By Kirsten Hjørnholm Sørensen, ActionAid Denmark
New proposed EU targets that resemble a proposal on sustainable development goals, may be green, but fail to deliver something as basic as the...
By Kirsten Hjørnholm Sørensen, ActionAid Denmark
New proposed EU targets that resemble a proposal on sustainable development goals, may be green, but fail to deliver something as basic as the...
By Kirsten Hjørnholm Sørensen, ActionAid Denmark
New proposed EU targets that resemble a proposal on sustainable development goals, may be green, but fail to deliver something as basic as the...
At the Foreign Affairs Council on Monday 14th of May EU Development Ministers met for a short 3-hour council meeting, their first of the year, with a very packed agenda. One of their achievements was...
On Friday May 11 more than one hundred member states of the UN Committee on Food Security (CFS) endorsed the Voluntary Guidelines on the governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests....
As part of the EU’s new development policy, the Agenda for Change, in April the European Commission launched a new initiative called Energising Development, which aims to provide access to energy for...
EU Development Ministers signed off this week on new plans to step up the EU’s role in poverty eradication, which had been in the pipeline for some eighteen months. Throughout this time ActionAid and...
Last week we launched our new report ‘Fuel for thought’ at a panel debate at the Centre in Brussels. More than 100 people came to the event, including Members of the European...
As February draws to a close, I headed up a delegation from CONCORD – the European coalition of development NGOs – meeting EU Foreign Policy Chief Cathy Ashton. It was a great opportunity to speak to...
Part of my work here in the EU office is to work with decision-makers to look at the best ways of allocating development aid. One of ActionAid’s arguments it that when well managed, direct...
No matter where you go to check the news, you’re probably used by now to hearing all about the financial crisis. Governments across Europe are slashing their budgets and we’re told the age of...
On 7th of December the European Commission presented its proposal on how it will spend €62 billion on aid between 2014 and 2020.This represents a slight increase in the EU’s development budget and is...
With continued instability on the financial markets dominating the 2011 G20 leader’s summit, it should come as little surprise that other important issues have been swept aside. One of these is the...
In 2006, Sun Biofuels arrived in Kisarawe District and took land the size of 11,000 football pitches to establish a jatropha plantation - a crop that is grown for biofuels (above). 13-year-old Mariam...
First generation biofuels made from food crops are already being used to fuel our cars, lorries and buses. We’re told that they’re a renewable energy source that will decrease our dependency on...
