Top global development foundations in South Africa: A primer
South Africa’s foundations are expanding beyond their traditional focus on domestic issues. Here’s a list of the country’s most noteworthy aid and relief foundations.
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Development Indices: Tools of Persuasion?
Posted by Steve Tibbett on 13 December 2010
In an apparent attempt to throw off the current economic gloom, U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron has asked government statisticians to try to come with a better measure for quality of life than gross domestic product. The tabloid press last month labeled his new indicator the “fun index,” but Cameron insists it’s “just a general picture of how life is improving.” His intervention follows Nicholas Sarkozy’s appointment of Joseph Stigl...
- Tags: UK, Europe, World Bank - WB, Stephen Tibbett, HDI, Human Development Index, Millennium Development Corporation, Washington, aid transparency
- Posted:12/13/2010 10:26:04 PM | Email | Permalink
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Picture of Change: A Photo Contest Zooms in on Poverty
Posted by Kristine Ballad on 24 May 2010
What image would propel the world – not just international donor agencies – to action? The United Nations, Agence France-Presse Foundation and Olympus Corporation believe that poignant photographs may do. In a contest they opened May 2010, they want to see people photos depicting efforts done to achieve a particular MDG. Dubbed as Picture This: We Can End Poverty, the international undertaking aims to “motivate people and governments in developed and developing coun...
- Tags: education, health, humanitarian aid, water, United Nations, United Nations Development Programme, Agence France-Presse Foundation, Olympus Corporation, Adventist Development and Relief Agency International, UN, UNDP, AFP, ADRA, Helen Clark, China, Sub-Sahara, Japan, New York, United States, Africa, Millennium Development Goals, MDGs, aid worker, Picture This: We Can End Poverty, high-level summit
- Posted:05/24/2010 09:51:52 AM | Email | Permalink
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World Bank and Partners Launch eTransform Initiative to Maximize Technology's Potential for Development
Posted by Josh Miller on 23 April 2010
Six multinational companies, two governments and the World Bank announced a partnership Friday (April 23) in Washington to help countries use technology for development purposes. “When you look at the world today, citizens are simply saying: Enough of leaders thinking they know all of the answers to our problems; we can find the answers to our problems,” said Obiageli Ezekwesili, the World Bank’s vice president for Africa. “There’s nothing that ...
- Tags: World Bank - WB, Microsoft, Washington, MOU, memorandum of understanding, public-private partnership, international development, disaster management, education, tourism, Kenya, France, African Union, Korea, ETI, eTransform Initiative, Gemalto, IBM, L-1 Identity Solutions, Pfizer
- Posted:04/23/2010 09:40:17 PM | Email | Permalink
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More Details on Haiti Trust Fund Contracting
Posted by Josh Miller on 23 April 2010
The Haiti government-led reconstruction commission will approve all agencies that will oversee projects backed by the World Bank-managed trust fund and these implementing bodies will follow their own procurement procedures to award contracts, a bank economist said April 23 at a meeting of civil society organizations ahead of the World Bank-International Monetary Fund spring meetings. Auguste Kouame, the bank’s lead economist for Caribbean countries, said the World Bank ...
- Tags: Haiti, World Bank - WB, procurement, reconstruction, International Monetary Fund
- Posted:04/23/2010 09:55:43 AM | Email | Permalink
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World Bank: Rich Nations Should Lead Climate Change Fight
Posted by Tarra Quismundo on 30 March 2010
What the French spend on cheese and Americans on pet food, the world’s governments spend for research and development of “climate-smart” energy sources annually. The amount: $30 billion. And experts say that’s too little to arrest a global threat that could submerge coastal villages, cause extreme weather and place millions of lives in peril if warnings continue to be ignored and action is put off. High-income nations – the...
- Tags: World Bank - WB, climate change, Copenhagen climate change summit, environment, renewable energy, infrastructure, cap and trade, carbon emissions, international development, water, Africa, Latin America, Asia, Europe
- Posted:03/30/2010 11:48:22 PM | Email | Permalink
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