Inclusion. Base Aid on People Power! 13/10/2011 at 6:38 pm At the end of November, leaders of rich and poor countries from around the world will gather in Busan, South Korea, to discuss how they can make aid more effective.
As set out in our earlier blog posts, this is an important meeting, as it tries to set a course for Governments on how to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. The meeting in Busan follows up on early summits on this issue, in particular the 2005 Paris Declaration and the 2008 Accra Agenda for Action, which were organised as aid donors realised that the current donor landscape is not conducive to delivering on the MDGs.
The 2005 summit started from a very technocratic point of view, and formulated a set of principles and mechanisms for greater donor coordination: the idea was to make “overseas aid” more effective. The 2008 summit, rightly, broadened the discussion, and looked at how to get better at bringing about “Development” (not just do aid better), and how to get “civil society” involved. Global equality: the domestic case. 02/07/2012 at 11:00 am Guest blog by Anna Visser In a recent blog post (Why Ireland invests in overseas aid, 18 May 2012), Dóchas summarised the government’s rationale for its aid programme.
What kind of inequality matters most? The case for unfairness. Human Rights approaches to Dev. Dochas Human Rights In October 2011, Ireland will be examined for the first time by the United Nations on our human rights record under the Universal Periodic Review or UPR.
Dóchas has joined 16 leading organisations in the campaign Your Rights. Right Now to ensure that Ireland takes ALL its human rights obligations seriously.
Ageing. Gender.