Content related to The Millennium Development Goals
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Without ‘additionality’ of climate funds, Copenhagen adds up to nothing
An agreement of $10bn a year in fast track financing for the next three years and $100bn a year by 2020 for poor countries to cope with climate change must come over and above existing aid promises, Africa advocacy group ONE said today. MORE
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Church World Service
Church World Service is the cooperative ministry of 35 Protestant, Orthodox and Anglican denominations working to eradicate hunger and poverty - providing sustainable self-help and development, disaster relief and refugee assistance around the world. MORE
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Global Fund and GAVI Replenishment in 2010
Achieving the health Millennium Development Goals by 2015 will require a significant financing increase for both the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria and the GAVI Alliance in 2010. Through their innovative approaches, broad-based partnerships and targeted investments, each of these mechanisms is working in a unique and complementary way to improve health in the world's poorest countries. MORE
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ONE reaction to G20 Finance Ministers meeting in St Andrews
Warm words alone won't fight poverty or climate change. While the hosts can be commended for trying, the G20 collectively have failed to ensure that the resources to help the poorest countries adapt to climate change would be additional to existing development assistance. MORE
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Global climate deal ‘matter of life and death’ for millions in Africa - ONE
Finance Ministers from G20 countries meeting in Scotland this weekend are being urged to keep the world's poorest high on their agenda as they discuss how to help developing countries adapt to the disastrous impacts of climate change - and contribute to stemming its rise. MORE
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AFRICA AND THE GLOBAL CLIMATE DEAL
Climate change is not a crisis of Africa's making, yet it is African people, especially the poorest, who will suffer the first and the worst. Not only does it add yet another challenge to those struggling to combat extreme poverty and disease by exacerbating the conditions of poverty, but it threatens to erode the gains that have been made in recent years. ONE urges global policymakers to keep the poorest in mind as they negotiate a global climate deal at Copenhagen in December 2009. These negotiations will focus on reaching consensus on how to respond to climate change worldwide and resolving that key question is of critical importance to the African continent. As part of these talks however, it is also critical that policymakers take special consideration of Africa-both to address its disproportionate need to adapt to impending climate change but also to work with the continent as a mitigation partner going forward. MORE
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Save Africa's Children
Save Africa's Children (SAC) provides direct support and care to orphans and vulnerable children affected by HIV/AIDS, poverty and war throughout Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean. SAC partners with individuals, churches, grassroots organizations, government and corporate sectors, endeavoring to build a dynamic, diverse movement to restore hope and a future for Africa's children. 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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National Peace Corps Association
The National Peace Corps Association is a non-profit organization connecting, informing and engaging returned Peace Corps volunteers, former Peace Corps staff and friends of Peace Corps committed to fostering peace through service, education and advocacy. MORE
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FEED Foundation
The FEED Foundation is a 501c3 organization dedicated to improving the global food system by raising funds and awareness for healthy and sustainable interventions, like international school-feeding and healthier school meals in America. MORE