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Africa:
Aid Still Matters Once Growth Begins
Guardian Network, 30 May 2012
It is easy to assume that economic growth automatically implies reduced aid dependency, but by doing so we are failing to understand the role aid plays in different contexts. Read more »
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Africa:
Do Aid Campaigns Alienate the Public and Skew the Development Debate?
Guardian Network, 25 June 2012
A new report on attitudes to aid throws down a challenge to policymakers and campaigners in the way they communicate with the public on international development. Read more »
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Africa:
International NGOs And Aid Agencies -Parasites of The Poor?
Fahamu, 11 August 2011
'The perception amongst workers who are trying to make a difference at the grassroots in Zimbabwe is that big aid agencies such as UNICEF and DfID don't engage with communities to… Read more »
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Africa:
China and India - Challenging the Status Quo?
Fahamu, 4 September 2008
'Equality and mutual benefit' are reflected today in Chinese leaders' frequent emphasis on aid as a partnership, not a one way transfer of charity, -quoted in Deborah Brautigam's,… Read more »
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Africa:
Lost in a Haystack - Gender Equality in Aid Effectiveness
Fahamu, 4 September 2008
Early in September 2008 the world will hold another one of its mega gatherings in Accra Ghana - the third high level forum on aid effectiveness. World leaders will convene to… Read more »
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Africa:
Aid Effectiveness - The Question of Mutual Accountability
Fahamu, 4 September 2008
The issue of development cooperation especially aid can be traced back to the United Nations resolution 2626 of 1970 on the international development strategy for the second United… Read more »
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Rwanda:
Sector to Benefit From Rwf 9 Billion UK Funding
New Times, 4 September 2012
The UK government is set to inject Rwf9 billion to fund various projects in the education sector in the country. Read more »
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Zimbabwe:
Monthly Cash for the Poor
The Herald, 6 August 2012
ZIMBABWE has started paying poor families between US$10 and US$25 monthly cash grants, depending on family size, through the Harmonised Social Cash Transfer Scheme. Read more »
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Ghana:
LEAP Gets Donor Support
Ghanaian Chronicle, 12 July 2012
The Minister of Employment and Social Welfare, Moses Asaga, has disclosed to The Chronicle that the World Bank and the Department for International Development (DFID) had made… Read more »
