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Source: examiner.com
William Lambers
This Sunday, July 10 is the birthday of one of America’s great treasures, the Food for Peace program. President Dwight Eisenhower, or Ike, signed into law what was originally known as public law 480 on July 10, 1954.
The idea was to send U.S. surplus food overseas to fight hunger, and what better way to build a peaceful world than to defeat the cause of so much desperation and instability: hunger. Eisenhower said, “food can be a powerful instrument for all the free world in building a durable …
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Source: The Lancet, Volume 377, Issue 9781, Pages 1907 – 1908, 4 June 2011
Ethiopia has been widely lauded for introducing health reforms that have transformed primary health care in the country. Now it is embarking on two new initiatives. John Donnelly reports.
For more than 5 years, Ethiopia’s Federal Ministry of Health has relentlessly followed a vision of supporting community-based health care. The idea was that the only way for one of the poorest countries in the world to improve health services would be to build an operation up from the …
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Source: AidNews
Bangladesh looks to Africa to boost food outputSaturday, 21st May 2011 – 11:12
DHAKA (Reuters) – Bangladeshi firms have joined Chinese and other companies looking to lease farmland in Africa as part of efforts to feed a growing population and offset creeping urbanisation at home.
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Source: allAfrica.com
Friday, May 13, 2011
Some provisions of new legislation governing the activities of NGOs in Somaliland could undermine international humanitarian activity in the self-declared independent territory, say aid workers and donors.
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International Food Relief Partnership (IFRP) — USAID Offers New Opportunity for FY2011
The International Food Relief Partnership (IFRP) is a program of the United States’ Agency for International Development (USAID) intended to support the production, stockpiling, transportation, delivery, and distribution of shelf-stable, prepackaged foods by U.S. non-profit and Public International Organizations.
USAID has recently issued its Request for Applications for FY2011. A re-cap of this notice is provided below:
Eligibility.
To be considered eligible for a grant under the IFRP, an organization must be a U.S. non-profit organization (as described in section 501(c)(3) …
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Source: Ethiopiaforums.com
Ethiopia: Government Ban Four NGO’s, Including Human Rights Watch
February 15 | Posted by Ethiopiaforums | Afrik: Ethiopian authorities have revoked the licenses of four Non-Governmental Organizations (two local and two foreign). The government of Ethiopia claims that activities carried out by the affected NGOs conflict with the Charities and Societies (CSO) proclamation, a law that came into force in January, 2009.
Two non-governmental organizations, Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association (EWLA) and Ethiopian Human Rights Council, have been accused of earning more than 90 percent of their budget from foreign sources. …
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Source: The Center for Faith-based & Community Initiatives, United States Agency for International Development.
Greetings Friends and Colleagues,
Tomorrow USAID Administrator Dr. Rajiv Shah will give a major address to over 200 non-governmental organizations, think-tanks, academics, and international development leaders hosted by the Center for Global Development. In addition to providing a State of Development address, Administrator Shah will formally launch USAID’s 50th Anniversary campaign. We invite you to watch the speech live tomorrow at 2:00 pm EST. USAID will be streaming Administrator Shah’s remarks on a …
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Source: American Shipper Magazine
Wed, Dec 22, 2010
The Texas Aid Network, a program developed by nonprofit NPower Texas, has launched a new website to provide a ‘one-stop shop’ where Texas nonprofits can search for donated goods and transportation providers to ship these goods to needed destinations.
The network hopes to move 8 million pounds of donated goods by the end of 2011, while connecting more than 2,000 Texas nonprofits, such as food banks and disaster relief organizations, with transporters. The redesigned site also hopes to benefit transportation partners by providing a …
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Highlights of USAID Forward: Procurement Reform & Development Innovation Ventures
Procurement reform, a top priority for USAID Administrator Dr. Rajiv Shah, is intended to make it easier to do business with USAID by increasing competition, strengthening the capacity of local organizations, and expanding partnerships with a larger number of NGOs. Likewise, as a part of President Obama’s and Dr. Shah’s commitments to increase investments in game-changing innovations, USAID has announced the launch of Development Innovation Ventures (DIV). Through DIV, USAID seeks to work with a variety of partners to …
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Quenching thirst with sunshine.
“Water, water, everywhere, but not a drop to drink.” That could have been the case in Haiti, but one company is making a difference with their solar powered water purifying system.
Innovative Water Technologies, (based in Dumont, Colorado) has developed the Sunspring. A portable, self-contained, solar-powered water purification system the Sunspring can process water from remote rivers, creeks, lakes, wells and recycled rainwater. The system physically removes bacteria, virus, cysts, particulates and turbidity from the water source and, according to its inventor Jack Barker, …