Full Coverage: Aid

28.02.2006 Any nuclear aid President Bush offers to India this week--even of the "civilian" kind--will free up Indian resources to make more bombs, says Council for a Livable World, drumming up support for a key bill in Congress to oppose U.S. nuclear aid to India.

28.02.2006 Farmers snatched 50 sacks of urea at Keshabpur upazila in Jessore on Sunday evening after failing to collect any from dealers.

28.02.2006 ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will decide to extend financial assistance for mega water reservoirs once the government of Pakistan achieves a complete consensus and ensures comprehensive compensation to the people affected by the dams, said Peter L Fedon, country director ADB resident mission.

27.02.2006 Up to 10 countries, led by France, are expected to agree to impose a tax on air travel tomorrow, with the money used to increase spending on overseas aid.

26.02.2006 The financial sector and banking have been in the spotlight of late, and it is very opportune for us to discuss this topic. Bangladesh has made real strides in strengthening the banking sector, thanks to the dedicated efforts of the Bangladesh Bank Governor and of his predecessor. However, rising energy prices and pre-election politics are both increasing the number of loans at risk, and there is a very real risk that all the good work in the banking sector could be undone, all the hard-won gains lost, if pre-election politics are allowed their sway. In this environment, strong and committed leadership is needed to sustain existing efforts in the sector. Christine Wallich highlights some specific actions for GovernmentÂ’s full attention.

23.02.2006 KABUL, 4 Jul 2005 (IRIN) - Most of rural Afghanistan continues to suffer from food insecurity and a lack of government input. In an exclusive interview with IRIN, Mohammad Hanif Atmar, Afghan Minister of Rural Rehabilitation and Development, said that despite billions of dollars worth of reconstruction over three years, rural areas continue to face huge challenges.

23.02.2006 The United Kingdom is giving aid of £20m a year in efforts to stop opium cultivation. However, farmers will not get monetary compensation matching the amount they will lose if they agree to abandon poppy cultivation.

23.02.2006 A new fund will support women's health organizations around that world that have been cut off from U.S. aid because their stance on abortion is not in line with the Bush Administration's. The U.K. has already pledged $5 million.

20.02.2006 The UN has appointed Tom Koenigs, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, as the new head of the United Nations Mission Assistance in Afghanistan. One of his main roles would be to coordinate a multi-billion dollar development plan for the South Asian nation.

17.02.2006 On 15-16 February, a delegation of the European Commission, headed by the President Jose Manuel Barroso and EU Expansion Commissioner Ollie Rehn, visited Zagreb. During the visit, the EC and the Government of Croatia signed the Agreement on Decentralization of Management with Pre-Accession Assistance.

16.02.2006 CHENNAI: Unless the current economic upsurge carried along with it the rural people, the robust growth rate cannot be sustained, said Jaggi Vasudev, founder of Isha Foundation.

16.02.2006 Simple, inexpensive and community based solutions are yielding big rewards in a country with the highest child and maternal mortality rates in the world. Programs that focus on local participation, education and integrated approaches to improving healthcare are giving people the tools needed to treat and prevent the biggest killers: malaria, diarrhea and pneumonia.

16.02.2006 Chechen authorities have instituted a ban on all things Danish in the wake of the cartoon controversy. The ban includes the suspension of a refugee relief program run by the Danish Refugee Council and has raised concerns over how the sudden disruption in aid will impact Chechnya's war-affected population.

15.02.2006 Despite achieving remarkable growth in the last decade, tribal nations continue to lack resources, said National Congress of American Indians president Joe Garcia recently, noting that their success still depends on U.S. government investment as well as its respect for tribal rights.

15.02.2006 A new fund at the United Nations is expected to enable rapid responses to sudden disasters as well as divert life-saving aid to lesser-known or forgotten crises.

14.02.2006 U.N. and European Commission officials launched a wide-ranging Action Plan to meet the immediate needs of the 30 million most vulnerable people in war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). If successful, the plan will help usher in stability in a country that has suffered one of the worst humanitarian catastrophes since WWII.

14.02.2006 The Asian Development Bank(ADB) will help develop and disseminate water-saving rice technologies in the drought-prone and water-short region of South Asia, through a technical assistance grant of one million US dollars, an ADB report said on Monday.

13.02.2006 A fictional fundraiser in an upcoming episode of ABCÂ’s soap opera "All My Children" is blurring the lines between fantasy and reality to benefit American Red Cross disaster relief efforts. The episode will include a Mardi Gras themed gala during which Susan Lucci's character will urge guests, and viewers at home, to call and donate to Red Cross efforts in the Gulf Coast and elsewhere.

13.02.2006 A massive poverty alleviation project envisaged by the south Indian state of Kerala has been delayed to an extent that it is unlikely to take off this financial year. The development project would have led to the implementation of some recommendations by Indian President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.

10.02.2006 The European Commission launched a plan to fund development in Africa through the European Investment Bank (EIB ) in an effort to achieve Millennium Development Goals and put the E.U. on “equal footing” with the World Bank. Civil society groups are concerned that the EIB lacks transparency and development expertise, and will contribute little to poverty eradication.