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Canadian Aid: Budgeting for Results
As a leading international donor, Canada provides over CAD$5 billion per year in official development assistance (ODA) to reduce hunger and poverty and improve quality of life for the world’s poorest. Between 2001 and 2010 Canada doubled its spending on foreign aid. From 2004 to 2010, Canada doubled assistance to sub-Saharan Africa (albeit against an adjusted target) by CAD$802 million, to deliver a total of CAD$1.94 billion. MORE
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Horn of Africa Crisis
The Horn of Africa is experiencing its worst drought in 60 years. More than 13 million people, mostly nomadic pastoralists and farmers in south-central Somalia, north-eastern Kenya, and south-eastern Ethiopia, are severely lacking access to food.
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Aid and Beyond: Transparency, accountability and results
A Summary of ONE’s Position for the 4th High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, Busan MORE
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From aid effectiveness to development effectiveness: Delivering results through transparency and accountability
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
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Replenishing the Global Fund for Education
The Global Fund for Education hosts its first pledging conference this November. ONE's policy team takes a closer look at the requested US pledge and what it could mean.
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Overview of the Global Partnership for Education
A closer look at who makes up the Global Partnership for Education - and how it works. MORE
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ONE policy pitch (Oct. 2011): Looking ahead to the beginning of the end of AIDS
A closer look at the specific, measurable goals we must achieve by 2015 to help us begin to end HIV/AIDS. MORE
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Fact sheet: What is Feed the Future?
The U.S. Feed the Future initiative is a groundbreaking strategy to make smart investments in farming, infrastructure, and training. MORE
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Breaking the cycle of crisis and boosting growth through African agriculture: A call to the U.S. Government for urgent action
Investments in agriculture can have a huge impact on many of the world's poorest people, particularly in Africa. MORE
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INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP: Solving Somalia's Food Security Emergency
As a result of the current famine in Somalia, 30,000 children died between April and July 2011, and four million people throughout the country are food insecure, including three million in south Somalia. MORE