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UN and Dutch University partner to reach development goals
13 10 2008 The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has joined forces with a Dutch university to promote education and research in developing countries to build momentum towards reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), eight ambitious anti-poverty targets with a 2015 deadline.
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Science and technology aid 450 million small farmers under the plan
09 10 2008 The world’s 450 million small farmers, responsible for the livelihoods of over 2 billion rural poor people, will gain greater access to scientific and technological advances and agricultural research under a United Nations-backed agreement signed today.
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Financial crisis threatens efforts towards global anti-poverty targets, says Migiro
09 10 2008 Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro has warned countries that the current financial crisis, which is impacting all economies and exacerbating the suffering of millions, is also threatening the efforts to slash poverty, hunger, disease and other socio-economic ills by 2015, known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
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Multilateral System Needs Fundamental Overhaul, Zoellick Says
07 10 2008 The way the world tries to solve its economic problems needs to be rethought amid today’s global crisis, including turning the Group of Seven into a Steering Group that empowers rising economic states, said World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick.
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Global Poverty Requires Action Not Rhetoric
07 10 2008 Massive suffering of people in a world of plenty is a damning indictment of a political class that, for all its rhetoric, simply does not care enough to take the action needed to abolish global poverty says the author.
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UN Agency and French Institute Boost ties to help developing nations
02 10 2008 The United Nations atomic watchdog agency is boosting cooperation with a leading French research institute in the use of nuclear techniques to address the needs of developing countries in such areas as pest control, and soil and water management.
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The EU-Africa Strategic Partnership
02 10 2008 What is the "EU ' Africa Strategic Partnership?" The Joint Africa-EU Strategy was adopted at the EU-Africa Summit in Lisbon (December 2007). It is a political vision and roadmap for the cooperation between the two continents in existing and new areas, going beyond the traditional donor-recipient approach, beyond institutions by involving non-State actors, and addressing global challenges such as peace and security, climate change, migration, trade and regional integration.
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EU-Africa co-operation strengthens with 4th meeting between European Commission and African Union Commission
02 10 2008 Almost one year on since the launch of a new strategic partnership between the EU and Africa at the Lisbon Summit, tomorrow's joint College to College meeting will highlight the increased partnership between the two institutions. Discussions will focus on the priority actions to be taken in areas such as migration, energy and the Millennium Development Goals as well as current concerns surrounding global economic stability and the increase in food prices.
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World Bank Approves New Financing to Assist Belarus in Improving Delivery of Water Supply and Sanitation Services
01 10 2008 The Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank today approved a US$60 million loan to the Republic of Belarus for a Water Supply and Sanitation Project. The project aims to increase the efficiency, quality, and sustainability of water supply and sanitation services to 1.7 million people living in 20 rayons across the country. This is the first operation under the recently approved World Bank’s Country Assistance Strategy for Belarus (2008-2011) targeted at areas that improve people’s livelihoods and contribute to protecting the environment.
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eGov monitor Weekly - 29 September 2008
30 09 2008 The Weekly has been published and you can read it here: node/Weekly334
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PM’s speech on the Education Fund
30 09 2008 "...education for all is not just a moral right, an economic necessity, a matter of social justice, it is also a security issue and I hope the whole world will take on note..." said the Prime Minister in a recent speech on the Education Fund.
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Food and Fuel Crises Require Results, Not Just Promises - Malaysia says to UN
29 09 2008 The global food and fuel crisis will be not resolved unless countries start turning their statements and promises of assistance and reform on the issue into reality, Malaysian Foreign Minister Rais Yatim told the General Assembly tonight, calling for a multi-track approach to tackling the problems.
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UN joins Europe and World Bank to boost recovery of states after conflict , disaster
27 09 2008 In an effort to more effectively help countries recover from conflicts and natural disasters, the United Nations, European Union and World Bank signed an agreement today to harmonize their collective assistance, developing common tools, training and evaluation mechanisms.
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Strengthened political will needed to address global inequalities
27 09 2008 Political will must be reinvigorated to address the “endemic crisis of development,” the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, speaking on behalf of the Group of 77 developing countries and China known as the G-77, said in New York today.
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Global leadership more vital than ever to solve today's crises - Ban Ki Moon
25 09 2008 Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today opened the General Assembly’s annual high-level debate by urging world leaders to rise to the “challenge of global leadership” and work together to solve the most pressing and intractable problems, from climate change and the energy crisis to entrenched poverty and the conflict in Sudan’s Darfur region.
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World failure on poverty ‘unacceptable’
25 09 2008 Over a billion people will continue to face desperate poverty and starvation in 2015 as a result of governments’ failure to crack down on corporate abuses and eradicate global poverty.
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Award winners prove that fighting poverty is good for business
25 09 2008 Today in New York, the Secretary of State for International Development, Douglas Alexander, will launch the Global Business Call to Action Partnership. The BCTA was launched in May 2008, in partnership with the United Nations Development ProgrammeThe new Partnership will take forward the BCTA internationally to facilitate private sector activities in developing countries in a sustainable way that boosts economic development.
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ADB President Proposes New Forum to Boost Regional Financial Stability
25 09 2008 Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Haruhiko Kuroda today proposed establishing an “Asian Financial Stability Dialogue” to coordinate regulatory development and monitor potential vulnerabilities in the region’s markets and financial systems.
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Africa’s Women and the MDGs: a need for a step change in action -Benita Ferrero-Waldner
24 09 2008 More than halfway towards the Millenium Development Goal target date ' 2015 ' there has been some progress on gender objectives in Africa, notably in the realm of women’s increased political participation. Excellency your becoming Africa’s first-elected woman president in 2006 bears witness to this.
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UK announces £42 million emergency assistance for hunger crisis
23 09 2008 In response to the growing humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa, the UK's Department for International Development today announced a £42 million package to help the 17 million people facing hunger in the region.
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UK to help Bangladesh's poorest people fight rising food prices and rising tides
23 09 2008 Over a million of the poorest people in Bangladesh are set to benefit from a £70m UK-funded programme that will put food on their plates, money in their pockets to buy rice and protect them from rising river levels.
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World Leader tackle Africa's development challenges at the General Assembly
23 09 2008 The General Assembly is convening a high-level meeting today on Africa’s development needs, amid growing concerns that the continent is lagging behind other regions in the global campaign to halve poverty, illiteracy and other socio-economic ills by 2015.
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"Africa's development needs: - Jose Manuel Barroso
23 09 2008 Firstly, rising world food prices. Action is needed to support agriculture in developing countries ' to enable African farmers to grow more food for Africans. We have already stepped in with short term measures worth an additional €550 million in 2008, with a further €250 million to come in 2009. Now the Commission has proposed a new €1 billion Food Facility, promoting agricultural production by improving poor farmers’ access to inputs such as fertilizers and seed. This is entirely in line with Africa's own objectives for developing agriculture, and I hope the Facility will soon be agreed inside the European Union.
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Can EU funds be put to use to help food crisis?
23 09 2008 A plan to boost food production in developing countries and provide urgent food aid has been recently discussed by the Development Committee of the European Parliament. The aim is to use surplus money from the EU’s agriculture budget to help the poor.
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Reform of global economic institutions, better Infrastructure, and more effective aid is key to MDGs
20 09 2008 An EU research paper on the UN Millennium Development Goals, which has been presented in Brussels today, argues that the Goals are threatened by the challenges of high food and oil prices and global economic slowdown. The paper suggests that greater efforts are needed for more effective aid, investments in infrastructure to sustain growth, and that social protection should be in each country's agenda. The research was conducted by an independent group of European researchers led by Prof. François Bourguignon, Director of the Paris School of Economics.
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