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New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition: Part 2
The 2013 G8 Summit in Lough Erne is just two months away. At the Nutrition for Growth event on June 8th in London, held just a week before the G8 Summit, the international community will once again focus on the G8’s New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition. In a follow up to its launch at last year’s G8 summit in Camp David, it is expected that the New Alliance will be expanded to additional countries and enhanced with several key changes. The New Alliance Leadership Council meetings in Cape Town, South Africa in May provide the first opportunity for progress to be examined and new changes to be unveiled. More
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New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition: Part 1
The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition (“New Alliance”) was born out of the Camp David Summit of the G-8 in May 2012. It is an initiative that aims to lift 50 million people out of poverty over the next 10 years by using a collective approach of pro-poor policies committed to by African governments, substantial private sector investment in order to increase agriculture productivity and farmer incomes, and donor governments aligning behind country-led plans (i.e. CAADP). More
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1000 Days to Go: Accelerating the Fight against Extreme Poverty
On April 5, 2013, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) deadline will be just 1,000 days away. The world has entered the final leg of its momentous 15-year journey to halve extreme poverty, reduce child mortality by two-thirds, reverse the tide against HIV/AIDS and malaria, and ensure that more people have access to basic services, such as primary education and safe drinking water. More
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Summit in Sight: The G8 and Africa from Gleneagles to Lough Erne
In 2005, following a massive global campaign, G8 leaders agreed an ambitious package of support to accelerate development in Africa. Eight years on, our analysis shows the galvanising effect of the Gleneagles commitments. African leadership, with G8 support, has resulted in major progress in the fight against extreme poverty. Increases in financing for development, through aid, debt relief and a huge rise in domestically generated resources, have had a direct impact on the lives of some of the poorest people in the world. More
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Growing Opportunity: Measuring Investment in Africa Agriculture
Agriculture could be a catalyst for economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa, but lack of funding for strategic investment risks undermining progress. Despite agriculture’s significant contribution to the economy of most African countries, investment in infrastructure, technology, and market development for the sector remains very low. More
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Open for Development
This spring, the UN is meeting to decide the framework for ending global poverty. The agenda set at that meeting will affect the livelihoods, the health, and the futures of millions of the world’s poorest people. But right now, those people are not involved in that agenda-setting process. Worse yet, they don’t even know it’s happening. ONE believes that the path to ending extreme poverty must be one that factors in the voices of those actually living in extreme poverty. More
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The Beginning of the End? Tracking Global Commitments on AIDS
ONE's accountability report monitors progress made towards the beginning of the end of AIDS. Specifically, the report tracks progress made on three key targets - the virtual elimination of mother-to-child transmission, 15 million people on treatment, and the drastic reduction of new HIV infections - and assesses the political, programmatic, and financial contributions made by a variety of stakeholders. More
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Putting Nutrition on the Agenda
How can it be that 40% of Africa's children are so chronically malnourished by the age of five that they wil lnever fully thrive, physically recover or mentally develop - a statistic that has not improved in two decades, despite so much other development progress? More
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ONE’s asks of the Mexico G20
At the G20 in Mexico ONE is encouraging concerted action on three important issues: transparency and accountability; infrastructure and energy; and agriculture, nutrition and food security. The G20 has discussed these issues over the last few years and made a number of commitments to address them. At the Los Cabos Summit, it is critical that the G20 acts upon these commitments in an accountable and timely fashion. More
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Financial reporting requirements for extractive industries within the proposals to amend the Accounting Directive
European negotiations for a Directive that would require oil, gas, mining and forestry companies to ‘Publish What They Pay’ governments around the world are coming to a head. Leaders across Europe and Members of the European Parliament are setting their policy on a law that could help millions escape poverty. The Council has announced their position already, but it requires urgent improvement in four key areas. More
