The Guardian Newspaper and its NGO partner Amref have embarked on the mid-term evaluation of the Katine Project in northeastern Uganda.
The project is a 3 year rural development initiative (often compared to the Millennium Development Projects) that focuses on interventions in Health, Education, Water & Sanitation, Livelihoods and Governance.
Before the official evaluation report is published, this article questions our performance thus far in delivering the objectives of the livelihoods more...
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'The paper argues that successful service delivery to poor people requires that clients have voice and influence in the process of service design and delivery. It presents methods - such as participatory planning and gender budgeting - to strengthen the voice of poor women, and help ensure that both women's and men's concerns and priorities are taken into account. But it also recognises that tools and training are not enough; if women's perspectives on poverty reduction priorities disappear once more...
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'Developing-country governments desperately need more long-term and predictable aid, given through their budgets, to finance the expansion of health care, education, and other vital social services. The European Commission (EC) is one of the biggest donors providing this kind of essential budget support, and has innovative plans to further improve and increase this aid. European Union (EU) member states must support these ambitious plans. The EC in turn must do more to improve on this good start more...
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'High food prices have brought into sharp focus an existing global food crisis that affects almost one billion people. Lasting solutions to the problem include adequate investment in agriculture, fairer trade, the redistribution of resources, and action on climate change.
But hungry people cannot be fed on the hope of long-term solutions. Governments, supported by aid agencies and donors, must act now to provide systematic emergency assistance and longer-term support to those in need, and to more...
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Project summary 'The Government and Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) have called on the World Bank and African Development Bank to partner in the country’s energy sector development at the policy, strategy, and investment levels. This includes a request for provision of an IBRD and ADB loan and/or guarantees for the 600-MW coal-fired Morupule B Power Generation and Transmission project and other associated.The Government and BPC desire that energy sector development, especially coal power proj more...
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'This paper reflects on the commission’s findings in relation to statistics from a variety of sources including the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and the Economist. It highlights the countries in the region most at risk from the economic crisis, documenting changes in their economic growth, trade and financial sectors, and unemployment levels. It explores what the policy implications are for the region’s governments responding to the crisis and the wider implications for donors.'
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'International humanitarian aid provides relief to tens of millions of people each year: in 2007 to more than 43 million people through UN humanitarian appeals alone. However, it is also often too little, too late, and unpredictable, or inappropriate to the needs of communities, including specific groups such as women and girls. The UN-led reforms since 2005 to improve humanitarian aid have begun – but only begun – to make a difference to this variable performance.
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