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Luxembourg allocated 0.97% of its gross national income, or USD 413 million, to official development assistance in 2011.“Luxembourg is the Development Assistance Committee’ s third most generous donor as a portion of its economy – after Sweden and Norway – and it has a high quality programme” says Brian Atwood, Chair of the DAC. “We commend Luxembourg’s commitment to keeping its ODA at 1% of GNI until 2014”.
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A new scientific report commissioned by the World Bank explores the likely impacts of present day, 2°C and 4°C warming on agricultural production, water resources, coastal ecosystems and cities across Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and South East Asia. It describes the risks to agriculture and livelihood security in Sub-Saharan Africa; the rise in sea-level, loss of coral reefs and devastation to coastal areas likely in South East Asia; and the fluctuating water resources in South Asia. Turn Down the Heat warns that poor communities will be the most vulnerable to climate change. Delete the scoop?
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Ce compromis devrait permettre le retour de l'armée dans la ville de Kidal et la tenue de l'élection présidentielle le 28 juillet. Delete the scoop?
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En 1992, à l’occasion d’un séminaire sur la maîtrise d’ouvrage organisé à Cotonou par la coopération française au profit des divers acteurs de projets de la sous-région, un expert foncier, un peu provocateur, nous annonçât que la maîtrise d’ouvrage se résumait en fait à 4 principes. Un maître d'ouvrage peut en effet faire soi-même, faire-faire par d'autres, laisser-faire les choses, et même éventuellement décider de ne-pas-faire... Certains étaient profondément choqués par ce résumé provocateur, mais quand on analyse les diverses approches de cette maîtrise d’ouvrage, on est bien dans cette situation. Delete the scoop?
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Economic growth rates in many African countries that outstrip other parts of the world, but do those figures reflect an improving quality of life? It is a story that is being told with increasing frequency. Against the backdrop of a prolonged slump that has brought financial paralysis to much of the Western world, experts have identified Africa as having many of the world's fastest-growing economies. Delete the scoop?
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What is the best way for organisations to build capacity for transparency? Avoid the one-off workshop and build sustainable practices, says Claire Schouten Delete the scoop?
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Paul Collier: by putting their own house in order on taxation and transparency the G8 countries can deliver change Although the G8 has often been used for gestures, it affords a rare opportunity for common action by the governments of major countries. Manifestly, there have been serious deficiencies in global economic governance. By addressing them, the G8 can help not only ourselves, but the people struggling in the world's poorest countries. This has been Britain's agenda as host of this year's G8. Delete the scoop?
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Programme effectiveness undermined by financial management mechanisms, reports Independent Commission for Aid ImpactIcai defines a theory of change as "[a] model which sets out how a planned intervention will work and have the intended impact. The assessment of a programme will typically look at this rationale and undertake work to understand what happened and why, so as to test whether the theory of change underlying the aid project has proved to be valid". Delete the scoop?
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How is public money spent? Why are ordinary citizens often unable to access information that has a fundamental bearing on their lives? Across the world, human rights groups, NGOs and campaigners are battling to hold the powerful to account. As politicians prepare to discuss transparency at next week's G8, we ask 12 people on the frontline of this struggle to explain what they are fighting for and why it matters Delete the scoop?
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La Belgique et le Rwanda ont signé mercredi à Kigali trois conventions d'un montant total de quinze millions d'euros concrétisant l'aide que la coopération belge apporte à Kigali dans des domaines ciblés, comme la santé, la décentralisation et l'énergie. Delete the scoop?
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Global agricultural production is expected to grow 1.5% a year on average over the coming decade, compared with annual growth of 2.1% between 2003 and 2012, according to a new report published by the OECD and FAO today.
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In 2012 beleefde het budget ontwikkelingssamenwerking de grootste snoei in jaren: in totaal werd 420 miljoen euro geschrapt. Ondanks de groter wordende noden in ontwikkelingslanden als gevolg van globalisering, stijgende voedselprijzen en de klimaatsverandering. In haar rapport duidt 11.11.11 de besparingen en onderzocht ook het waarom. De Belgische ontwikkelingssamenwerking, zo blijkt, creëerde zelf verschillende flessenhalzen, waardoor er op het eind van het jaar bestedingsdruk ontstaat maar ook mogelijkheid tot besparen. 11.11.11 wil af van dit 'kwetsbaar' budget en stelt een overbruggingsfonds én een dringende aanpak van de knelpunten voor. Delete the scoop?
