Full Coverage: Aid

30.03.2006 Kathryn Wolford, president of Lutheran World Relief, discusses how, in order to meet global challenges, US relief organisations are increasingly turning to political advocacy as part of their development strategy.

30.03.2006 U.S. aid to developing countries leapt to nearly $28 billion last year from under $20 billion in 2004 and barely $11 billion in 2001--a fairly staggering jump. But take Iraq and Afghanistan out of the equation and the story is quite different.

24.03.2006 The Resource Alliance is holding an International Workshop on Resource Mobilisation for NGOs and the non profit sector from 5-7 May 2006 in Bangkok, Thailand.

23.03.2006 The mantra of development policies promoted by international lending agencies and governments - that private companies would be able to bring water to the worldÂ’s poor - has proven false. In the past decade, private companies have managed to extend water service to just 10 million people, less than one per cent of those who need it, according to a private water suppliers trade group. The UN says nearly 1.1 billion people worldwide lack access to clean water.

21.03.2006 KOZHIKODE: Fifteen visually impaired persons have been provided employment at a unit set up to manufacture disposable, eco-friendly plates under the aegis of the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) here. Forest Minister A. Sujanapal formally inaugurated the unit at a programme held here on Sunday.

11.03.2006 “This year, International Women’s Day is special for all of us as the sufferings are still very much afresh and the wounds have yet to be healed,” Magdalena Moshi of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), said at an event organised jointly by WFP, the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and local authorities in quake hit Muzaffarabad.

10.03.2006 A new emergency response fund--called "the most important qualitative step forward we have taken since 1991"--was launched at the UN Thursday. Already over half-funded, it has begun to support Kenya's drought-affected and Cote d'Ivoire's largely forgotten suffering population.

08.03.2006 On International Women's Day, Americans are encouraging their elected representatives to be leaders in empowering women worldwide--it's the most effective way to defeat poverty, they say. You can send a message too!

07.03.2006 Oxfam International said that five major donor countries have failed to commit anything to a global emergency fund just days before it is officially launched by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan next Thursday. The US, Japan, Australia, Italy and Canada have not pledged a single cent to the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF). France has only given just over one million dollars while poorer countries including Mexico, Grenada and Sri Lanka have all contributed to the fund.

07.03.2006 The United Nations today expressed shock at the "cowardly" murder of an Afghan national contracted by the UN Human Settlements Programme (UN HABITAT), who was dragged from the car he was travelling in and shot dead on Saturday. Mohammad Hashim, the latest in a series of aid officials murdered in Afghanistan, was visiting project sites in Bala Buluk district of Farah province.

03.03.2006 European diplomats expect Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai to reform the Supreme Court which is currently based on religious law instead of civic law and only has men as judges. Both - the Europeans as well as the Afghans - accept that it is a tall order but agree that there is a need for reform in the judiciary at all levels.

03.03.2006 A five-year ambitious programme of Saarc Development Goals (SDGs) was launched in Dhaka yesterday as a step towards making the South Asian nations free from abject poverty.

03.03.2006 MALE, Mar 2 (HNS) -The European Union has approved legislation paving the way for Maldives to receive a €50 million (Rf 7.7 billion) loan to help the country's post-tsunami reconstruction efforts.

03.03.2006 The World Bank has temporarily suspended financial support to the roads and resettlement components of the Mumbai Urban Transport Project (MUTP) until concerns around the equitable treatment of people affected by the works are resolved.

01.03.2006 Since it's founding in 1982 Operation Smile has been providing free reconstructive surgery to children with facial deformities in 24 countries around the world, helping end the isolation, embarrassment, and health problems associated with cleft lips and cleft palates.

01.03.2006 France and Britain agreed yesterday to raise billions of dollars for health and education by floating bonds on the world's financial markets, and UK Chancellor Gordon Brown was reportedly won round to the idea of a levy on air passengers.