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The U.K. Department for International Development collaborates with British and foreign nonprofit groups. Here’s a list of DfID’s leading NGO implementing partners, based on the bilateral donor’s spending from May 2010 to June 2011.
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As Myanmar undergoes a historic political reform process, the impact of the global development community will be measured not only by its financial commitment, but also its discipline and restraint.
As head of Barclays’ global community investment program, Rachael Barber is always on the lookout for partnerships with development groups. How does she do it? We asked this Devex 40 Under 40 International Development Leader in London.
In February 2007, President George W. Bush announced plans to create the U.S. Africa Command as a way to have the military boost African development. The move remains controversial. Francis Fukuyama, international development program director at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, believes the trend to militarize development is dangerous and undermines the development mission.
David Francis
David is a Washington-based journalist and former Devex fellow who now spearheads Devex's "Obama's Foreign Aid Reform" blog. He has written for the Christian Science Monitor, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, SportsIllustrated.com, San Francisco Chronicle, Foreign Policy magazine and the Washington Monthly. David holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago and is working to finish his graduate degree at Georgetown University.