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Decentralization: A New National Approach that is more Strategic and Comprehensive |
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By host on
9/24/2007
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This success of the MISR project has created an environment where advocacy for more high level work on decentralization is possible. The Prime Minister showed his willingness to have a decentralization vision at the national level. Based on this, UNDP, through the support by its technical expertise (UNCDF), was able to convince the government to adopt a comprehensive approach to decentralization and to reposition its on-going decentralization programme to capture a more strategic and comprehensive national approach. In that context, a mission led by Mr. Aladeen Shawa and Mr. Leonardo Romeo last November engaged with government officials in a dialogue on effective decentralization policies and models providing direct support to implement a comprehensive support programme for Decentralization. At the end, it was able to consolidate interest in the proposed integrated approach and the formulation of a National Decentralization Strategy.
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Mitigating Avian Influenza Risks of Women Micro-entrepreneurs |
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By host on
7/9/2007
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The Avian Flu Initiative will foster Business Development Services (BDS) that create horizontal and vertical linkages between different market actors through the simulation of sustainable commercial transactions that increase micro-enterprise resilience to diseases, improve their performance, access to markets and their ability to compete.
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Six Years After the Millennium Declaration, Aid Levels Should Not Be Falling |
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By host on
4/15/2007
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To have a lasting impact, resources for development must increase and the increases must be sustained if we are to keep the promises that have been made to the world’s poor and achieve the Millennium Development Goals. However, at the midpoint to the target year of 2015 the growth of resources for development has stalled. Development aid, on the rise since 1997, decreased in 2006 by 5 percent stopping what had appeared as a strong upward trend in the face of extreme poverty, particularly in Africa as well as other regions. What is startling is that the lack of sufficient assistance is becoming apparent precisely when an increase in aid is needed to confront issues that disproportionately affect the poorest countries. This includes issues such as climate change, which many are talking about, but too few realize is already affecting the lives of people in the developing world as water availability becomes more unpredictable, with increasing prevalence of droughts, floods and variability of rainfall patterns
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Encouraging Development |
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By host on
4/1/2007
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By bringing together international institutions, local reformers and private partners, the development sector in Egypt is set to finally see some results. Most people know the Chinese proverb about the value of teaching a man to fish rather than giving him one, but there is a similar proverb in Arabic that originates in Egypt: “The noblest charity is to preclude a man from accepting charity, and the best alms are to show and enable a man to dispense with alms.” It appears these old proverbs are finally coming into fruition: In the past three decades, foreign governments and aid agencies have poured money into development projects in Egypt — only to complain that after the donor stops sending money, the project falls apart.
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