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Briefing paper

Millstone or Milestone? What rich countries must do in Paris to make aid work for the poor

01/02/2005

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11 pages long

Languages: English

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At the start of March, international development ministers from the world’s richest countries will gather round the table in Paris to identify the actions needed to make aid work for one billion people living in extreme poverty. Two years ago in Rome, these same countries made a series of commitments to reform the aid system, […]

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Journal article

Aiding and abetting the politicians?

01/02/2005

4 pages long

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The British government has increasingly assumed the role of international arbiter and peacekeeper, both with and without a UN mandate. The hijacking of the moral high ground and recurrent assertion of global consensus – even in the presence of overwhelming opposition – reveals a disregard for the integrity of cultural diversity and opinion. Often `humanitarian’ […]

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Journal article

‘Self-knowledge is the prerequisite of humanity’: personal development and self-awareness for aid workers

01/02/2005

6 pages long

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In order to take up the challenge of responding to the thought-provoking insights found in The Selfish Altruist (Vaux 2001), the author brings together some of the threads in the book and combines them with her own psychological approaches to increasing self-awareness in order to put forward specific suggestions as to how personal development and […]

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Journal article

The Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) and faith-based NGO aid to Africa

01/08/2004

13 pages long

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The authors examine the role of international faith-based NGOs in foreign aid and development assistance for Africa, with special reference to the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC). The MCC is successful in its contribution to development and empowerment in the 20 African countries in which it works because of its philosophical and programmatic focus on accountability, […]

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Briefing note

Undermining Access to Medicines: Comparison of five US FTAs: A technical note

01/06/2004

1 documents

23 pages long

Languages: English

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The US government is using bilateral and regional free-trade agreements (FTAs) to impose unnecessarily stringent intellectual property standards on developing countries that go beyond even the damaging requirements of World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules. These new higher standards favour the short-term commercial interests of US pharmaceutical companies, at the expense of public health in developing […]

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Briefing paper

The Cost of Childbirth: How women are paying the price for broken promises on aid

01/03/2004

1 documents

30 pages long

Languages: English

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One women dies every minute as a result of problems in pregnancy or childbirth. The vast majority of these deaths are avoidable. Yet on current trends the international target of reducing maternal deaths by three-quarters by 2015 will be missed. Northern governments could transform the prospects of reaching the target by increasing the aid that […]

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Briefing paper

The IMF and the Millennium Development Goals: Failing to deliver for low income countries

01/09/2003

1 documents

35 pages long

Languages: English

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The IMF needs to radically change the way it works in low income countries. It must finally move on from an outdated focus on exclusively short-term macro-stability and pessimism about aid to one based on long-term poverty needs and the MDGs. If it does this it can play a vital, proactive and dynamic role as […]

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Briefing paper

Where is the Impact? There should be no more delay in delivering poverty and social impact analysis for World Bank and IMFsupported policy reforms in developing countries

01/04/2003

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15 pages long

Languages: English

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The World Bank and IMF continue to drive forward policy reforms in developing countries with almost no prior analysis of the likely impact on poverty. Despite repeated commitments to ensure Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) is carried out on all key reforms, very little progress has been made. The Spring Meetings are a perfect […]

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Briefing paper

Iraq: Humanitarian-Military relations

01/03/2003

2 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Humanitarian aid is most effectively delivered by civilian humanitarian agencies under UN leadership. Military involvement can compromise the effective delivery of aid and lead to unintended consequences, potentially threatening the security of civilian aid workers.

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Journal article

The learning process of the Local Capacities for Peace Project

01/08/2002

10 pages long

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If aid is found to support a war effort, should aid agencies and practitioners continue to give it? The resounding answer given by aid workers all over the world is that the needs of suffering people are too important to ignore and, further, that there can be no justification for not assisting suffering people. But […]

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