Order of the High Court of Delhi in W.P.(C) 6444/2021 in the matter of Ratiram Ahirwar & Others Vs Delhi Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board & Others dated 13/07/2021. The Lieutenant Governor of Delhi in exercise of his power under Section 22 of the Building and Other Construction …
More than 300 high-profile representatives from NGOs, businesses, government and UN organisations are set to convene at the Aid & Development Africa Summit in Nairobi this February exchanging innovative and sustainable solutions for improving aid delivery and development strategy in sub-Saharan East Africa. Delivering Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires a …
Nairobi — Belgium has approved a donation of Sh2.6 billion to the government for the construction of the massive Mavoko Water Project. Speaking during the marking of the Belgian King's Day, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Didier Reynders stated that this underscored the cordial relationship between the …
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and FAO have signed a $15 million agreement aimed at boosting the capacity of developing countries to track key agricultural data -information that is essential to good policymaking and that will help track progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The …
Mafios Ganyari tills a dry, patch of land, coaxing a few thin cassava tubers from the soil. This year's harvest has been poor. Mafios has barely enough to feed his family. Farmers across Zimbabwe have lost cattle and crops and fear more pain as the year progresses. "Three or four …
The United States on Monday pledged $410 million toward ending the AIDS epidemic in South Africa, the country hardest hit. South Africa has the world's largest population of people living with HIV, at 6.8 million, and the funds will help expand its antiretroviral program, which provides treatment to more than …
The number of refugees displaced by civil conflict or natural disasters is on the rise. Economic impacts of refugees on host countries are controversial and little understood, because data have not been available and the question of refugee impacts does not lend itself to conventional impact evaluation methods. We use …
BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The United Nations has raised its 2016 humanitarian funding appeal to a record $21.6 billion from $19.7 billion, partly due to new disasters including a cyclone that battered Fiji and an earthquake that hit Ecuador, as well as the deepening impact of El Nino. The …
The world’s failure to prepare for natural disasters will have “inconceivably bad” consequences as climate change fuels a huge increase in catastrophic droughts and floods and the humanitarian crises that follow, the UN’s head of disaster planning has warned. Last year, earthquakes, floods, heatwaves and landslides left 22,773 people dead, …
THE African Development Bank has approved the release of $33 million to improve water and sanitation in Bulawayo. The bank confirmed the development in a statement yesterday. "The bank recently approved $33 million to improve clean water access in Bulawayo, the country's second largest city," reads the statement. "The Bulawayo …
Australia said on Monday it would donate A$10 million ($7.1 million) to fund relief efforts in Fiji, where more than 60,000 people are sheltering in evacuation centers more than a week after the Pacific island nation was hit by its worst cyclone. Tropical Cyclone Winston, the worst ever recorded in …
Zimbabwe needs nearly $1.6 billion in aid to help pay for grain and other food after a drought that has badly affected harvests and left 3 million people in need, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Tuesday. That figure includes nearly $720 million to pay for 1.4 million tonnes of …
The newly-formed Global Innovation Fund (GIF) has announced its first tranche of investments in London today (9 February), with £3m being allocated to eight social innovation projects in the developing world. GIF-funded projects include Poa Power – a pilot scheme in Kenya that provides off-grid communities with affordable clean energy …
The Administrator of United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Ms Gayle Smith, on Monday announced the U.S. government’s provision of an additional N20 billion ($100m) to Africa’s food security programmes. Smith, who led a U.S. delegation at the ongoing African Union (AU) Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, disclosed this …
An estimated $40 billion is needed annually to help the rapidly growing number of people needing humanitarian aid as a result of conflicts and natural disasters - and one possibility to help fill the $15 billion funding gap is a small voluntary tax on tickets for soccer games and other …
The Israeli government has donated items worth Sh1 million to more than 1,000 families affected by floods in Migori county. The Israeli and Kenyan governments have hinted at starting programmes to increase food security in the region. Israeli Ambassador Yahel Vilan on Monday donated three bulls, 100 bags of maize, …
The government has received a Sh15 billion grant from Denmark to improve governance structures, health and environment. Environmental conservation and related investments for job creation will take the lion share of the funds at Sh7.5 billion. Primary healthcare and maternal health will get Sh4 billion to be sunk into expanding …
China, Brazil and South Africa have joined India in rejecting a key OECD study stating that rich countries have already mobilised nearly two-thirds of the $100bn (£67bn) pledged to secure a new climate deal. The refusal by the world’s four most powerful developing countries to accept the methodology used by …
The government of Ireland on Tuesday announced that it will provide an additional €2 million to drought affected people in Ethiopia. According to Irish Aid in Addis Ababa, the latest announcement was made by Seán Sherlock, the Irish Minister for Development, Trade Promotion and North South Co-operation. The funding brings …
This brief provides an overview of how members of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) are integrating gender equality into their bilateral aid to climate change, and calls on DAC members to step-up their commitments to integrate gender equality in all aspects of climate action as a prerequisite for achieving …
The European Union (EU) on Monday gave Zimbabwe 89 million Euros (100 million U.S. dollars) to support the southern African country's health, agriculture and institutional governance programs. The grant is part of the 234 million Euros (270 million U.S. dollars) five-year funding support committed to Zimbabwe by the EU under …
