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The EU closely cooperates with France and the United Kingdom, the only two EU countries with separate aid programmes in PNG; with Australia – the biggest donor to PNG, New Zealand and with multi-lateral agencies. The remoteness of communities, big population growth and a lack of local administrative capacity are all challenges in delivering aid in the country.
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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...
Africa represents the ideal field for testing the procedures of the European Security and Defence Policy. That is the view of Niagalé Bagayoko-Penone, an expert on Security and Development at Sussex University’s Institute for Development Studies (IDS) in the United Kingdom.
It all began with Operation Artemis, the first EU intervention outside its immediate neighbourhood. It was...
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...
Three Caribbean countries: Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago and Cuba have embassies in Abuja and a consular representative in Lagos. For Robert Miller, High Commissioner of Jamaica, "Nigeria offers tremendous opportunities for cooperation with Jamaica. We are trying, for instance, to attract Nigerian investors to Jamaica and promote the export of our packaged food products to Nigeria as well...
David Macrae, a British national, was appointed Ambassador of the European Union’s delegation to Nigeria in May 2010. An economist and specialist in agricultural science, after working at the European Commission Brussels headquarters on cooperation with ACP countries, he acted as Permanent Representative of the EU with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)....
Interview with Dr Martin Uhomoibhi
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The recent holding of free and fair presidential elections, Nigeria’s role in conflict resolution in Africa, its global peace-keeping activities under a United Nations mandate and an average 7 per cent economic growth are all positives. The country is expected to achieve its development goals and become a...
Ten years and thousands of child beneficiaries later, Sylvia Arthur reports on a unique British charity whose aim is to put itself out of business.
When Georgie Fienberg visited Ghana on a gap year almost fifteen years ago, she couldn’t have known the impact it would have on the rest of her life. Not just hers, but those of thousands of children in northern Ghana whose lives she would...
Caribbean tourism has been showing signs of recovery in 2011, following two of the toughest years on record. But while international arrivals have been improving and returning to 2008 levels, visitors have been spending less in a market leading to worries about the sector’s diminishing profits in a still unpredictable global environment.
Tourism in the Caribbean is the region's...
The EU closely cooperates with France and the United Kingdom, the only two EU countries with separate aid programmes in PNG; with Australia – the biggest donor to PNG, New Zealand and with multi-lateral agencies. The remoteness of communities, big population growth and a lack of local administrative capacity are all challenges in delivering aid in the country.
France...
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...
Africa represents the ideal field for testing the procedures of the European Security and Defence Policy. That is the view of Niagalé Bagayoko-Penone, an expert on Security and Development at Sussex University’s Institute for Development Studies (IDS) in the United Kingdom.
It all began with Operation Artemis, the first EU intervention outside its immediate neighbourhood. It was...
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...
Three Caribbean countries: Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago and Cuba have embassies in Abuja and a consular representative in Lagos. For Robert Miller, High Commissioner of Jamaica, "Nigeria offers tremendous opportunities for cooperation with Jamaica. We are trying, for instance, to attract Nigerian investors to Jamaica and promote the export of our packaged food products to Nigeria as well...
David Macrae, a British national, was appointed Ambassador of the European Union’s delegation to Nigeria in May 2010. An economist and specialist in agricultural science, after working at the European Commission Brussels headquarters on cooperation with ACP countries, he acted as Permanent Representative of the EU with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)....
Interview with Dr Martin Uhomoibhi
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The recent holding of free and fair presidential elections, Nigeria’s role in conflict resolution in Africa, its global peace-keeping activities under a United Nations mandate and an average 7 per cent economic growth are all positives. The country is expected to achieve its development goals and become a...
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Ten years and thousands of child beneficiaries later, Sylvia Arthur reports on a unique British charity whose aim is to put itself out of business.
When Georgie Fienberg visited Ghana on a gap year almost fifteen years ago, she couldn’t have known the impact it would have on the rest of her life. Not just hers, but those of thousands of children in northern Ghana whose lives she would...
Caribbean tourism has been showing signs of recovery in 2011, following two of the toughest years on record. But while international arrivals have been improving and returning to 2008 levels, visitors have been spending less in a market leading to worries about the sector’s diminishing profits in a still unpredictable global environment.
Tourism in the Caribbean is the region's...
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