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<title>Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, Accra, Ghana, September 2-4, 2008</title>
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<title><![CDATA[Three days turned into 18 months for poor Timor-Leste]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/accra2008_2/currentNew.aspx?new=1127</link>
<author><![CDATA[By Zahira Kharasany and Francis Kokutse]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Accra, Sept 5 (IPS) A government minister from the world’s youngest nation – and also one of its poorest – told a meeting of powerful global bankers today exactly how hard it is to extract aid from rich countries.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The poor and their donors agree aid agenda]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/accra2008_2/currentNew.aspx?new=1126</link>
<author><![CDATA[By Francis Kokutse]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Accra, Sept 5 (IPS) Delegates from both developing and developed countries yesterday adopted an Accra Agenda For Action (AAA) as a blueprint to provide a guide to improve the way aid is given and spent.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why the richest continent is also the poorest]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/accra2008_2/currentNew.aspx?new=1125</link>
<author><![CDATA[By Miriam Mannek]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Accra, Sept 5 (IPS) The ecological impact of natural resource exploitation on the lives of the poor in Africa and other regions is being not addressed sufficiently in aid effectiveness and development discussions, aid experts say.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Late aid threatening democracies]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/accra2008_2/currentNew.aspx?new=1124</link>
<author><![CDATA[Francis Kokutse]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Accra, Sep 4 (IPS) The President of Ghana, host to a global aid meet, told gathered ministers here today delays by rich nations in releasing aid money were threatening democratic governments in poor countries.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Final document: Yes, but...]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/accra2008_2/currentNew.aspx?new=1118</link>
<author><![CDATA[Dipankar De Sarkar]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[“What we have is nice, slightly fuzzy and positive language, but there is no monitorable timetable-bound commitment.”]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What to do about bad regimes]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/accra2008_2/currentNew.aspx?new=1115</link>
<author><![CDATA[Francis Kokutse]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Aid is supposed to promote human rights. And human rights are supposed to make aid more effective. But what do you do when governments refuse to act?]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[No alignment without a focus on poverty eradication]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/accra2008_2/currentNew.aspx?new=1123</link>
<author><![CDATA[Zahira Kharsany]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Alignment calls for donors to support the recipient country’s national development strategies, institutions and procedures to alleviate poverty within the recipient country.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Blazing a gender-budgeting trail]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/accra2008_2/currentNew.aspx?new=1116</link>
<author><![CDATA[Miriam Mannak]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[The Global MDG3 Champion Torch is a Danish initiative launched in 2007 to strengthen the commitment of governments and donor organisations to promote gender equality and women empowerment – third in the list of Millennium Development Goals.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[War on terror skewing war on poverty]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/accra2008_2/currentNew.aspx?new=1114</link>
<author><![CDATA[Zahira Kharsany]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for the majority of the world’s poorest countries. But it is Asia that gets most of the aid. That’s because the money is going to countries experiencing conflict.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Climate change: caused by the rich, hitting the poor]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/accra2008_2/currentNew.aspx?new=1113</link>
<author><![CDATA[Zahira Kharsany]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[“The world is confronted by an alarming paradox. The poorest countries - who are not to blame - are suffering from climate change that has come about [from actions] by the developed world.”]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why Paris Declaration might not be effective]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/accra2008_2/currentNew.aspx?new=1121</link>
<author><![CDATA[Arthur Okemba/AWC]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Officials from various African governments accused donors of making it difficult to produce results using donor money. 