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In the past 20 years, we've seen the disruption of the record, photo, newspaper, and other industries. Though music, photos, and news continue to play a big role in people’s lives, the old ‘owners’ of the space were disrupted by changes in technology and new expectations from consumers. Similar changes are happening in the international civil space, and organizations working there need to think more systematically about what these changes mean. Delete the scoop?
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Les propos sont de l‘ambassadeur de Belgique au Burundi, à l’occasion de l’inauguration du nouveau bâtiment du Tribunal de Grande Instance de Bubanza, ce vendredi 7 juin. L’inauguration au chef-lieu de Bubanza du premier bâtiment à étage depuis l’indépendance devant abriter les services du ministère de la Justice aura été une belle occasion pour l’ambassadeur de Belgique de s’adresser à la magistrature burundaise. Delete the scoop?
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HOLDING AID AGENCIES TO ACCOUNT IMPROVES VALUE FOR MONEY Opportunities for local people to hold NGO’s to account for their actions have improved in recent years, but there has been little evidence to suggest that they can actually influence the quality and results of aid itself - until now. Delete the scoop?
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Open data helps to establish accountability, but more resources are needed to push the transparency agenda The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is a relative newcomer in the development sector. It was launched in 2004 under the Bush presidency. But the agency has used its late comer advantage wisely. It has benefited from the lessons learnt from 50 years of trial and error in the field of development, and identified transparency as a key area where there is capacity to do better.
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By putting their own house in order on taxation and transparency the G8 countries can deliver change. Although the G8 has often been used for gestures, it affords a rare opportunity for common action by the governments of major countries. Manifestly, there have been serious deficiencies in global economic governance. By addressing them, the G8 can help not only ourselves, but the people struggling in the world's poorest countries. Delete the scoop?
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“To opt out of Palestine the way this government is considering doing is the wrong way to prioritise,” the Social Democrats' spokesman on development aid, Kenneth Forslund, told Swedish Radio. Delete the scoop?
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AFRICAN economies are rising steadily, but in the Democratic Republic of Congo life for many is as bad as ever. Armed men rape and plunder with impunity. Rebel groups terrorise vast stretches of land rich in minerals and agricultural potential. Millions have died as a result. And for years the outside world has done little more than shrug. Its main effort—a 14-year-old UN peacekeeping mission—has failed to end “Africa’s world war”, which started as an ethnic conflict sparked by the genocide next door in Rwanda before descending into murderous anarchy farther afield. Delete the scoop?
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The majority of the world’s poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary threshold in per capita income but it does matter to traditional OECD donors because not only are those thresholds used in numerous and various ways, the crossing of that arbitrary line is viewed as cause enough for some donors to at least consider ending aid. Delete the scoop?
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Au-delà des chiffres, tous les interlocuteurs du ministre, sans exception, se sont félicités de la qualité de l’aide belge. Jeudi matin, faisant visiter un centre de santé, un marché regorgeant de fruits et légumes rutilants, une « école aux champs » où les paysans, ont acquis la maîtrise de leur production bananière, le gouverneur de la province du Nord n’a pas mesuré ses éloges à l’égard de ses partenaires. Des partenaires… C’est précisément de cela qu’il fut longuement question avec le président Kagame qui reprit devant son hôte l’un des leit motifs de ses discours : les Africains, sous le couvert de l’aide, n’ont reçu que trop de leçons et ils doivent désormais être traités sur une base d’égalité. Delete the scoop?
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"The relationship between Belgium and Rwanda has been that of a married couple where sometimes they are happy and other time not. We should look forward and focus on building a stable relationship and leave the past behind," Labille said. He added: "I am looking forward to a strong relationship that would benefit both countries. We want to see stable peace and security and as well as socio-economic development in the region. Working together we shall achieve our objectives." Delete the scoop?
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There’s a question that’s been troubling journalist Sonia Shah since she was a child: What is malaria, and why is it killing so many people? This morning during the session “Listening to Nature,” journalist Shah looks at the complexities making it so hard for humanity to rid itself of this killer disease, which kills hundreds of thousands of people every day and has other pernicious effects on societies and economies. Delete the scoop?
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Mo Ibrahim est le président de la Mo Ibrahim Foundation, qui évalue chaque année les pays du continent africain et publie un "indice de bonne gouvernance". Delete the scoop?
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Petite esquisse des zones que le Global Peace Index considérait comme étant les plus dangereuses en 2012. Delete the scoop?
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Olivier De Schutter: The leaders of the G8 must acknowledge the vital financial and symbolic role that tax justice has to play in tackling hunger Delete the scoop?
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