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  • Kenyan Slum Youth Group Wins 2009 ONE Africa Award

    Nov. 15 2009

    A community organization founded by young people in Nairobi's slums has won the ONE Africa Award, an annual prize given by the global anti-poverty group to honor ground-breaking work by African non-governmental organizations. MORE

  • ONE Welcomes USAID Administrator Nominee Rajiv Shah

    Nov. 10 2009

    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

  • ONE reaction to G20 Finance Ministers meeting in St Andrews

    Nov. 9 2009

    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

  • Global climate deal ‘matter of life and death’ for millions in Africa - ONE

    Nov. 5 2009

    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

  • Global AIDS treatment surges to 4 million thanks to increased investments

    Sept. 30 2009

    ONE welcomed today's United Nations report that found the number of people being treated for AIDS worldwide surged to more than 4 million people last year, with enormous gains in several sub-Saharan African countries. MORE

  • “Bring African countries to G20 table,” says anti poverty group

    Sept. 25 2009

    The Pittsburgh G20 Summit appears to have made some progress towards reshaping global power structures to make them more representative, said anti poverty campaign group ONE. But media reports of the draft communiqué indicate the G20 still has some way to go before it becomes a truly representative global decision making body. MORE

  • Gates Foundation Launches “Living Proof” Campaign on ONE.org, Spotlighting African Success Stories

    Sept. 24 2009

    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

  • New Global Health Initiatives Bolster Smart Efforts Saving Lives in Africa

    Sept. 23 2009

    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

  • “Hold G20 Summit in Africa”, anti-poverty group urges

    Sept. 23 2009

    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

  • New U.S. Investment in Senegal Aims to Improve Lives, Create Trade, Prevent Hunger

    Sept. 17 2009

    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