Aid
Fragile states speak up on aid spending
Monday, April 4th, 2011Guardian Poverty Matters blog, Friday 1 April 2011 — About a year ago, officials from seven fragile states met out of donor earshot to compare notes and air their grievances about how billions of dollars of donor money has been spent on peacebuilding and statebuilding over the years.
Dili, Timor-Leste’s capital, was the perfect place to [...]
Millennium development goals: Fragile states claim summit outcome off-target
Friday, September 24th, 2010Also run by The Guardian.
DILI, Sep 23, 2010 (IPS) – Calls by fragile states for greater focus on addressing conflict and fragility have been largely ignored in the outcome document of the millennium development goals (MDGs) summit in New York, but critical donors are at least listening to the growing rumble of voices from developing [...]
Fragile nations speak their peace
Saturday, May 8th, 2010Matt Crook investigates why the Millennium Development Goals are failing to be met and how aid recipients are now telling donors how to make their dollars work better
Guardian Weekly, May 7, 2010
With the Millennium Development Goals slipping from the grasp of donor countries and fragile states, a big effort is being made to bring together [...]
Fragile Nations Speak Up To Donors
Sunday, April 11th, 2010DILI, April 10, 2010 (IPS) — An international dialogue meeting in East Timor Saturday saw fragile states make giant steps in showing developed nations how aid can be more effectively channelled to achieve their key development goals.
The Apr. 9-10 Dili International Dialogue on Statebuilding and Peacebuilding broke new ground as a group of fragile states, [...]
Listen to Us, Fragile States Tell Donors
Friday, April 9th, 2010DILI, April 9, 2010 (IPS) — “Work with us, not against us” was the message for international donors that came out of the g7+ meeting of fragile states, which met in Dili this week to discuss how they can make better use of the foreign aid they get.
Fragile states must take the reins when it [...]
Gusmao unveils plans to invest E.Timor oil wealth
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010AFP April 8, 2010 — East Timorese Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao pledged Wednesday to invest more of the tiny country’s oil wealth to boost economic growth and living standards.
Gusmao told international donors at the country’s eighth annual development partners meeting that “the people need us to create conditions to improve their livelihoods”.
“The people do not [...]
East Timor, Fragile States Compare Notes on Aid
Friday, April 2nd, 2010DILI, April 2, 2010 (IPS) — When the Group of Seven (G7) industrialized nations hold meetings, the first thing many people think of is protests. But when the g7—with a lowercase G—get together for their first meeting in East Timor next week, it could revolutionize how donor countries give assistance to fragile states.
It will be [...]