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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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