Bibliothèque numérique mondiale Bahá'u'lláh Australian Aid Australian Aid is the Australian Government agency responsible for managing Australia's overseas aid program. Australian Aid provides advice and support to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, presently the Hon. Julie Bishop MP on development policy, and planned and coordinated poverty reduction activities in partnership with developing countries. History[edit] The agency saw a variety of names and formats. It also saw repeated cuts to aid contributions during its lifetime, as the level of 0.47% of gross domestic product during the Whitlam years was slashed to 0.33% under the Hawke and Keating governments, and has at times been even lower under the Howard government. In 2005 John Howard committed Australia to double Australian aid to about $4 billion a year by 2010. On 18 December 2008, the William J. Operation[edit] Total Australian Official Development Assistance in 2005-06 was A$2,605 million, not all of it administered by AusAID. Projects[edit] Over the past 40 years: Food aid[edit]
Captured Photo Collection » Earthquake in Haiti Photos Posted Jan 13, 2010 Share This Gallery inShare0 WARNING: This post contains graphic images of dead bodies and injured survivors. (AP) Haitians are piling bodies along the devastated streets of their capital after a powerful earthquake flattened the president’s palace and the main prison, the cathedral, hospitals, schools and thousands of homes. Untold numbers are still trapped. His prime minister, Jean-Max Bellerive, tells CNN: “I believe we are well over 100,000,” while leading senator Youri Latortue tells The Associated Press that 500,000 could be dead. The magnitude-7 quake struck Tuesday afternoon. Some photos are coming out of the country but most photojournalists are just arriving and trying to find ways to transmit the photos. A man covers his mouth as the stench dead bodies fills the area outside near a destroyed building on January 15, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The legs of an earthquake victim are seen lying in street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010.
How Matters / Links & Resources On Aid Effectiveness & Foreign Assistance Reform Organizational Development & Fundraising for Community-Based Organizations Recommended Reading Documentaries on Global Issues Organizations & Networks On Aid Effectiveness & Foreign Assistance Reform Local Aid Reform Initiatives: Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action (ALNAP) Affiliated Network for Social Accountability-Africa – a project of IDASA Africa Platform for Development Effectiveness Aid Data – tracking development finance Aid Effectiveness Portal AidFlows uses visualization to track the sources and uses of aid funding. aidinfo – better information, better aid Aid Watch – just asking that aid benefit the poor Beyond Good Intentions – A ten-part film series (and movement) investigating the effectiveness of international aid The Big Push Forward – Making Space for Fair Assessment for a Fairer World Change.org’s posts on humanitarian relief Civil Society Voices for Better Aid Development Gateway Hawken.
Les "Mardis et Jeudis des Bernardins" - Institut de Paléontologie Humaine Le mardi ou le jeudi, de 20h00 à 21h45, des tables rondes sur des questions de société : 52 minutes de débat suivies de 52 minutes d’échanges avec le public. Retransmission le jour même sur KTO à 20h40 et sur www.collegedes bernardins.fr, en partenariat avec "La Vie". Le COLLEGE DES BERNARDINS et L’INSTITUT DE PALEONTOLOGIE HUMAINE présentent La place de l’Homme dans l’Histoire de l’Univers et de la Vie Emergence de la conscience au COLLEGE DES BERNARDINS 20, rue de Poissy 75005 PARIS Octobre - Novembre - Décembre 2010 19 h à 21 h Dans le cadre des « Mardis des Bernardins » De 20h00 à 21h45 Retransmission sur la chaîne KTO à 20h40 Animé par Christian de Cacqueray retranscription de ces conférences dans l’ouvrage : l’Univers, la vie, l’homme, émergence de la conscience. Mardi 19 octobre 2010 L’homme et l’environnement Olivier Abel, professeur de philosophie éthique à la faculté libre de théologie protestante de Paris. Jean-Claude Deroche, Professeur de physique à la Faculté d’Orsay (Paris-Sud).
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Australia's aid program The Australian Government’s development policy Australian aid: promoting prosperity, reducing poverty, enhancing stability and performance framework Making Performance Count: enhancing the accountability and effectiveness of Australian aid outline key aspects of our aid program. Documents Australia's development policy and performance framework are available in PDF and Word formats. The need for change The world has changed—and our aid program is changing too. Where we work The Australian aid program now focuses more clearly on our Indo-Pacific region. What we do: re-shaping the aid program The purpose of the aid program is to promote Australia’s national interests by contributing to sustainable economic growth and poverty reduction. A strategic framework will guide the re-shaping of Australia’s aid program over coming years. Figure 1: The strategic framework for the aid program: promoting prosperity, reducing poverty, enhancing stability More details on the priority areas: How we deliver aid
U.S. Military Readies Disaster Response to Haiti Quake When an earthquake ravages a country as poor and urbanized as Haiti, it produces the cruelest kind of synergy, as poverty breeds cramped living quarters that are left even more vulnerable by substandard construction work. While U.S. officials weren't issuing estimates of casualties from Tuesday's strong 7.0 earthquake, there was growing concern that pancaked buildings in Port-au-Prince, home to some 2 million people — and Haiti's inability to quickly rescue those who are trapped — could lead to thousands, if not tens of thousands, of fatalities. The U.S. response began with a Navy P-3 Orion based at Comalapa, El Salvador, which flew over the Haitian capital gathering photographic and other intelligence on the extent of the damage. Officials at the Miami-based U.S. Pentagon officials said an initial team of 30 people arrived in Haiti on Wednesday to join the 63 U.S. soldiers who are permanently stationed there.
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The UN International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) was established by the General Assembly (GA res. 57 (I) (1946) to provide emergency assistance to children in war-ravaged countries following World War II. By GA res. 417 (V) (1950), the UN General Assembly charged it with addressing the needs of children in developing countries. GA res. 802 (VIII) (1953) extended UNICEF'S mandate indefinitely, with an emphasis on programmes giving long-term benefits to children everywhere, particularly those in developing countries, and changed the organization's name to the United Nations Children's Fund but retained the UNICEF acronym. The Fund also continued to provide relief and rehabilitation assistance in emergencies. by jerry_jenkins Dec 12