The World Bank has decided to offer $10 million grant to help fight HIV/AIDS in Rwanda. It has donated essential drugs valued at $1 million to the Ministry of Health and Sanitation.EBSCO_bspAfrica Research Bulletin Economic Financial & Technical...
There are also 63 UN Information Centres in other parts of the world. Website: http://www.un.org Specialized Agencies of the UN The intergovernmental agencies related to the UN by special agreements are separate autonomous organizations which work with the UN and each other through the co-...
After an initially exclusive focus on strategies and the requirements for achieving the MDGs by 2015, later applications have been more diverse, responding to the analytical demands from developing-country governments, World Bank country teams and different UN agencies. As examples, in addition to ...
To Gaza I did not go By Gideon Levy | Nov.22, 2012 Excerpt: "The last time I was in Gaza was in November 2008. I reported then on an Israeli missile that hit
Relief agencies said the funds were needed to provide urgent assistance to new arrivals, mainly women and children in dire need of protection. The appeal came at a time when Uganda's response to more than 1.5 million refugees in the country is critically underfunded. An interagency report said...
(UN) may provide a crucial service by ceasing violence (at least temporarily) in conflict-ridden societies these agencies also reinforce a neo-liberal world order that is "on the whole ... de-historicized leaving in place an old colonial script in which the West saves hapless refugees from ...
A year earlier, in 1944, theBretton Woods Agreementshad laid the foundations for the post-war global financial system, and created theWorld Bankand theInternational Monetary Fund. Over the years, dozens of agencies, funds and specialised programmes have been added, gradually building up what is...
Humanitarian agencies said local authorities provided more than 70,000 people with food, cash, water, sanitation, shelter and health assistance. Some 50 boats were deployed to deliver supplies or evacuate people who may have been marooned by flood waters. ...
Remember, Omran Daqneesh wasonce depictedwidely as theface of Syrian suffering. As it turned out, the entire story Western media and agencies told was false, based on unreliable sources. Recall that the humanitarian agency MSFonce insistedthat Syrian or Russian airstrikes had destroyed —...
The initiative will empower the countries’ national statistical offices — agencies that handle population censuses data, economic policies, healthcare and more — by providing AI hardware, training for data scientists and ecosystem support. Known as the United AI Alliance, the initiative is led by...