| Governance and Human Rights |
| Statement of the International Conference on the Cancellation of Illegitimate Debts |
Participants
29 May 2006
The burden of debt is indeed one of the most urgent issues of our time. The campaign to cancel odious and illegitimate debt is just the start of our overall efforts to cancel the debt and end foreign domination of Southern economies. |
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| Pure harassment: DOJ bans Rep. Satur Ocampo from attending Jakarta forum |
IBON Foundation, Inc.
IBON Foundation, Inc.
26 May 2006
Independent research group IBON Foundation denounces the order issued by the Department of Justice (DOJ) preventing Bayan Muna Party-list representative Satur Ocampo to travel to Jakarta, Indonesia to speak in an international forum. |
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| Statement of concern over human rights violations in projects funded by Japan’s ODA in the Philippines |
Philippine Aidwatch Network
Philippine Aidwatch Network
08 Mar 2006
The Philippine Aidwatch Network is calling the attention of the honorable members of the National Diet of Japan to the cases of human rights violations being committed allegedly by elements of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in different places in the country where projects funded by Japan’s official development assistance (ODA) are being implemented. We also call their attention to the emerging evidence that resources intended for social development and poverty reduction in the Philippines such as Japan’s ODA are probably being used for the intensified anti-insurgency campaign of the national government under President Gloria Arroyo. |
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| Human rights of tsunami survivors were neglected and abused |
ActionAid International
ActionAid International
02 Feb 2006
A five-country study by international charities ActionAid, PDHRE and HIC-HLRN has revealed how, after the December 2004 tsunami, governments frequently ignored human rights principles and failed to protect survivors from discrimination, land grabbing and violence. |
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| Donor concern over IMF cap on aid increases |
Joseph Hanlon
Joseph Hanlon (j.hanlon@open.ac.uk)
26 Jan 2006
In a repeat of a crisis a decade ago, donors now fear that the IMF is blocking aid increases to Mozambique. |
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| Input for Implementation Forum of HLF II |
Antonio Tujan, Jr.
30 Apr 2005
This article is the input made by RoA chair, Antonio Tujan, Jr. during the High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness held in April 2005 in Paris. |
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| Reforming Aid To Enhance Its Effectiveness |
Coordination SUD
Coordination SUD
28 Feb 2005
Coordination SUD position paper on the 2nd High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness
Paris / 28 February - 2 March 2005
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| At the table or in the kitchen? CIDA’s new aid strategies, developing country ownership and donor conditionality1 |
Brian Tomlinson (CCIC Policy Team) and Pam Foster (Coordinator, Halifax Initiative)
Canadian Council for International Cooperation and Halifax Initiative
01 Sep 2004
Program Based Approaches are providing donors such as CIDA with a seat at the policy dialogue table, but the “policy cooks� in the kitchen, the World Bank and the IMF, remain the same. |
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| Millenium Development Goals |
| Paris Declaration of Aid Effectiveness |
(see signatories)
14 Feb 2007
This declaration on aid effectiveness was crafted during the High Level Forum in Paris from 28 Feb - 2 Mar 2005. |
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| NGO Statement on Aid Effectiveness |
(see signatories)
14 Feb 2007
This statement from NGOs concerning aid effectiveness was released on 25 February 2005. |
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| The Politics of the Millennium Development Goals: Contributing to Strategies for Ending Poverty? Part One: The Politics of MDGs and Poverty Eradication |
Brian Tomlinson, Canadian Council for International Cooperation
Canadian Council for International Cooperation
31 May 2005
A policy background paper by Brian Tomlinson on the politics of MDGs and poverty eradication. This is part 1 of 3. |
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| The Politics of the Millennium Development Goals: Contributing to Strategies for Ending Poverty? Part Two: Financing the MDGs Through a Global Partnership for Development |
Brian Tomlinson, Canadian Council for International Cooperation
Canadian Council for International Cooperation
31 May 2005
A policy background paper by Brian Tomlinson on the politics of MDGs and poverty eradication. This is part 2 of 3. |
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| The Politics of the Millennium Development Goals: Contributing to Strategies for Ending Poverty? Part Three: Canada and the Global Partnership for Development (Goal Eight) |
Brian Tomlinson, Canadian Council for International Cooperation
Canadian Council for International Co-operation
31 May 2005
A Policy Background Paper by Brian Tomlinson, CCIC, on the politics of MDGs and poverty eradication. This is part 3 of 3. |
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| Millennium Development Goals |
Joseph S. Yu, IBON Foundation, Inc.
IBON Facts and Figures
15 Oct 2004
This discussion on the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) was published in IBON Facts and Figures, 15 October 2004. |
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| Security and Conflict Resolution |
| The impact of the War on Terror on aid flows |
John Cosgrave for ActionAid
ActionAid
11 Apr 2007
The war on terror had had an impact on aid and is undermining development policy. Aid decisions are increasingly being weighted in terms of security and foreign policy rather than on humanitarian goals. |
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| Petition regarding the provision of weapons using Japanese ODA |
Japanese NGOs
PARC
13 Jun 2006
Japanese government decided to provide patrol ships to Indonesia using ODA money.
The following is a statement from Japanese NGOs including PARC.