Donors ‘pocket’ aid.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Weaving a future]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/accra2008_2/currentNew.aspx?new=1117</link>
<author><![CDATA[Lauren Vopni/IPS]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Peace baskets bring hope to Rwandan women]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Imbalance in project ownership]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/accra2008_2/currentNew.aspx?new=1122</link>
<author><![CDATA[Duncan Mboyah/AWC]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[During a roundtable forum dubbed Country Ownership — Whose Ownership? Whose Leadership? participants asked donors and development partners to refocus efforts on improving genuine mutual accountability.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Only four countries have made progress]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/accra2008_2/currentNew.aspx?new=1120</link>
<author><![CDATA[Duncan Mboyah/AWC]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Three years since the Paris Declaration was signed by 56 countries progress appears dim and far between.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Statistics must be used to measure aid effectiveness]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/accra2008_2/currentNew.aspx?new=1119</link>
<author><![CDATA[Ruth Omukhango/AWC]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[A parallel event organised by the Statistics for Development in the 21st Century (PARIS 21) highlighted the importance of good statistics for measuring the key pillars of the Paris Declaration.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Institute rule to govern division of labour in aid processes]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/accra2008_2/currentNew.aspx?new=1112</link>
<author><![CDATA[Judy Waguma/AWC]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[“Donors need to align themselves through this framework in the division of labour and hook themselves to these practices.”]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Incorporate gender principle on aid conditionalities]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/accra2008_2/currentNew.aspx?new=1111</link>
<author><![CDATA[Duncan Mboyah/AWC]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Equality are calling on donors and governments to include gender as one of the principles in the new aid modalities.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Vulnerable group and climate change]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/accra2008_2/currentNew.aspx?new=1110</link>
<author><![CDATA[Ama Achiaa Amankwah/AWC]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[The majority in Africa — who are the poor women — bear the brunt of the effects of climate change yet they least contribute to it.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Finding ideas in the marketplace]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/accra2008_2/currentNew.aspx?new=1109</link>
<author><![CDATA[Francis Kokutse]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Venture out of the Accra Convention Centre and its Akwaaba! for High Level Forum participants and you could find a marketplace of ideas of a different kind.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Aid the poor...]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/accra2008_2/currentNew.aspx?new=1104</link>
<author><![CDATA[Miriam Mannak]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[In what is turning out to be hard-fought negotiations between rich and poor nations, more than 1,000 government and civil society delegates gathered in the Ghanaian capital Tuesday to agree the best ways to deliver and administer aid.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CSOs call for a change in agenda]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/accra2008_2/currentNew.aspx?new=1105</link>
<author><![CDATA[Zahira Kharsany]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[The main focus by the delegates at the parallel forum was the ideology of conditionality of aid and the need for accountability and transparency between donors, countries and CSOs.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[In war and in peace, aid eludes women]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/accra2008_2/currentNew.aspx?new=1093</link>
<author><![CDATA[Francis Kokutse]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Aid is bypassing women. It’s not reaching them in Darfur, where they are raped and tortured in camps meant to protect them. And its cancellation in post-coup Mauritania is not helping matters.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New kids on the block: China’s aid to Africa]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/accra2008_2/currentNew.aspx?new=1103</link>
<author><![CDATA[Zahira Kharsany]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[“China is, in matter of fact, a big player in aid on the African continent. Almost every country is receiving aid from China.”]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[‘Conditionalities Make Aid Ineffective’]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/accra2008_2/currentNew.aspx?new=1108</link>
<author><![CDATA[Miriam Mannak]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Conditionality means that countries only receive aid when they meet certain criteria – an aspect of aid that has been controversial for decades with many members of civil society keen to see it revised.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Making mutual accountability real]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/accra2008_2/currentNew.aspx?new=1107</link>
<author><![CDATA[Zahira Kharsany]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[After a series of meeting Sunday and Monday aimed at strengthening the agenda of the third High Level Forum, CSOs called for inclusive frameworks that held both donors and receivers accountable for aid.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The case of financing women’s empowerment for reconstruction]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/accra2008_2/currentNew.aspx?new=1102</link>
<author><![CDATA[Rosemary Okello/AWC]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Unless gender issues are in the core of recovery and reconstruction plans, chances are that issues affecting women might be ignored, says UNIFEM.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Political crisis a strain to donor funding in Zimbabwe]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/accra2008_2/currentNew.aspx?new=1100</link>
<author><![CDATA[Kudzai Makombe ]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Zimbabwe, is not among the 115 countries that have signed the Paris Declaration. Yet the country remains in a political crisis and has suffered strained relations with donors.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New aid modalities: Gender issues cry for greater attention]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/accra2008_2/currentNew.aspx?new=1099</link>
<author><![CDATA[Arthur Okemba]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[While civil society organisations welcomed the new order as one that would enhance accountability and ensure result-based approaches in the use of donor money, they had serious reservations with how gender issues would be addressed.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[World Bank’s dial-a-corruption service]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/accra2008_2/currentNew.aspx?new=1098</link>
<author><![CDATA[Francis Kokutse]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[You can call in and give us information. We don’t take corruption lightly at all,” World Bank’s vice-president for Africa, <b>Obiageli Ezekwesili</b> said.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[‘HLF3? Aid? What’s that all about?’]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/accra2008_2/currentNew.aspx?new=1096</link>
<author><![CDATA[Francis Kokutse]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Amid the bustle and clamour of delegates around Accra, most ordinary Ghanaians still wonder what the fuss is about.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Nepal Scrutinises Spending to Cap Gender Gaps]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/accra2008_2/currentNew.aspx?new=1095</link>
<author><![CDATA[Mallika Aryal]]></author>
<description><![CDATA["In rural Nepal, women spend maximum time in agriculture, yet she has no rights over land, she cannot even take loans. Every year, thousands of women die during childbirth, yet in many part of rural Nepal there isn’t even one midwife."]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Align funding to reproductive health plans, say gender advocates]]></title>
<link>http://www.ipsterraviva.net/tv/accra2008_2/currentNew.aspx?new=1094</link>
<author><![CDATA[Arthur Okemba]]></author>
<description><![CDATA[Abortion Mock Tribunal hears of economic, emotional and physical strains young women endure after unsafe abortions.]]></description>
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