Australian Agency for International Development (AusAid)
www.ausaid.gov.au/ Region: East Asia & the Pacific
Description: The absolute poverty of 1.3 billion people who survive on less than a dollar a day remains the fundamental challenge for developing countries and their donor partners. Many of Australia's neighbours are experiencing financial crises and instability and private capital flows to developing countries are volatile. AusAID wants to continue to strive for excellence in the delivery of Australia’s aid program, ensuring it is as effective as possible in reducing poverty and achieving sustainable development.
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The absolute poverty of 1.3 billion people who survive on less than a dollar a day remains the fundamental challenge for developing countries and their donor partners. Many of Australia's neighbours are experiencing financial crises and instability and private capital flows to developing countries are volatile. AusAID wants to continue to strive for excellence in the delivery of Australia’s aid program, ensuring it is as effective as possible in reducing poverty and achieving sustainable development.
Reducing poverty: The central integrating factor of Australia ’s Aid Program
(PDF file): a policy document by the Australian Government's Overseas Aid Program
[Back to top] CIDA
www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/index-e.htm Description: Through the support of the Canadian people, CIDA and its many partners across the country have been leaders in the fight against poverty and in efforts to make this a better world in which to live.
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CIDA's Policy on Poverty Reduction
For Whose Benefit?Targeting the poorin a time of change
Poverty Reduction Project in Asia- CIDA's Asia Branch has begun a yearlong participatory process with staff and a variety of CIDA partners, to help the Branch better understand the complexities of poverty, determine lessons learned from poverty focused projects in the field and develop a new poverty reduction strategy.
Indigenous People in the Americas, a CIDA discussion paper (not an official view or policy of CIDA)
[Back to top] DANIDA: Poverty Reduction
www.um.dk/danida/ Description: An evaluation of the poverty reduction impact of Danish bilateral assistance, which was initiated by Danida in 1994. [Back to top] DFID (UK Department for International Development)
www.dfid.gov.uk/ Description: The Department for International Development (DFID) is the British government department responsible for promoting development and the reduction of poverty. The bulk of DFID's assistance is concentrated on the poorest countries in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. In addition, DFID contributes to eliminating poverty and supporting sustainable development in middle-income countries, as well as helping countries in Central and Eastern Europe to try to ensure that the largest number of people benefit from the process of change.
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White Paper: Eliminating World Poverty: Making Globalization Work for the Poor. The White Paper commits Britain to using its influence directly and in collaboration with others to mobilize a much stronger international commitment to poverty eradication.
Developments: the quarterly magazine produced by DFID to increase awareness of development issues. [Back to top] Finnish Department for International Development Cooperation
global.finland.fi/index.php?kieli=3 Description: The main objectives of Finnish development co-operation are to reduce poverty, to combat global environmental threats by assisting developing countries in solving their environmental problems, and to promote equality, democracy and human rights.[Back to top] French Cooperation
www.france.diplomatie.fr/cooperatio ... pp/dossiers/d_durable/index.gb.html Description: The Rio Conference concentrated on interactions between human activities and the environment. Guided by the principles adopted during this conference, the French Cooperation has since placed such interactions at the heart of its sustainable development policy. Tangibly expressing France's commitment to human development, French assistance concentrates on three main targets: economic and social development, the fight against poverty, the structuring of legally constituted states.[Back to top] German Development Bank (KfW)
www.kfw.de/EN/Entwicklungszusammenarbeit/KfW-diedeu23/Inhalt.jsp Description: KfW is Germany’s promotional bank for the domestic economy and the official development bank for countries in transition and developing countries. The bank is owned by the German federation and the federal states (Länder).
[Back to top] German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
www.bmz.de/en/index.html Description: German development co-operation has identified three priority areas: poverty alleviation, environmental and resource protection and education and training. Measures in these priority areas are most suited to the ideal of sustainable development which describes economic, social and ecological development as an indivisible unit.
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Poverty Reduction - a Global Responsibility: Program of Action 2015. The German Government's Contribution Towards Halving Extreme Poverty Worldwide. [Back to top] GTZ: Poverty Reduction Project
www.gtz.de/forum_armut/english/index.html Description: This is the site where GTZ shares its experience with poverty eradication. Poor people should have a better chance of being heard and of getting some action on what they need. Governments should set agendas that afford poor people greater opportunity and better access to markets. Development projects have an obligation to offer poor population groups tangible benefits.[Back to top] Irish Aid
www.irlgov.ie/iveagh/irishaid/default.asp Description: Development Cooperation Policy is a central component of Irish foreign policy. The Government is committed, through its Action Programme for the Millennium to reaching the target for development aid of 0.45% of GNP by the year 2002.[Back to top] JICA
www.jica.go.jp/Index.html Description: Japan's Provision of economic cooperation is based on the concepts of "humanitarian and moral considerations" and "the recognition of interdependence among nations."[Back to top] Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development
www.kuwait-fund.org/index.html Description: The Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development was established in 1961 to assist Arab and other developing countries by providing them loans and grants to facilitate the implementation of development programs. [Back to top] Lux-Development
www.lux-development.lu/ Description: LUX-DEVELOPMENT is the development co-operation agent for almost all the bilateral projects financed by the government of Luxembourg, and for Luxembourg's emergency relief work.[Back to top] SDC
194.230.65.134/dezaweb2/home.asp Description: The aim of Development Co-operation is to combat poverty by providing help towards self-help. In particular, it promotes economic and government autonomy, contributes to the improvement of production conditions, helps to solve environmental problems and strives for better access to education and basic health care for the most disadvantaged population groups.[Back to top] SIDA
www.sida.se/Sida/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=160&a=984&v=8 Description: A world without poverty and oppression will be better for everybody. In order to solve the major challenges of our era - poverty, environmental degradation, and conflicts - great co-operative efforts are necessary. International development co-operation is an investment in ensuring poor people a better life, environmental conservation and peace, in democracy and equality. It should pave the way for equal relations and make itself redundant. Sweden participates in this co-operation, in this global assumption of responsibility. Development co-operation mobilizes Swedish society and contributes to an internationalisation of the country.
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Dollars, Dialogue and Development. An evaluation of Swedish program aid. The site includes 13 background papers (country papers on Bangladesh, Cape Verde, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Tanzania, Zambia, Uganda and Vietnam) and proceeding of conference to discuss the report. [Back to top] SNV
www.snv.nl/ Description: SNV is a Dutch international development organization that mobilizes expertise in the marginal areas of Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe and makes this expertise available in flexible ways. The experts develop and share knowledge and skills with local organizations with the goal or better equipping them for their work in the field of the structural alleviation of poverty of women and men.[Back to top] USAID
www.usaid.gov/ Description: The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is the independent government agency that provides economic development and humanitarian assistance to advance U.S. economic and political interests overseas.
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2020 Visions: How Fast Growth Can Reduce Poverty And Increase Trade, 1995-2020.
USAID Development Experience Clearinghouse captures USAID-funded publications for dissemination to the international development community. [Back to top]
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