by Newsroom | Jan 23, 2014 | Financing for Development
Summary of the latest DEVE Committee discussion on the modernisation of ODA On Tuesday 21 January, the Development Committee of the European Parliament (DEVE) discussed the Study on the Modernization of ODA in the framework of the post-MDG agenda, its challenges and...
by Newsroom | Dec 10, 2012 | Financing for Development, Private sector
Leading experts from EU institutions and civil society debated the private sector in development. The private sector in development and its link with human rights was debated at a high level panel held by Concord in Brussels on 10 December. The event saw speakers from...
by Newsroom | Nov 2, 2012 | Financing for Development
Spanish aid is sinking to lowest levels in decades as government targets development cuts. UPDATE 2/10/2013 The Spanish Development NGO network, Coordinadora ONGD, announced today on 2 October 2013 that Spanish development aid has suffered further cuts according to...
by Newsroom | Sep 28, 2012 | Financing for Development
Many EU countries show a fall in development aid budgets since 2011. According to figures released by the OECD earlier this year on 4th April 2012 many European countries made cuts in their aid programs to the developing world. For the first time since the...
by Newsroom | Sep 24, 2012 | Publications launch
The very first AidWatch style report was published in 2006. The briefing showed that €13.5 billion – or almost one third – of reported European ODA in 2005 did not provide any new aid for developing countries. This vast amount of apparent aid spending was in fact...
