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IPS Terraviva | Africa » 3rd HLF http://africa.ipsterraviva.net The Independent Family of Publications from Inter Press Service Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:56:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 © wordpress@ipsterraviva.net () wordpress@ipsterraviva.net() The Independent Family of Publications from Inter Press Service wordpress@ipsterraviva.net No no http://africa.ipsterraviva.net/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg IPS Terraviva | Africa http://africa.ipsterraviva.net 144 144 Three days turned into 18 months for poor Timor-Leste http://africa.ipsterraviva.net/2008/09/04/three-days-turned-into-18-months-for-poor-timor-leste/ http://africa.ipsterraviva.net/2008/09/04/three-days-turned-into-18-months-for-poor-timor-leste/#comments Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:01:22 +0000 Zahira Kharsany http://africa.ipsterraviva.net/?p=138 Accra, Sept 5 (IPS) A government minister from the world’s youngest nation – and also one of its poorest – told a meeting of powerful global bankers today exactly how hard it is to extract aid from rich countries. Emilia Pires, Minister of Finance of Timor Leste - or East Timor - told the 3rd High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in the Ghanaian capital yesterday conditionalities and bureaucracy made it difficult to obtain foreign aid that is sorely needed to develop her country.

]]> http://africa.ipsterraviva.net/2008/09/04/three-days-turned-into-18-months-for-poor-timor-leste/feed/ 0 The poor and their donors agree aid agenda http://africa.ipsterraviva.net/2008/09/04/the-poor-and-their-donors-agree-aid-agenda/ http://africa.ipsterraviva.net/2008/09/04/the-poor-and-their-donors-agree-aid-agenda/#comments Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:56:47 +0000 Zahira Kharsany http://africa.ipsterraviva.net/?p=136 Accra, Sept 5 (IPS) Delegates from both developing and developed countries yesterday adopted an Accra Agenda For Action (AAA) as a blueprint to provide a guide to improve the way aid is given and spent. The document was adopted at the close of a three-day High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness which drew over 1200 delegates from about 120 to the Ghanaian capital.

]]> http://africa.ipsterraviva.net/2008/09/04/the-poor-and-their-donors-agree-aid-agenda/feed/ 0 Why the richest continent is also the poorest http://africa.ipsterraviva.net/2008/09/04/why-the-richest-continent-is-also-the-poorest/ http://africa.ipsterraviva.net/2008/09/04/why-the-richest-continent-is-also-the-poorest/#comments Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:49:09 +0000 Zahira Kharsany http://africa.ipsterraviva.net/?p=134 Accra, Sept 5 (IPS) The ecological impact of natural resource exploitation on the lives of the poor in Africa and other regions is being not addressed sufficiently in aid effectiveness and development discussions, aid experts say. "Africa is known as one of the richest parts of the world when it comes to natural resources, yet it is also the poorest region -- despite the natural wealth and the aid flow," said Charles Mutasa

]]> http://africa.ipsterraviva.net/2008/09/04/why-the-richest-continent-is-also-the-poorest/feed/ 0 Late aid threatening democracies http://africa.ipsterraviva.net/2008/09/04/late-aid-threatening-democracies/ http://africa.ipsterraviva.net/2008/09/04/late-aid-threatening-democracies/#comments Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:44:16 +0000 Zahira Kharsany http://africa.ipsterraviva.net/?p=132 Accra, Sep 4 (IPS) The President of Ghana, host to a global aid meet, told gathered ministers here today delays by rich nations in releasing aid money were threatening democratic governments in poor countries. At the same time, he said Ghana - "in time - wanted to stop being an aid-dependent nation. "Many recipient nations have established various frameworks for financial monitoring and accountability and procurement process," John Kufuor said

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]]> http://africa.ipsterraviva.net/2008/09/04/final-document-yes-but/feed/ 0 What to do about bad regimes http://africa.ipsterraviva.net/2008/09/04/what-to-do-about-bad-regimes/ http://africa.ipsterraviva.net/2008/09/04/what-to-do-about-bad-regimes/#comments Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:37:33 +0000 Zahira Kharsany http://africa.ipsterraviva.net/?p=126 Aid is supposed to promote human rights. And human rights are supposed to make aid more effective. But what do you do when governments refuse to act? Regimes that create conditions for aid to be blocked to their countries should be confronted by strengthening domestic civil societies who would challenge their bad ways, says Robert Fox, executive director of Oxfam Canada.

]]> http://africa.ipsterraviva.net/2008/09/04/what-to-do-about-bad-regimes/feed/ 0 No alignment without a focus on poverty eradication http://africa.ipsterraviva.net/2008/09/04/no-alignment-without-a-focus-on-poverty-eradication/ http://africa.ipsterraviva.net/2008/09/04/no-alignment-without-a-focus-on-poverty-eradication/#comments Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:30:57 +0000 Zahira Kharsany http://africa.ipsterraviva.net/?p=122 Alignment calls for donors to support the recipient country’s national development strategies, institutions and procedures to alleviate poverty within the recipient country. Civil society is concerned that real political differences are “threatening our hopes of achieving the 2010 benchmarks” for aid effectiveness, Paul O’Brien, director of the Aid Effectiveness Team at Oxfam, warned participants at the round table discussion on alignment of aid yesterday.

]]> http://africa.ipsterraviva.net/2008/09/04/no-alignment-without-a-focus-on-poverty-eradication/feed/ 0 ‘Our voices have been heard’ http://africa.ipsterraviva.net/2008/09/03/%e2%80%98our-voices-have-been-heard%e2%80%99/ http://africa.ipsterraviva.net/2008/09/03/%e2%80%98our-voices-have-been-heard%e2%80%99/#comments Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:30:51 +0000 Zahira Kharsany http://africa.ipsterraviva.net/?p=191 Related posts:

]]> http://africa.ipsterraviva.net/2008/09/03/%e2%80%98our-voices-have-been-heard%e2%80%99/feed/ 0 It pays off to invest in women’s health http://africa.ipsterraviva.net/2008/09/03/it-pays-off-to-invest-in-womens-health/ http://africa.ipsterraviva.net/2008/09/03/it-pays-off-to-invest-in-womens-health/#comments Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:23:30 +0000 Zahira Kharsany http://africa.ipsterraviva.net/?p=189 "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. NEW YORK - 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.

]]> http://africa.ipsterraviva.net/2008/09/03/it-pays-off-to-invest-in-womens-health/feed/ 0 Equitable development: the risks of inaction http://africa.ipsterraviva.net/2008/09/03/equitable-development-the-risks-of-inaction/ http://africa.ipsterraviva.net/2008/09/03/equitable-development-the-risks-of-inaction/#comments Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:13:45 +0000 Zahira Kharsany http://africa.ipsterraviva.net/?p=185 The risks of not acting on climate change are grim, writes Yash Tandon, Executive Director of the South Centre. GENEVA - There is much to celebrate in the growth and development of the South in recent years, from the ability of certain Latin American countries to avoid dependence on the North to the growth of the economies of certain Asian countries whose increasing sovereign wealth is now being tapped to bail out distressed banks in the North.

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