Full Coverage: Aid

30.09.2005 African states need to harness their collective power to bargain better deals on debt, aid, and trade reform, says Africa Action's Salih Booker.

28.09.2005 Ten years ago in Cairo, 179 nations agreed on a plan to achieve universal access to basic reproductive health care by 2015--and on the financial resources needed to make it a reality. While some progress has been made of late, donor countries have by and large not come through with the funding they promised, according to the most recent report card produced by Population Action International.

26.09.2005 Harmful strings attached to debt relief must be cut and relief widened to at least 40 more countries, a prominent aid group said today in response to IMF/World Bank decisions on debt and conditionality.

26.09.2005 Don't spin your record on world poverty during the party conference, Labour leaders were told today, because the Government's achievements on global anti-poverty initiatives are vastly over-stated and many polices continue to harm the poorest countries.

24.09.2005 Britain's controversial new guidelines for providing aid to developing countries are causing widespread confusion around the world, with the government's own officials saying they have "fundamental concerns" about the way the policy is operating.

23.09.2005 This update offers the most recent information available on developments in funding for population assistance programs and grades each of 21 major donor countries accordingly. The new data illustrates that donor countries continue to fall far short of the commitments outlined at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and reaffirmed in 2004. Though population assistance has most recently trended upward, when adjusted for inflation those resources are at least 40 percent short of what is required from donors to achieve universal access to basic reproductive health care by 2015.

22.09.2005 Aid agencies are to resume one of NepalÂ’s most successful poverty-alleviation projects, which was suspended in May in protest against assaults on female staff by Maoist rebels.

22.09.2005 inadequate rainfall and a poor harvest mean that 34 per cent of Malawians - including 1 million children and pregnant women - will be unable to get enough to eat until the next harvest in March 2006.

22.09.2005 President Bush's U.N. speech shows he sees some benefit in working with other nations when it comes to fighting terrorism, seeking trade agreements, or preventing the spread of disease, says the U.N. Foundation's Johanna Mendelson Forman, but it's too early to say if this marks a turning point for the hitherto unilateralist Bush administration.

21.09.2005 The Zimbabwean government has finally admitted that the country will run out of food by the end of this month. President Mugabe still refuses to make an urgent appeal to the international community, but it's probably too late to avert a human tragedy on a scale with Darfur anyway, says Zimbabwean writer Wilf Mbanga.

19.09.2005 A nutritional assessment conducted by Action Against Hunger in southern Sudan has found malnutrition "at or above the rates currently observed in Niger." The group is imploring the international community to focus resources on the nutritional crisis, which it says is being overlooked amidst the improving political situation.

19.09.2005 The Bush administration's decision to withhold funding to the United Nations Population Fund for the fourth consecutive year was condemned by Population Action International, who said the move puts domestic politics over global womens' health needs.

19.09.2005 While development aid is often vital for combating poverty, is it really being invested in local communities to change the circumstances of the poor? OneWorld concludes this month's "IN-DEPTH" series from its new treeless magazine, Perspectives, which offers more background and context on the issue, viewpoints from non-profit organizations, and ways for individuals to get involved.

19.09.2005 After almost three months, the hijackers of a World Food Program (WFP) ship carrying food aid off the coast of Somalia pledged to release the cargo after reaching agreement that the 850 tons of rice meant for tsunami survivors be distributed in the "neglected" central region.

19.09.2005 The World Bank and IMF will meet September 24-25 to discuss whether to approve or reject the G8 debt deal. Urge their executive directors to finalize the deal that would bring debt relief to the some of the world's poorest countries, says Africa Action.

19.09.2005 Work by top British artists including Tracey Emin, Gavin Turk and Keith Coventry raised £23,800 for international development agency Christian Aid when it was auctioned by Sotheby’s at the Fine Art Society.

17.09.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Sep 16 (OneWorld) - This week's U.N. summit of world leaders was to have renewed the world body and lift hopes for a fairer and safer planet. But advocacy groups and Secretary-General Kofi Annan alike decried the outcome as far short of action needed to rein in poverty, disease, and weapons of mass destruction.

15.09.2005 The newly-established United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF) got a big boost from two of the world's largest democracies when United States President George W. Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh co-sponsored a fund-raising event on the margins of the World Summit.

15.09.2005 A well known Austrian Company "Bayer" donated two hundred and eight thousand EUR to SOS Children's Village in Prishtina, intended as assistance for abandoned children there. Representatives of this company made a promise at this ocassion that they will continue to provide support in the future, contributing to projects that help abandoned children have opportune lives.

14.09.2005 Efforts to end extreme poverty worldwide by the year 2015 have so far been successful in some regions and less so in others. Global policies on aid, trade, and debt will play key roles in determining success over the next ten years. OneWorld presents the second installment in a three-part "IN-DEPTH" series from its new treeless magazine, Perspectives, which offers more background and context on the issue, viewpoints from non-profit organizations, and ways for individuals to get involved.