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NEDA to monitor ODA projects to improve implementation
Oda :: Ghana | 4 minutes ago
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Wednesday it is improving the monitoring of official development assistance (ODA)-funded projects by instituting alert mechanisms to identify potential or actual problems, among other innovations. "The innovations will not only improve the efficiency...
Tags: oda project, ODA, Rolando G. Tungpalan, NEDA, alert mechanism, Ghana, International relations, Environment, Neda Galicia, Development aid, National Economic and Development Authority, Development, International development, Aid, Sustainability
EU state aid reaches 2.2 percent of GDP in 2008
Brussels :: Belgium | 1 day ago
Credibility Well-targeted aid should thus continue to help us move along the road to economic recovery." Under the EC treaty state aid rules, state aid is generally prohibited. However, the treaty leaves room for a number of policy objectives for which state...
Tags: European Commission, Belgium, Brussels, International relations, European Union, Directorate-General for Competition, Neelie Kroes, Federalism, Development, Aid
Independent Appeal: The people for whom identity cards are a precious gift
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 1 day ago
Credibility But six years ago, Mr Tiwari moved into a shelter on the edge of the frenzied maze of the Old City. Here, every evening, tired lines of several hundred labourers and rickshaw-pullers queue up for a mattress and blanket and for just six rupees take their...
Tags: id cards, Union Bank of India, banks account, Delhi, Afghanistan, Kabul, Economy of India, ActionAid, Development charities, Identity document, Social Issues, Charities, Aid, Personal identification, Homelessness
Bank to present gift to laid-off workers fund
Wichita :: KS :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility Wichita will present a $50,000 gift to the United Way Laid-Off Workers Fund this afternoon. The presentation will be made at 1:30 p.m. at the laid-off workers center at the West River Plaza office complex, 2622 West Central. Bank officials said the gift...
Tags: United Way Laid-Off, workers fund, Wichita, Wichita metropolitan area, Wichita Kansas, 2-1-1, Bank of America, Labor, Aid
Donors pledge over $8 billion in aid to Vietnam next year
Hanoi :: Vietnam | 4 days ago
Credibility It suspended aid earlier this year for several months over a corruption scandal involving a Japanese-funded project. The World Bank offered $2.5 billion and the Asian Development Bank pledged $1.48 billion at the annual Consultative Group (CG) donors'...
Tags: Vietnam, The World Bank, climate change, Victoria Kwakwa, Hanoi, Environment, Business Finance, Foreign aid to Vietnam, Development aid, Development, International development, Aid, Official Development Assistance, Sustainability
UN stresses aid role of business
Banda Aceh :: Indonesia | 5 days ago
Credibility UN aid chief stresses relief role of private sector The UN's aid chief has said there needs to be a more effective partnership between humanitarian organisations and the private sector. But Sir John Holmes said it could only be achieved by a change of...
Tags: private sector, sir john, John Holmes, Indonesia, Banda Aceh, Environment, Humanitarian principles, Consolidated Appeals Process, Non-governmental organization, Civil Affairs, Humanitarian aid, Development, Disaster Accident, Aid, Natural disasters
Africa: Donors Fall Short in Commitments to Developing Countries
Toronto :: Canada | 5 days ago
Credibility Donors Fall Short in Commitments to Developing Countries Zanele Mji 23 November 2009 Climate change, the economic crisis, and conflict are pushing more and more of the world's poor into further suffering. Most Active Stories: U.S., Canada and Africa...
Tags: Canada, Toronto, Environment, International relations, Disaster, Development, Humanitarian aid, International development, Disaster Accident, Humanitarian Response Index, Aid, Development Assistance Research Associates
Democratic Voice of Burma: UN aid ‘loaned’ to Chin famine victims – Francis Wade
Hart :: MI :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility Chin state is currently suffering from an acute food crisis, due largely to a mass rodent infestation which is destroying farmland and food supplies...Villagers claim they have been told they must repay twice the amount they are given, either in cash...
Tags: UNDP, India-Burma, Chin state, food aid, Hart, Burma, Development, world food price crisis, Disaster Accident, Paletwa Township, Aid, Military dictatorship, United Nations Development Programme
Book, chocolate fair at Bear River H.S.
Grass Valley :: CA :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility The school's library is hosting its annual book fair from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday, Friday, Monday and Tuesday at its Magnolia Road campus...Thursday the school is also hosting a “Chocolate Extravaganza.” For $6 admission, you get 12 chocolate credits...
Tags: Grass Valley, Education, FAFSA, Financial aid, Hospitality Recreation, Student financial aid, Chocolate, Chocolatiers, Scholarship, Aid, Entertainment Culture, Human Interest, Office of Federal Student Aid
As Troop Escalation Begins, Relief Groups Decry Militarization of U.S. Aid to Afghanistan
New York :: NY :: USA | 6 days ago
Credibility As Troop Escalation Begins, Relief Groups Decry Militarization of U.S. Aid to Afghanistan As President Obama prepares to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, aid agencies have issued a warning about what they describe as the increasing militarization...
Tags: Afghanistan, New York, Aid agency, Politics, Humanitarian aid, War in Afghanistan, CARE, Disaster Accident, Aid, War Conflict
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