Global IssuesNews headlines for “Foreign Aid for Development Assistance”, page 6
NEPAL: Protests Fail to Stop Climate Loans
- Inter Press Service
Nepal will implement five projects with 110 million dollars sanctioned by the controversial Climate Investment Funds (CIFs), ignoring protestors who say this least developed country merits grants rather than climate loans.
CUBA: Mural-Lined Street Transforms Neighbourhood
- Inter Press Service
Forget about finding Cantarrana on a map or travel guide to Cuba. 'Nobody knew about us; we didn’t exist,' said one resident of this working-class neighbourhood on the west side of Havana.
Q&A: ‘For Fragile States Aid is Life, Not Money’
- Inter Press Service
The new deal for the ‘fragile states,’ from the G7+ — a group of 19 countries that struggle with poverty, instability and violent conflict - has been hailed as a major breakthrough at the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness here, earlier this week.
Busan Skirts Gender Equality
- Inter Press Service
Gender champions have lauded the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness for providing gender equality and the empowerment of women a special session, but there is dissatisfaction with Thursday’s Busan outcome document.
Inclusiveness Wins at Busan Aid Forum
- Inter Press Service
Inclusiveness was the winner as donors, recipient governments, emerging economies, multilateral lenders and civil society representatives hammered out a consensual document at the close of a major meeting in this South Korean city to boost development aid effectiveness.
Lessons for Africa at Busan Aid Forum
- Inter Press Service
There are many inspiring stories that delegates from Africa attending the ongoing Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness can take home to provide insights to their respective countries on making the transformation to middle-income economies.
Business as Development Tool
- Inter Press Service
The idea of business as an effective development tool is gaining ground at Busan where hundreds of experts are gathered to charter a new chapter in global aid amidst growing political and economic uncertainty among donors.
Clinton Champions Gender Agenda at Busan
- Inter Press Service
Women toil in the fields for most of their lives producing food and strengthening the largely agricultural economy of African countries, but when their fathers, husbands or older sons die, they are no longer welcome on land they may have tended for years.
Nicaragua Sows Quality Seeds to Reap Quantity
- Inter Press Service
'Using high quality seed, I harvested 20 quintals (one quintal = 100 pounds), while with ordinary seed I only get 10 quintals,' Vilma Rodríguez, a beneficiary of a seed production programme in the northwestern Nicaraguan province of Estelí, told IPS.
Aid Dependency on the Decline
- Inter Press Service
Poor countries have depended on rich nations to supplement their sector budget without which millions of people would have continued to live in abject poverty. Have the years of funding made these countries any less dependent?
Powered by 
and 
Web feed for Foreign Aid for Development Assistance news headlines