A Summary of ONE’s Position for the 4th High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, Busan MORE
Commitments made at Busan should be carried through and cut across other international forums and initiatives as best practices to guide development activities, improve results in meeting development outcomes in health, education, and agriculture, and speed progress in reducing poverty. MORE
We can make aid more effective through clear and mesaurable commitments on transparency, accountability, and results. MORE
ONE applauds the bipartisan introduction of the Foreign Aid Transparency and Accountability Act of 2012. Its passage will make America's efforts to prevent disease and lift millions out of extreme poverty more effective, accountable, and transparent.
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Today, anti-poverty group ONE issued the following statement on recent news reports on the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria MORE
Today, the Senate passed financial regulation legislation which included the Cardin-Lugar amendment, The Energy Security Through Transparency (ESTT) Act. The amendment requires all companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange to disclose what they pay to foreign governments for extracting resources such as oil and gas, mining materials, gold, and diamonds. The Transparency Act will be a valuable tool to advance good governance and to promote economic growth. MORE
A House Appropriations Subcommittee cut the President's FY2011 request by $4 billion, slashing the primary source of funding for America's foreign assistance programs that deliver critical global health, development, and hunger-fighting efforts. MORE
The final G20 communiqué announced the creation of two working groups to focus on anti-corruption and international development. In expanding its portfolio, the G20 is acknowledging that these factors are inextricably tied to economic health and growth both in the developed and developing world, ONE said. MORE
As the G8 Summit in Muskoka wrapped up and expanded to the larger G20 Summit in Toronto, ONE said that while the global economic situation must be addressed at both Summits, the issue of development and the promises made to the world's poorest must not be forgotten. MORE
In advance of the G8 and G20 Summits in Canada, global anti-poverty group ONE called on leaders to boost momentum towards achieving the anti-poverty Millennium Development Goals and agree to a vigorous maternal and child health initiative that includes critical accountability measures. MORE