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EU member states are becoming increasingly inward-looking and eager to promote aid policies which prioritise foreign or domestic policy objectives. These are the main conclusions of the annual AidWatch report by CONCORD, released on May 19th in Brussels.
Despite being the world’s biggest aid donor, only nine countries met their EU aid targets in 2010, with the bloc as a whole falling...
With €53.8 billion (0.43% of its GDP), the European Union’s official development aid (ODA) reached a record level in 2010, up by €4.5 billion on 2009. “The EU remains incontestably the world’s leading donor,” declared Development Commissioner Andris Piebalgs, while admitting that it has failed to honour its pledge to jointly allocate 0.56% of its gross domestic...
After 20 turbulent centuries of history, Iceland - an island that came into being just 20 million years ago by virtue of a whim of nature - straddling the rift between the American and Eurasian continental plates - is expected to join the European Union within the next two years. That’s provided its population, shaken by the 2008 financial crisis, gives its approval.
The country’s...
The pilot phase to set up a European Voluntary Humanitarian Aid Corps was launched in Budapest, Hungary on 17 June. The vision of an EU voluntary corps is set out in the EU’s Treaty of Lisbon which came into force in 2009.
After extensive consultation with stakeholders on the design of the future corps, EU officials say that this test phase will build on existing volunteering schemes...
EU public gives big ‘yes’ to development aid
Nine out of ten European Union (EU) citizens say that aid for developing countries is very important or fairly important, according to the EU’s ‘Eurobarometer’ poll on ‘Europeans, development aid and the Millennium Development Goals’. It canvassed 26,500 EU citizens across all 27 EU Member States in June...
‘Train4dev’*, the informal donors’ network, is now in its eighth year. Time to make an appraisal. Overall, it has proved positive.
Used to acting according to their own priorities and cultural model rather than coordinating their efforts, cooperation agencies in the North are now trying to speak with a single voice. The first stage is to harmonise their methods and concepts...
In the run up to the September Review conference in New York on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the European Commission has drafted a staff working paper on ‘More and Better Education in Developing Countries’, http://ec.europa.eu/development/icenter/repository/SEC2010_0121_EN.pdf) and is in the midst of drawing up other thematic papers on health, food security, gender...
Development cooperation is in crisis. Effectiveness, empowerment by recipient states and new synergies are all challenges to which development actors must respond. Who will take the lead in pursuing a new policy? A seminar organised by Belgian Technical Cooperation (BTC) on 25 January 2010 and attended by senior European Commission officials and cooperation agencies from Denmark, the United...
Off target: EU member states’ aid spending
European Union (EU) member states are not on track to reach the target of an average 0.51 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI) to be spent on Official Development Assistance (ODA) by 2010, says a new review of the Paris-based Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The target was set in 2005 by 15 EU member states as an...
The poorest and most vulnerable developing countries came to Copenhagen knowing they had the least to offer and the most at stake. They came away with little.
“We fought for everything we came out with and as you can see we didn’t come out with much”, Dessima Williams, representing Grenada and the Alliance Of Small Island States (AOSIS), told 192 nations in the early...
EU member states are becoming increasingly inward-looking and eager to promote aid policies which prioritise foreign or domestic policy objectives. These are the main conclusions of the annual AidWatch report by CONCORD, released on May 19th in Brussels.
Despite being the world’s biggest aid donor, only nine countries met their EU aid targets in 2010, with the bloc as a whole falling...
With €53.8 billion (0.43% of its GDP), the European Union’s official development aid (ODA) reached a record level in 2010, up by €4.5 billion on 2009. “The EU remains incontestably the world’s leading donor,” declared Development Commissioner Andris Piebalgs, while admitting that it has failed to honour its pledge to jointly allocate 0.56% of its gross domestic...
After 20 turbulent centuries of history, Iceland - an island that came into being just 20 million years ago by virtue of a whim of nature - straddling the rift between the American and Eurasian continental plates - is expected to join the European Union within the next two years. That’s provided its population, shaken by the 2008 financial crisis, gives its approval.
The country’s...
The pilot phase to set up a European Voluntary Humanitarian Aid Corps was launched in Budapest, Hungary on 17 June. The vision of an EU voluntary corps is set out in the EU’s Treaty of Lisbon which came into force in 2009.
After extensive consultation with stakeholders on the design of the future corps, EU officials say that this test phase will build on existing volunteering schemes...
EU public gives big ‘yes’ to development aid
Nine out of ten European Union (EU) citizens say that aid for developing countries is very important or fairly important, according to the EU’s ‘Eurobarometer’ poll on ‘Europeans, development aid and the Millennium Development Goals’. It canvassed 26,500 EU citizens across all 27 EU Member States in June...
‘Train4dev’*, the informal donors’ network, is now in its eighth year. Time to make an appraisal. Overall, it has proved positive.
Used to acting according to their own priorities and cultural model rather than coordinating their efforts, cooperation agencies in the North are now trying to speak with a single voice. The first stage is to harmonise their methods and concepts...
In the run up to the September Review conference in New York on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the European Commission has drafted a staff working paper on ‘More and Better Education in Developing Countries’, http://ec.europa.eu/development/icenter/repository/SEC2010_0121_EN.pdf) and is in the midst of drawing up other thematic papers on health, food security, gender...
Development cooperation is in crisis. Effectiveness, empowerment by recipient states and new synergies are all challenges to which development actors must respond. Who will take the lead in pursuing a new policy? A seminar organised by Belgian Technical Cooperation (BTC) on 25 January 2010 and attended by senior European Commission officials and cooperation agencies from Denmark, the United...
Off target: EU member states’ aid spending
European Union (EU) member states are not on track to reach the target of an average 0.51 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI) to be spent on Official Development Assistance (ODA) by 2010, says a new review of the Paris-based Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The target was set in 2005 by 15 EU member states as an...
The poorest and most vulnerable developing countries came to Copenhagen knowing they had the least to offer and the most at stake. They came away with little.
“We fought for everything we came out with and as you can see we didn’t come out with much”, Dessima Williams, representing Grenada and the Alliance Of Small Island States (AOSIS), told 192 nations in the early...
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