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An overview of Lagoro IDP camp in Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 20 May 2007. Manoocher Deghati/IRIN

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  1. Study on Brazilian development cooperation

    Projects - April 2010 to July 2010

    Study on issues and options around the vision, structure and implementation of co-operation for development through Brazil’s Agency for Co-operation (ABC), given Brazil’s growing role as a key actor on a range of global issues.

  2. Dirk Willem te Velde

    The global financial crisis and developing countries: what happened, and what have we learned?

    Opinion - Articles and blogs - 19 March 2010
    In early 2009, a global network of 50 researchers coordinated by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) embarked on a unique monitoring study on the economic and social impact of the global financial crisis in 10 developing countries. They revealed a clear impact by the time the G20 leaders met in London in April 2009, with the worst yet to come.
  3. Rebecca Holmes

    Gender needs to be more than a ‘tick-box’ in social protection programming

    Opinion - Articles and blogs - 8 March 2010
    This International Women’s Day, India is on the cusp of an historic event. All eyes are on parliament and the Women’s Reservation Bill – which, if passed, will reserve 33% of the seats in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies for women, on a rotational basis.

    India has already set the scene for pioneering progressive legislation, with the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act offering 100 days employment to poor rural households every year, and providing equal wages to men and women.

  4. Climate change finance must be additional to finance for development

    Opinion - Articles and blogs - 1 February 2010

    Bill Gates has warned that climate change finance should not be diverted from other development priorities (Health funding in danger, says Gates, 25 January). Whether climate finance will be additional to official development assistance (ODA, or ‘aid') is hotly debated. Some climate finance can be classified as aid (within the OECD-DAC creditor reporting system) so the question remains: is newly announced climate finance really additional, or is it just recycled aid?

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