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  • What Does the World Really Want from the Next Global Development Goals?

    Sept. 14 2012

    Over the next few years, the global community will grapple with profound issues that will have an outsized impact on development-related investments for decades.  Clearly, the UN and others are taking this process very seriously and proactively seeking out stakeholder views.  If augmented by direct engagement with the world’s poorest people, these laudable efforts will undoubtedly increase the quality of the post-2015 goals and rally greater support for getting them done. MORE

  • Putting Nutrition on the Agenda

    Sept. 12 2012

    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

  • The Open Government Partnership

    April 19 2012

    The Open Government Partnership (OGP) is a new global initiative through which countries at all points on the spectrum of economic development can share their experience about how to make governance more open, transparent and accountable. MORE

  • Natural Resource Governance

    April 19 2012

    Natural resources have the potential to bring wealth and stability to resource-rich developing countries. Too often, corruption and mismanagement of natural resources leads to poverty and conflict. Improving natural resource governance is a crucial first step to ensuring citizens can hold their governments accountable for the oil and mineral wealth that belongs to their country, and to allowing citizens and governments to assess if they are receiving a fair deal for their resources. MORE

  • Aid Transparency

    April 19 2012

    High quality development assistance works. Across the globe, investments are providing lifesaving results. Transparency and accountability can help to make sure that aid is as effective as possible. Increased aid transparency and coordination would ensure that scarce aid resources are used efficiently to deliver the biggest impact possible in terms of poverty reduction. MORE

  • Budget Transparency

    April 17 2012

    To promote greater transparency and accountability, ONE is working on a number of fronts, pushing for improved natural resource governance, greater transparency about budgets and aid, and encouraging donors to invest more in building the capacity of civil society organizations and other oversight institutions (parliaments, for example) so that they can make use of the information that transparency will unleash, in order to hold governments to account. MORE

  • Food. Farming. Future: Breaking the Cycle of Malnutrition and Poverty

    April 5 2012

    50 million people could be locked in extreme poverty and 15 million children could remain chronically malnourished unless world leaders take urgent action to break the cycle of poverty and hunger. MORE

  • 2012: Fighting for the beginning of the end of AIDS

    March 28 2012

    ONE's updated policy pitch on what it will take to reach the beginning of the end of AIDS by 2015. MORE

  • Fact sheet: The fight against oil and mining secrecy

    Feb. 3 2012

    A handy Q&A that takes a closer look at the Cardin-Lugar Amendment and how it will help.
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