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| Security, Conflict and Development |
Michael Pugh
24 Jun 2005
Paper presented during the RoA Global Meeting 2005 |
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| On Failed, Failing, Weak and Collapsed States |
Jan Ruyssenaars, Novib-Oxfam Netherlands
24 Jun 2005
Paper presented during the RoA Global Meeting 2005 |
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| Stop all foreign aid to the Philippine military, End the repression and killings of Filipino activists! |
Philippine Aidwatch Network
Philippine Aidwatch Network
07 Jun 2005
The Philippine Aidwatch Network expresses serious alarm by the unabated killings of political activists all over the Philippines, a total of 31 leaders and members of progressive party list groups, people’s organizations, and human rights groups including lawyers and church people. |
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| Multiple security challenges in the 21th century: Human Security, failed states, and terrorism (About civilian and military means of meeting new security challenges) |
Jan Ruyssenaars, Novib-Oxfam International
14 Dec 2004
Paper presented during the RoA Global Meeting 2005 |
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| Relief and Rehabilitation |
| Time to call for debt relief one year after the tsunami |
Ivan A. Hadar
Indonesian Institute for Democracy Education (IDE)
23 Jan 2006
It is time for the government of Indonesia to become more proactive in seeking debt relief, since some creditor countries offered debt moratoriums, reductions and cancellations for countries affected by the largest natural disaster in living memory. |
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| Aid Effectiveness |
| Towards Achieving Authentic National Ownership |
Antonio Tujan Jr
31 Mar 2008
The aid system (or ‘non-system’ would be more precise) faces tremendous challenges in less than a century of its existence. |
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| Multi-stakeholder national consultation on CSOs and aid effectiveness |
VOICE
05 Feb 2008
Multi-stakeholder national consultation on CSOs and aid effectiveness, Dhaka, September 10, 2007 |
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| Inter-regional multi-stakeholder dialogue on aid effectiveness |
05 Feb 2008
Inter-regional multi-stakeholder dialogue on aid effectiveness, Pamodzi Hotel – Lusaka, Zambia,
16 – 19 October 2007 |
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| National Consultation workshop on Aid Effectiveness |
05 Feb 2008
National Consultation workshop on Aid Effectiveness, Dar es Salaam International Conference Centre, Tanzania
9 August 2007 |
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| Primer on Development and Aid Effectiveness |
IBON International
IBON International
04 Feb 2008
This Primer on Development and Aid Effectiveness is primarily meant to explain the aid effectiveness agenda in the overall context of development issues and concerns such as debt, debt cancellation, and increasing ODA for poverty reduction and achieving the Millennium Development Goals. The intention of this primer is to address the perspectives and concerns of grassroots and membership based civil society organizations (CSOs). |
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| Overview Report: Asia (South and West) Regional Workshop on CSOs and Aid Effectiveness |
Secretariat
30 Jan 2008
Documentation of Main Points Discussed
Kathmandu, Nepal
October 29-November 1, 2007 |
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| Programme: Regional Workshop on CSOs and Aid Effectiveness, Asia (South and West) |
Secretariat
30 Jan 2008
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| Programme: Regional Workshop on CSOs and Aid Effectiveness |
Secretariat
29 Jan 2008
Programme: Regional Workshop on CSOs and Aid Effectiveness
Central Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific |
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| HANOI Regional Workshop on Aid Effectiveness |
Secretariat
29 Jan 2008
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| Report on Gender Issues in the Kathmandu Consultations on CSOs and Aid Effectiveness |
Secretariat
29 Jan 2008
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| Overview Report on the Hanoi Consultations for East Asia, Central Asia and the Pacific (October 9 - 12, 2007) |
Brian Tomlinson, Vice-Chairperson, Reality of Aid Network
29 Jan 2008
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| Aid Data for the Philippines |
Compiled by Alexander Miles Jones,
IBON Foundation
Reality of Aid
08 Jan 2008
Aid Data for the Philippines was compiled by Alexander Miles Jones for the RoA network during his internship in 2007. |
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| Civil society and Aid Effectiveness at centre stage |
Anabel Cruz, Director of Communication and Development Institute (ICD), Uruguay and Chair of the Boa
07 Nov 2007
Next year will see an important effort to ensure coherence between different parts of society, including civil society, in development aid. There are several preparatory meetings taking place to prepare for this event. Anabel Cruz, who commenced her term as CIVICUS Board Chairperson in May 2007, attended a recent meeting organised in the Netherlands to explore some of the issues that will be addressed at the Accra, Ghana meeting next year. She shares with us her thoughts below regarding some of the key issues that will need to be addressed if aid is to be more effective and to ensure that the poorest citizens in the world can benefit from aid flows. |
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| Ensure accountability of donors to make foreign aid effective, Development experts tell seminar |
thedailystar.net
thedailystar.net
11 Sep 2007
National Seminar on CSOs and aid
effectiveness held in Dhaka |
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| The Chinese Aid System |
Carol Lancaster [1]
Center for Global Development
01 Jul 2007
China has become a major source of foreign aid in Asia, Latin America and especially in Africa.Chinese aid has become a source of concern to Western aid agencies—will Chinese aiddiscourage needed economic and political reforms in African countries? Will it burden poorcountries with debt—a burden from which many have only just escaped with the debt cancellationpolicies adopted by many aid agencies? This CGD Essay explores questions about Chinese aid—how large it is and how fast it is growing; how decisions are made on how much aid is providedeach year; which countries receive it and how much they get; how the aid is managed within theChinese government and how it is evaluated. The Chinese are clearly set to play a major role inaid-giving worldwide, and the aid-giving governments of Europe, North American and Japanshould expand lines of communication and, to the extent possible, collaboration with the Chinese. |
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