'For generations, poor people around the world have left their homes to seek better wages abroad. Today, the money they send home totals an estimated US$200 billion a year. In Latin America, remittances are worth more than direct foreign investment, official development assistance and foreign aid combined. They have a huge potential to reduce rural poverty. With this in mind, IFAD is exploring ways to lower the transaction costs of sending money home and is working with governments to make sure more...
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Antonio Tujan of Reality of Aid Network speaks at the Accra Forum ( courtesy Terra Viva website). 'Aid effectiveness must be understood in the broad framework of development effectiveness. The two are not mutually exclusive, contrary concepts, but are mutually reinforcing - there can be no aid effectiveness if aid does not fulfill the goals of addressing the objectives of development such as human rights, social justice and gender equality and sustainable development. Development effectiveness a more...
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'It looked like this day would never come.' These were the sentiments of Emmanuel Akweke of IDEG in Ghana speaking at a press conference at the Civil Society Organisation (CSO) parallel forum. The parallel forum was held to review the Accra Agenda for Action (AAA) in preparation of the third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness. 'Aid relates to people in
different ways. It could be for water sanitation, for health or education. There needs to be transparency and understanding,' Akweke
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'Making the health and rights of women a global priority is not only the right thing to do, it is smart economics,” write Thoraya Ahmed Obaid and Theresa Shaver. ' The neighbour heard Husan Pari’s screams and went to help her. She was about to deliver her baby. A traditional birth attendant tried her best, but the baby just would not emerge. The birth attendant refused to help anymore. She said to take Husan Pari to the nearby hospital. On the way there, Husan Pari turned blue and became unc more...
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ACCRA, Sep 4 (IPS) - As the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness drew to a close in the Ghanaian capital, gender activists reflected on the way ahead. Having successfully raised the visibility of gender equality and women's empowerment on the Accra Agenda, attention is now turning to the International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus in Doha, Qatar in November and the women are preparing to take forward their successes.
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The international debate on effective aid that is shaped by developing countries' needs rather than donors' priorities was resumed when ministers from over 100 countries, and members of development agencies, donor organisations and civil society gathered for the Third High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra Sep. 2-4. The Accra Forum reviewed progress in implementation of the 2005 Paris Declaration on aid effectiveness, and agreed on a new agenda to increase effectiveness of global develo more...
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The Network for Women’s Rights in Ghana (NETRIGHT), a coalition of women’s groups, held a forum for international women’s organisations in Accra, leading up to the High Level Forum. Birte Rodenberg, Policy Advisor of Action Against Aids in Germany, who participated in the forum, spoke to IPS (Terra Viva).
IPS: Coming from a developed country, what does effective aid mean to you?
BR: I am a taxpayer and want to know that the money my country gives out as aid goes to the poor it was m more...
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