NEWS & EVENTS

This paper sets out and explores the link between donor aid and recipient country budgets, and the role greater transparency about aid can play in improving budget transparency, the quality of budgetary decisions, and accountability systems. The paper goes on to...

Responsible to: AID/WATCH Committee of Management Salary: $52,946 pro rata (15 hours per week)Selection Criteria: -          Ability to inspire potential and current donors with creative approaches to raising funds in...

Prasada Rao, chief of the UNAIDS team for Asia and the Pacific, said Papua New Guinea was the region of most concern across Asia and the Pacific, where generally progress had been achieved in combating the AIDS virus over recent years.But in Papua New Guinea the virus...

A group of farmers and fishermen gather on the shore of Teluk Meranti to discuss what their plan of action will be if the loggers come back. The forest and sea have sustained their sleepy village tucked away on the Kampar Peninsula on Indonesia's lush Sumatra Island...

In December 2008, the head of the small Pacific island state of Tuvalu challenged the notion that low-lying atoll nations must inevitably succumb to the adverse effects of global warming. Prime Minister Apisai Ielemia told the UN climate conference in Poland: 'It is...

People & Planet is published by a partnership of 40 Australian social justice and environment organisations, and raises funds for the work of these organisations in promoting a just, sustainable world.The calendars and diaries make excellent Christmas gifts and...

This includes promotion of Australian business and financial interests as well as national security enhancement. Whilst it is a relatively smaller player in the global donor community, Australia is a leading donor agency in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Officially,...

'For the world's poorest people who spend up to 80 per cent of their household budgets on food, the food price crisis is not over yet,' said Hafez Ghanem of the Food and Agriculture Organisation.Investment in agriculture in developing countries should be a 'global...

Australian Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance, Bob McMullan, said Uganda would receive another 7 billion Uganda shillings ($A4.12 million) through the Australian development assistance program next year.'Under the food security project,...

 In August, two days before the Pacific Islands Forum, the heads of state of the 14 Pacific nations were adamant in saying that they were not ready to negotiate. But by the time the Forum meeting had ended, they had done a complete about turn and agreed to start...

The Forest Investment Program (FIP) will meet for the first time on October 29 in Washington to kickstart the program and discuss the criteria for selecting countries or regions of the world that could benefit most from the effort.Brazil, the Democratic Republic of...

MARK COLVIN: Worldwide food production will have to rise by a staggering 70per cent by the middle of this century if food riots are not to become commonplace.That's the dire warning issued by the United Nations' food agency which says almost 400 million people will...

Published on the eve of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Annual Meetings to be held in Istanbul on 6-7 October, Doing a decent job? IMF policies and decent work in times of crisis, critically examines the situation faced by those most vulnerable in...