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Obama Unveils Detailed Food Security Plans

By: Josh Miller

The Obama administration solicits stakeholder input, identifies procurement priorities and names 20 countries likely to receive the bulk of U.S. food security funding in 2011 and beyond....

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  The U.S. Agency for International Development will seek supplemental emergency funds to offset expenses in Haiti. The agency’s chief told Congress last week that he hopes to avoid reallocating funds from other crises relief programs....

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      Journalist Edward Girardet of The Guardian called musician and aid advocate Bob Geldof “naïve and self-righteous” in denying any irregularity in the use of USD100 million famine relief raised for Ethiopia in 1985, as the BBC World Service had reported based on testimonies by former rebels.   Citing his experience covering humanitarian crises across Africa and Asia, Girardet backed the BBC report saying it only shed light on how aid is “manipulated by all ...

    By Tarra Quismundo on 18 March 2010

  • Oxfam: EU Must Halt Israel Blockade on Gaza

      The European Union must take action to halt Israel’s blockade on the disputed Gaza Strip as the Palestine territory suffered shortages in basic supplies, including water and sanitation services. Charity organization Oxfam International made this call to the EU, the largest donor to Palestinians, as the bloc’s foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton visited the Gaza strip as part of a five-day swing across the Middle East this week, Xinhua reports. Oxfam said in a statem...

    By Tarra Quismundo on 18 March 2010

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      Development budget cuts forced by the economic crunch in recent years helped keep Ireland’s aid programs afloat, Irish Minister of State for Overseas Development Peter Power said while on a visit in South Africa this week.   The Irish Times reports that Peter Power defended the recent 22 percent slash in Ireland’s aid budget saying existing aid programs would have been in peril if the government did not implement budget cuts as a means to protect and sustain the cou...

    By Tarra Quismundo on 18 March 2010

  • CSOs Demand IDB Transparency and Accountability

      The Inter-American Development Bank must institute reforms, seek stakeholder inputs and demonstrate greater transparency and accountability in its financing programs and project evaluation, civil society organizations said March 17.   Ahead of the international lender’s annual governors’ meeting in Cancun, Mexico, civil society organizations demanded for a greater role in IDB planning and decision-making, calling the lender “an accomplice to 50 years of inequa...

    By Tarra Quismundo on 18 March 2010

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      The Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries and the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS, or UNAIDS, signed a memorandum of understanding to increase the two organizations’ collaboration. The partnership will help leverage technical, political and financial support for civil society networks and organizations that work to combat AIDS in Portuguese-speaking countries. It also seeks to improve the sharing of best practices between these countries through horizonta...

    By Ma. Rizza Leonzon on 18 March 2010

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