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The digital revolution has caught up fast in the world of African creativity! Over the last ten years, the increase in African Internet users has been 16 times greater than that of North American users. Alongside this, a growing number of African organisations and cultural operators are creating and participating in websites and social networks, offering an ever-increasing range of resources to...
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...
Structured dialogue with civil society fosters South-South cooperation. The potential for South-South cooperation took centre stage on 31 May 2011 at a public meeting held at the European Parliament on the theme ‘Organising Inclusive Ownership – The EU's Structured Dialogue to strengthen cooperation with Non State Actors in the South’.
Cooperation between Benin, Bhutan and...
Interview with David Matongo, Co-chair of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly After 24 years as chairman, or managing director, David Matongo continued to work in business whilst launching a political career in his native Zambia.
Matongo is currently Chairman and Director of David and Dash Holdings Limited and is director or member of the boards of many local and international bodies. He...
Samoan national, Tuiloma Neroni Slade, became Secretary General of the Secretariat of the 16-nation Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) in August 2008. Formerly a judge at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands, he was his country’s Ambassador in various locations and was previously Samoa’s Attorney General and senior legal adviser with the Commonwealth Secretariat...
Geert Heikens, a Dutch national, is the EU’s Ambassador in Guyana, a position he has held for nearly four years. The Georgetown Delegation also covers relations with Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Aruba and the former Dutch Antilles as well with the CARICOM Secretariat .He was formerly the EU’s Ambassador in Eritrea. The bulk of the EU’s 10th European Development Fund (...
A move to make mental health an integral part of European development assistance was flagged at an international conference of the Netherlands-based Global Initiative on Psychiatry (GIP), held in the European Parliament on 14 October.
It was part of an awareness raising project funded by the European Union on the issue targeting the EU’s newest member states; Lithuania, Romania and...
The transformative effect of the Haitian Diaspora
Following the 12 January earthquake an unknown number of Haitians left the country. They swelled an already sizeable Diaspora of 2.5M people who contribute 25 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). It is a contribution to the Haitian economy based on links between migrants and their origins. These links with the mother country in turn...
They were very probably the first to walk the land of Southern Africa more than 30,000 years ago. The San - whom Dutch settlers much later called Bosjesmans ("bushmen") - were hunter-gatherers. About 2,500 years ago, some of these hunters became livestock farmers. These Khoikhois, moved southward, as far as the Cape of Good Hope. They shared a common language with the bushmen,...
The digital revolution has caught up fast in the world of African creativity! Over the last ten years, the increase in African Internet users has been 16 times greater than that of North American users. Alongside this, a growing number of African organisations and cultural operators are creating and participating in websites and social networks, offering an ever-increasing range of resources to...
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...
Structured dialogue with civil society fosters South-South cooperation. The potential for South-South cooperation took centre stage on 31 May 2011 at a public meeting held at the European Parliament on the theme ‘Organising Inclusive Ownership – The EU's Structured Dialogue to strengthen cooperation with Non State Actors in the South’.
Cooperation between Benin, Bhutan and...
Interview with David Matongo, Co-chair of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly After 24 years as chairman, or managing director, David Matongo continued to work in business whilst launching a political career in his native Zambia.
Matongo is currently Chairman and Director of David and Dash Holdings Limited and is director or member of the boards of many local and international bodies. He...
Samoan national, Tuiloma Neroni Slade, became Secretary General of the Secretariat of the 16-nation Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) in August 2008. Formerly a judge at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands, he was his country’s Ambassador in various locations and was previously Samoa’s Attorney General and senior legal adviser with the Commonwealth Secretariat...
Geert Heikens, a Dutch national, is the EU’s Ambassador in Guyana, a position he has held for nearly four years. The Georgetown Delegation also covers relations with Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Aruba and the former Dutch Antilles as well with the CARICOM Secretariat .He was formerly the EU’s Ambassador in Eritrea. The bulk of the EU’s 10th European Development Fund (...
A move to make mental health an integral part of European development assistance was flagged at an international conference of the Netherlands-based Global Initiative on Psychiatry (GIP), held in the European Parliament on 14 October.
It was part of an awareness raising project funded by the European Union on the issue targeting the EU’s newest member states; Lithuania, Romania and...
The transformative effect of the Haitian Diaspora
Following the 12 January earthquake an unknown number of Haitians left the country. They swelled an already sizeable Diaspora of 2.5M people who contribute 25 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). It is a contribution to the Haitian economy based on links between migrants and their origins. These links with the mother country in turn...
They were very probably the first to walk the land of Southern Africa more than 30,000 years ago. The San - whom Dutch settlers much later called Bosjesmans ("bushmen") - were hunter-gatherers. About 2,500 years ago, some of these hunters became livestock farmers. These Khoikhois, moved southward, as far as the Cape of Good Hope. They shared a common language with the bushmen,...
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