trade and Employment”s based on a collaboration between UNCTAD and the ILO, as well as on a technical cooperation project entitled, “Assessing and addressing the effects of trade and employment,” managed jointly by the European Commission and the ILO. The findings from the project show a strong link between poverty reduction, on the one hand, and effective agricultural production and trade, on the other. They also emphasize that farming has a key role to play in the economy when it comes to employment creation. Delete the scoop?
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Une dizaine de chefs d’État et les grandes institutions internationales se rassemblent, mercredi 15 mai, à Bruxelles pour une conférence intitulée "Ensemble pour le renouveau du Mali". Delete the scoop?
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L'ASBL Plan Belgique estime que la Belgique doit consacrer davantage de moyens au soutien de l'enseignement élémentaire dans les pays en développement, a-t-elle souligné au Parlement fédéral, à l'occasion de la conférence "Basic Education for Change" Delete the scoop?
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Stephen Chan: In an extract from a new book, China's aspirational approach to education and investment in Africa is distinguished from the west's focus on basic needs Delete the scoop?
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Newly released Africa Progress Report says some foreign companies are avoiding taxes when they exploit resources. Delete the scoop?
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Africa has the wealth to combat poverty, but it needs help holding on to it.
With Africa’s economies riding the crest of the global commodities wave, there is an unprecedented opportunity to convert the region’s vast resource wealth into investments that could lift millions out of poverty, create jobs, and bring hope to future generations. Seizing that opportunity will require strengthened governance backed by international cooperation to stem the hemorrhage of revenues associated with tax evasion, secret deals and illicit financial transfers. Delete the scoop?
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Most global development projects aim to 'make a difference' but unless that difference can be measured and proven, the phrase can seem like empty words. Impact evaluation is often seen as what makes the difference between rhetoric and evidence-based change. It asks the questions: what would have happened if this project hadn't existed? Can positive change in this community be attributed directly to the project? Delete the scoop?
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The EU is the world’s largest donor of development assistance and on occasion of the Europe Day, 9 May, it may be worthwhile revisiting a key issue of its development cooperation. Experience shows that what donors do with the right hand may sometimes be undone by its left hand. Particular elements of a donors’ policy in areas such as trade may have profound implications, good or bad, on the very countries it assists in tackling poverty. For quite some time the EU development community has been trying to bring policy interests other than development in line with the Lisbon Treaty’s declared (development cooperation) objective of poverty reduction. The aim is to attain greater policy coherence for development (PCD). Delete the scoop?
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Celebrity statistician says data can help challenge common myths about the world, particularly on population, fertility and development. Claire Provost meets him Delete the scoop?
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If GDP is an inaccurate indicator of growth in poor countries, how can we make good decisions about allocating development aid? (If GDP is an inaccurate indicator of growth, how can we make good decisions about allocating development aid? Delete the scoop?
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La Belgique allouera une aide de 31,5 millions d'euros au Mali en 2013 et 2014, a indiqué le cabinet du ministre de la coopération Jean Pascal Labille, en marge de la conférence internationale des donateurs. Delete the scoop?
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Obama Issues Landmark “Open Government” Rules - President Barack Obama has initiated a potential sea change in U.S government accountability, unveiling Thursday an executive order mandating all federal agencies to make openness and public accessibility the default methods for handling official data. Delete the scoop?
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The crucial point is that most political, social and economic systems look like the map. Yet the aid business insists on pursuing a linear model of change, either explicitly, or implicitly because a ‘good’ funding application has a clear set of activities, outputs, outcomes and a MEL system that can attribute any change to the project’s activities – a highly linear approach. Other organizations – say forest fire managers, or the military, seem more able to cope with complexity, although I found out from a woman in one seminar who had served in Afghanistan that the power map was actually drawn up by a consultant, who was promptly sacked after showing the slide to General Petraeus, so maybe the soldiers aren’t so comfortable with complexity after all. Delete the scoop?
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Aangezien dit mijn eerste artikel is op de blog van BTC, geloof ik dat een kleine introductie op zijn plaats is. Ik ben van een generatie die is opgegroeid met de fameuze witte olifanten van Douglas De Coninck, een generatie die nauwelijks weet waar ABOS voor staat, die de BTC-infocyclus volgde tijdens de studententijd, en vooral een generatie die gelooft in een andere en betere ontwikkelingssamenwerking. Zelf ben ik, zoals de meesten, door een samenloop van omstandigheden in de sector terechtgekomen. Door toevallige ontmoetingen, gebeurtenissen, en toch ook door een aantal invloedrijke auteurs zoals William Easterly [1], Amartya Sen [2] enz. Delete the scoop?
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The international aid community seems to have lost sight of some basic principles. They need to be less wedded to New Public Management reforms and must look for a country-led approach The Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness took place in Busan, South Korea, at the end of 2011. This produced a partnership document that outlined four shared principles to help achieve effective development. These were: ownership of development priorities by developing countries; focus on results; inclusive development partnerships; and transparency and accountability to each other Delete the scoop?
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De zesde Staten-Generaal van de Belgische Ontwikkelingssamenwerking stond dit jaar in het teken van de ontwikkeling na 2015. Beleidsmakers, ngo’s en vakbonden ontmoetten elkaar dinsdag in het Brusselse Egmontpaleis. Delete the scoop?
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Agencies must combine forces to overcome the effects of a trio of food crises in the Sahel, the WFP's regional head tells Celeste Hicks
Brown's interest in better co-ordination has been influenced by watching the creation of Nigeriens Feed Nigeriens, or "Trois Ns" (in French, it is Nigeriens Nourissent Nigeriens). Led by the Nigerien president Mahamadou Issoufou, the initiative aims to tackle Niger's chronic food insecurity using homegrown methods. Trois Ns tries to pull together the work of different government departments, from agriculture to animal husbandry, and is aiming to increase food production and deal with the effects of the shortages at the same time. "In some ways, they're playing a similar role to what OCHA [UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs] does at the international level," says Brown. Delete the scoop?
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When you ask people today what makes for a better life, good health, life satisfaction and education still come out on top, according to the Better Life Index choices of the more than 13 000 people who shared with us their own Better Life Index since its launch in May 2011. Delete the scoop?
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Ils se sont levés tôt pour faire entendre leurs voix. Avec pour revendication principale "que l'Etat belge n'abandonne pas ses universités et ses étudiants et avec eux, celles et ceux des pays du Sud". Delete the scoop?
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This Working Paper focuses the debate on the European Union’s new proposed policy approach to middle-income countries – ‘differentiation’ – at the case study level, through analysis of South Africa. Delete the scoop?
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