Full Coverage: Aid

31.08.2004 Nepali AIDS activists are angry that while millions of dollars are
spent on marketing condoms and other prevention strategies, over 10,000 people a year die for lack of treatment. But they can do little in the face of the donors’ decision to prioritise prevention over care.

31.08.2004 A Japanese grant to Afghanistan will promote the National Emergency Employment Programme for ex-combatants and alternative livelihood programme in poppy producing areas.

27.08.2004 Be a kid for the day and raise lots of lolly to help lick child poverty with ActionAid on Friday 1 October. Find out how to take part.

27.08.2004 World Bank's new strategy for India focusses on infrastructure, human development and rural livelihood and promises to lend up to US$3 billion per year.

26.08.2004 The Togolese parliament has softened the West African country's harsh press laws which previously imposed jail terms of up to five years on journalists found guilty of insulting the government of President Gnassingbe Eyadema, Africa's longest serving head of state.

26.08.2004 The Togolese parliament has softened the country's harsh press laws which previously imposed jail terms of up to five years on journalists found guilty of insulting the government. This is one of the measures aimed to meet EU conditions for resumption of aid.

24.08.2004 World Food Program promises US$74 million aid to Bangladeshis affected by flood, which left more than 600 people dead and 20 million in need of emergency help.

24.08.2004 Completed rail link between India and Nepal and a container terminal at Birgunj is facilitating international food transport to remote areas of Nepal from India.

23.08.2004 The UN has said floods in Bangladesh have caused major devastation and the country needs assistance for rehabilitating health facilities, schools and economy.

20.08.2004 Working towards the Millennium Development Goal on water and sanitation, the Asian Development Bank has agreed a loan of US$ 200 million in support of a UN-HABITAT initiative to develop water and sanitation facilities in six cities of the central Indian state Madhya Pradesh.

20.08.2004 Working towards the Millennium Development Goal on water and sanitation, the Asian Development Bank has loaned US$ 200 million, supporting a UN-HABITAT initiative to develop water and sanitation facilities in six cities of the central Indian state Madhya Pradesh.

19.08.2004 United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has signed an agreement with three Indian organisations, who would be leading the project for improving land and water management in drought-prone areas.

18.08.2004 Over 850 farmers have committed suicide in the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh since May 2004, with daily suicides averaging seven to eight, as government relief efforts prove inadequate.

16.08.2004 This report analyses the effects of foreign assistance to developing nations and says that foreign aid only helps countries having a sound economic policy.

• Author/publisher: World Bank
• Area Focus: Global
• Type: Research Report
• Year Published: Nov 1998

16.08.2004 One of the priorities of new EU development commissioner Louis Michel will be to persuade member states to contribute 0.7 percent of gross national income (GNI) to external aid. Michel plans to discuss development issues with members of the European Parliament and to visit member countries to persuade their governments to increase their aid budgets. Oxfam has welcomed Michel's appointment.

12.08.2004 It is now 20 years since the 1984 Ethiopia famine and Live Aid. Yet Ethiopia remains steeped in poverty. Save the Children - the largest active NGO in Ethiopia - believes it is crucial to ask why so little has changed and to point to possible long-term solutions.

12.08.2004 The southern Indian state of Kerala has asked the central government for financial assistance, amounting to Rs. 310 crores, to improve its poor educational infrastructure.

04.08.2004 As international aid organizations accelerate relief efforts to help millions of people stalked by hunger and disease in flood ravaged Bangladesh, they warn that the country is hovering on the brink of another devastating flood.

04.08.2004 The Mount Meru International Marathon, one of several relationship-building events supported by the U.S.-based Global Partners for Development, attracts amateur and professional runners to Tanzania every year. This yearÂ’s run is scheduled to take place this week.

03.08.2004 In an open letter to The Independent, 16 celebrities including Jude Law, Chris Martin, Bono and Minnie Driver have welcomed Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's commitment to increasing Britain's aid to 0.7% of national income to tackle world poverty. The letter is backed by several of the UK's leading campaigning charities, including Oxfam, Plan UK, Tearfund, UNICEF UK and WaterAid.