Press Releases related to Development Assistance
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ONE Welcomes USAID Administrator Nominee Rajiv Shah
Today, President Obama announced Rajiv Shah as his nominee for Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). After the announcement, David Lane, President and CEO of ONE made the following statement: MORE
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Gates Foundation Launches “Living Proof” Campaign on ONE.org, Spotlighting African Success Stories
ONE today announced it would work closely with The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to launch the Living Proof Project: Investments in Global Health are Working, a multi-year awareness campaign by the Gates Foundation to highlight the extraordinary success of the United States and other G8 government's efforts to improve health around the world. MORE
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New Global Health Initiatives Bolster Smart Efforts Saving Lives in Africa
Anti-poverty group ONE welcomed two announcements today that will bolster smart efforts taking aim at preventable diseases in poor countries: an extra $1 billion in support of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) and a new airline ticket program allowing airline customers to voluntarily contribute $2 each time they fly to help fight HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. MORE
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“Hold G20 Summit in Africa”, anti-poverty group urges
World leaders meeting at the Group of 20 (G20) Summit in Pittsburgh are being urged by the advocacy group ONE to put Africa at the heart of global recovery efforts by agreeing to hold a future summit on the continent in 2010. MORE
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New U.S. Investment in Senegal Aims to Improve Lives, Create Trade, Prevent Hunger
The Republic of Senegal signed a five-year, $540 million compact with the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). The compact is the eleventh-and third largest-to be signed between a sub-Saharan African country and the MCC, which provides assistance to well-governed, low-income countries who develop credible programs for reducing poverty and promoting economic growth MORE
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Child Mortality Drops Worldwide Thanks to Scaled Up, Smart Investments in Global Health
Thanks to scaled up support for simple, relatively inexpensive solutions like anti-malaria mosquito nets, measles vaccinations and vitamin supplements, the number of children dying before their fifth birthdays each year has been cut to the lowest level ever on record, 8.8 million, according to a report released today by Unicef. MORE
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IMF Delivers New Financing to Help Poorest Countries Deal with Downturn
The International Monetary Fund has delivered a significantly improved financing package for the least developed countries, ONE said today. The package includes zero interest rate loans through 2011. It also provides lending capacity of $17 billion through 2014. MORE
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ONE reaction to G8 food security communiqué
The G8's US$20bn agreement to provide support for the world's poorest farmers was welcomed today by advocacy group ONE. The deal was expected to amount to US$15bn over three years, but at the last minute the communiqué announced the figure had risen to US$20bn. The deal also includes significant steps to make progress on the effectiveness of aid for agriculture.
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Keep Africa aid promises and act now to stem hunger, G8 told, or risk global irrelevance
Leaders of the world's eight biggest economies must act this week to rescue their aid promises to Africa, advocacy group ONE said today, including agreeing a special deal for the continent's farmers. MORE
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G7 Finance Ministers: Italy and France must deliver plan to get back on track with Africa promises
G7 Finance Ministers arriving today in Lecce, Italy, must urgently deliver a plan showing how they will meet the promises to Africa they made four years ago at the Gleneagles Summit, global advocacy group ONE said today. MORE