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Story-time’s over: CSR grows up - Click To Read Article
There’s nothing like a good story to engage and excite an audience. The human story behind the numbers is what communications experts always look for as they try to transform dry facts into something that will capture the imagination of a message-overloaded public.
A new partnership for meeting the MDGs - Click To Read Article
Today, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, in a speech at the UN, called for a new global partnership to tackle what he described as a "development emergency" – the shortfall in progress against the internationally agreed UN Millennium Development Goals. The speech was accompanied by two statements, one by Heads of State and the other by business. The UN Secretary General endorsed the Prime Minister's proposal for a UN Summit next year to review progress and accelerate action.
Afrika! Afrika! - Click To Read Article
Apart from being one of the most spectacular shows I have ever seen, Afrika! Afrika! is also hugely important.
Fresh thinking on Africa: "A homecoming for jobs in Africa" - Click To Read Article
There are two things that I have come to believe very strongly. First, it is time to change the language used to talk about Africa - away from "charity", "aid" and "poverty", and towards "enterprise", "trade" and "job creation". In short, towards the language that African's themselves use to talk about Africa.
Doing good by doing good business - Click To Read Article
SABMiller – the world’s second largest brewer, and one of the first African-originated companies to emerge as a global business – announced today plans to invest $7.5m (£3.8m) to scale up its Eagle Lager project in Uganda. Eagle has emerged as the second largest pan-African brand, while benefiting over 10,000 small scale farmers in Uganda and Zambia that supply the sorghum from which it is brewed.
Trading insults: Doha disappoints again - Click To Read Article
There was a depressing sense of déjà vu to Thursday’s collapse in the Doha trade talks. The meeting of the so-called G4 – the US, EU, India and Brazil – was widely seen as a last chance to achieve the target of getting a deal by the end of the year.
The problem with food aid: one charity tells it as it is - Click To Read Article
Our latest news round up profiles one on the most inconsistent development policies currently out there - the long-running practice by the US government of providing aid relief in the form of subsidized grain bought from its own farmers. As reported in the New York Times, CARE, one of the world's largest charities, has just announced its decision to phase out its involvement.
Fresh thinking at DFID - Click To Read Article
A wind of change is blowing through the UK's Department for International Development (DFID).
The Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund: a better way to make poverty history - Click To Read Article
Behind the headlines and campaigns, the key to making poverty history in Africa actually lies with its indigenous entrepreneurs. Not only an engine for economic growth, small businesses are also the source of most jobs and opportunities for poor people.
G8 Summit: a total farce? - Click To Read Article
For Oxfam it was a failure to deliver, and for Bob Geldof “a total farce”. But was last week’s G8 outcome for Africa really that bad? For sure, little of the money announced for Africa was new, and the restated resolve by G8 leaders to meet their 2005 commitments comes against a backdrop of painfully slow progress on delivery.
Water: Everyone’s Business - Click To Read Article
Today – World Water Day – should be an important day in everyone’s diaries. The Human Development Report 2006 and today’s press release by the African Development Bank explain why.
Growth in Africa: good news again - Click To Read Article
The positive sentiment about Africa expressed by Stephen Lussier in his recent blog was reflected this weekend by the IMF and World Bank. At their Annual Meeting, they announced that they expect Africa's growth rate - so critical to lifting people out of poverty - to reach 6 per cent this year and 7 per cent by next.
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