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of people and groups working for human rights and sustainable
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Global Partnership for Development
30-07-2008
The ASEAN Regional Forum plans for its first ever regional disaster relief exercise in 2009, while calling for greater civil-military coordination. The recent spurt of natural disasters in the region has sparked action for concrete plans of cooperation.
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Image: Damage control / Photo credit: International Federation
25-08-2008
The Indian government has signed a five-year action plan with UNICEF to promote the survival and well-being of its children. The programme will
share the country's burden on health, education, sanitation and AIDS through interventions and partnerships while also ensure special protection to
disadvantaged children.
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04-08-2008
India's Commerce Minister squarely blamed the US for the collapse of WTO trade negotiations in Geneva last week, citing the need to protect farmers' livelihoods in developing countries. Senior journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta analyses the mixed views on the failure of talks.
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Image: Paranjoy Guha Thakurta/ Photo: Google images
Millennium Development Goal 8 aims to build a global partnership for development.
This eighth goal is very important as it complements the other seven. Although it
is essential that developing countries direct their own development and implement
policies to achieve the other seven goals, the eighth goal shows what the world could
do as a ‘community’ to aid this development. The important issues which need immediate
attention to achieve MDG targets are as follow.
Develop further an open, rule-based,
predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system.
Address the special needs of landlocked countries and Small
Island developing States.
Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries
through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable
in the long term.
Develop donor support for and commitment towards good governance, development,
and poverty reduction - both nationally and internationally.
In co-operation with developing countries, develop and implement strategies
for decent and productive work for youth.
Provide access to affordable essential drugs on a sustainable basis to all.
Here the good governance includes support of international organisation, government
policy, active bilateral and multi lateral cooperation, effective participation
and support for common cause.
In co-operation with the private sector, make available the benefits of
new technologies, especially information and communications
Multi-Stakeholder Participation includes active participation of central
government, state government, local government, private sector, CBOs, NGO
and International organisation.
2008-09-05 14:03:21
OECD’s new publication Reaching Our Development Goals: Why Does Aid Effectiveness Matter? provides a practical roadmap for effective utilisation of aid for development. The booklet urges both donors and developing countries to realign their goals and be accountable to the people by improving the quality and quantity of aid.
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OneWorld South Asia''s Seventh
Annual Regional Meeting on February 8-9, 2008, at New Delhi, focused on Southern voices and
perspectives on the Climate Change debate.
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