Full Coverage: Aid

25.06.2004 FARM-Africa has criticised the Department for International Development for promoting direct budget support to Africa governments with limited capacity. This makes it difficult for agriculture to receive the resources needed to stimulate growth and reduce poverty, says the agricultural development NGO, which calls for specific targeting of funds to agriculture to deliver pro-poor growth.

21.06.2004 As World Refugee Day is marked for the fourth time, Amnesty International calls on the international community to translate its concern about the destruction and devastation in Darfur into concrete actions by ensuring that protection and pledges of material and financial support for the displaced population becomes a reality.

17.06.2004 The World Bank has approved a US$60 million grant to bolster the countryÂ’s existing preventive care services at the district, provincial and central levels.

16.06.2004 UNÂ’s humanitarian efforts, aimed at about 50 million victims of crises the world over, are being hampered by a shortfall of funds.

15.06.2004 With scores of key health programs in Bangladesh stymied by corruption, mismanagement and political interference, the government has taken a major decision to outsource projects involving US $200 million to nongovernmental organizations(NGOs) in the country.

15.06.2004 With scores of key health programs in Bangladesh stymied by corruption, mismanagement and political interference, the government has taken a major decision to outsource projects involving US $200 million to nongovernmental organizations(NGOs) in the country.

11.06.2004 An Indian NGO promoting the use of ICTs for development requires volunteers to further its mission.

08.06.2004 International human rights groups are calling on the leaders of the Group of Eight (G-8) leading industrialized nations to urgently send more troops to Afghanistan to better secure the country in advance of nationwide elections scheduled for September.

04.06.2004 International environmental and development groups have denounced as completely inadequate a new World Bank commitment to increase its lending to renewable energy projects in developing countries by 20 percent annually over the next five years.

03.06.2004 For the war-ravaged people of Darfur in Western Sudan, the coming of the rains at the start of June will be both a relief and a curse. A relief, because water supplies in this arid region will be replenished. A curse, because for many it will mean vital supplies of food and other humanitarian assistance will no longer be able to reach them by land.

01.06.2004 Book Aid International works in 30 of the world's poorest countries, providing over half a million books and journals each year to libraries, hospitals, refugee camps and schools. Find out more about they do.