Full coverage: Development

10.05.2005 The World Bank should play a more central role of leadership in promoting universal access to reproductive health as a necessary, efficient and just means of achieving all the Millennium Development Goals, according to a new report from the Global Health Council.

07.05.2005 Në maj të këtij viti ka filluar të realizohet plani i aksionit për veprim që ka të bëjë me krijimin e klimës për kthim dhe re-integrim të grupeve në fokus përkatësisht bashkësive egjiptiane dhe rome të lagjes “7 Shtatori” në Pejë, nga ana e organizatave joqeveritare: “Syri i Vizionit”, nga Peja, “Vision 02” nga Istogu dhe Helping People in Need nga Rozhaja.

06.05.2005 Na prviot den od dvodnevnata konferencija ‘Izgradba na demokratijata odozdola – iskustva so zastapuvanjeto na Kosovo’ vo organizacija na Proektot za zastapuvanje na NVO od Kosovo (KNAP) na koja ucestvuvase i kosovskiot premier Bajram Kosimi, bese receno deka vladata visoko ja ocenuva sorabotkata so nevladinite organizacii kako partneri vo politickata, ekonomskata i posebno vo oblasta na upravuvanjeto.

06.05.2005 Prvog dana dvodnevne konferencije "Izgradnja demokratije odozdo - iskustva sa zastupnistvom na Kosovu" u organizaciji Projekta zastupnistva za NVO sa Kosova (KNAP) na kojoj je učestvovao i kosovski premijer Bajram Kosumi, rečeno je da vlada visoko ceni saradnju sa nevladinim organizacijama kao partnerima u političkoj, ekonomskoj i posebno u oblasti upravljanja.

06.05.2005 The east Indian state of Orissa has released its first Human Development Report for year 2004 with support from the Planning Commission of India, the Government of India and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Access the document in PDF format.

06.05.2005 Venezuela’s burgeoning participatory democracy--based on people’s power--is helping development projects to flourish and especially benefit minority groups in inaccessible places. Nora Castañeda, president of Venezuela’s Women’s Development Bank explains to In Motion Magazine how the institution gives women sovereignty from poverty.

05.05.2005 With the help of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Senegal is hoping to introduce more expensive but more effective drugs nationwide in a bid to improve the country's success in fighting malaria. An earlier 2003 programme was discontinued due to poor implementation.

05.05.2005 Ousamane Sy, a Malian development specialist, has used the traditional African communication network of village elders to bolster democratic and locally based governing systems across his home country, forming a model for good governance that has drawn praise from far and wide. He is the recipient of this year’s King Baudouin International Development Prize.

05.05.2005 Ministerstvoto za zivotna sredina i prostorno planiranje raboti na nov zakon za zivotna sredina, so koj ke se izdavaat dozvoli za rabota na najgolemite zagaduvaci. Vo noviot Zakon sekoj iden sopstvenik vo tekot na pregovorite za kupuvanje na kapacitetot go ureduva prasanjeto za ekoloskata odgovornost.

04.05.2005 Whilst poor countries desperately need improvements in the world trading system, ministers meeting in Paris this week seem likely to stumble over the mathematics of the intricately protective measures currently imposed by rich countries.

04.05.2005 The Bush administration announced in 2000 that it would channel U.S. foreign aid to well-governed developing countries through a mechanism called the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA). As the first awards were finally made last week, the Center for Global Development has launched a barometer to track the effectiveness and draw conclusions from the MCA.

03.05.2005 Over 7,000 women in rural Chipata (Eastern province of Zambia) are to benefit from agricultural marketing information project called the Chipata Women’s Mobile SMS project initiated by One World Africa (OWA) and Celtel Zambia.

03.05.2005 A most unusual opening act for a superstar rock band, Mercy Corps founder Dan O'Neill urged U2 concertgoers in Seattle last week to seize the potential each one of us has to make a difference in the world--one life at a time. "I applaud Bono, and all others like him, who have used their celebrity and their resources to rock our houses and send a wake-up call to the world about the things in this life that matter most," O'Neill said, urging rock fans to get involved.

02.05.2005 Nel suo discorso a Scampia per la celebrazione del Primo Maggio, il Segretario generale della Cisl Savino Pezzotta ha ricordato specificamente la "Coalizione mondiale contro la povertà". "La campagna internazionale di lotta alla povertà vede il sindacato in prima fila. Il braccialetto bianco, che oggi porto al polso, un simbolo mondiale di questo impegno, per noi significa avere ogni momento coscienza che quel miliardo e 400 milioni di donne e uomini senza lavoro dignitoso devono avere un futuro, una istruzione e il rispetto dei loro diritti, in un mondo dove anche la guerra sia un ricordo doloroso del passato" - ha detto Pezzotta. Anche Claudio Bisio ha indossato il braccialetto della Campagna durante il Concerto del Primo Maggio a Roma.

02.05.2005 The Canadian Council for International Co-operation, Canada's coalition to end global poverty, has responded to the budget deal negotiated between the governing Liberals and the opposition NDP. "With this deal, the NDP has pushed the Liberals closer to meeting Canada's international aid obligations," said CCIC President and CEO, Gerry Barr. Unfortunately, he said, "we're still falling short."

02.05.2005 Celebrities including Jane Goodall, Lenny Kravitz, and Elie Wiesel are among those who have lent their voices to the Millennium Campaign to attack poverty at its roots. Find out how you can lend your voice to the campaign to hold governments around the world to account for their promises to do more to fight poverty and suffering.

02.05.2005 Paul Wolfowitz's announcement last week that Africa should be the world's top priority likely surprised many in the U.S. and abroad who know the U.S. official as a defense hawk with a laser-like focus on the Middle East. European governments, which have been lobbying for more attention to Africa for years, are probably some of the most pleasantly surprised.

01.05.2005 RIO DE JANEIRO, May 1 (IPS) - The massive march that will set out this Sunday - May Day - and reach the Brazilian capital on May 17 has been organised by the Landless Workers Movement (MST) to protest the government's economic policies, which are an obstacle to agrarian reform, the activists say.