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Learning the DFID language

Posted by: Leigh Egerton, Multilateral Organisations Support, Posted on: 20 December 2012 - Categories: Graduate Scheme, Other

Do you know what a multilateral organisation is? Do you know your GAVI from your GPE? Your AsDB from your AfDB? Your UNDP from your UNFPA? Last July I was happily informed I had obtained a place on the DFID graduate development …

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FAO's work on food security and agriculture in India

Posted by: Kelly Wright, Posted on: 10 August 2012 - Categories: Asia, Nutrition

This Sunday, David Cameron and Vice President Michel Temer of Brazil will challenge global leaders to work to address hunger and malnutrition at the Global Hunger Event. As that event takes place, many international organisations – governmental, multilateral, civil society …

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What WHO is helping to achieve in India

Posted by: Kelly Wright, Posted on: 16 July 2012 - Categories: Asia, Health

India has been polio free since January 2011. Before the launch of polio immunisation campaigns in 1995, an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 polio cases were being reported annually, so that's quite an achievement. The near-eradication of polio in India was made …

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The Multilateral Aid Review - what next?

Posted by: Kelly Wright, Posted on: 21 May 2012 - Categories: Other

DFID spends over 40% of its annual programme budget through multilateral organisations, including the United Nations, World Bank and European Union - on everything from peacekeeping and responding to humanitarian disasters, to delivering education, immunisation and infrastructure programmes. It is …

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