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# aid - Saturday 11 May, 2013
Poll: Should Ireland spend more on overseas development funding?
Current spending does not meet UN targets but should we be spending 0.7 per cent of GNP on overseas development funding when we are in a bailout?
Ireland’s overseas development funding continues to drop, remains below UN target
Ireland gave 0.47 per cent of its GDP in development assistance in 2012, well below the UN target of 0.7 per cent.
# aid - Tuesday 30 April, 2013
Syrian refugees ‘now make up 10 per cent of population of Lebanon’
Oxfam said the figure is comparable to the entire population of Belfast, Cork, Galway, Limerick, Waterford and Derry all moving to Dublin.
# aid - Sunday 21 April, 2013
US doubles aid to Syrian rebels, who want more
US Secretary of State John Kerry announced the new package of assistance, saying it will provide an additional $123 million in aid.
# aid - Monday 15 April, 2013
Column: Climate change – it’s not all just hot air
As former US vice-president Al Gore arrives in Dublin today to speak about climate change, global hunger and poverty, Dom Hunt explains why climate change needs to be recognised as a global issue.
# aid - Sunday 7 April, 2013
Irish organisation’s evolving approach to overseas aid
Aidlink was set up in 1982, and since the lat 1990s has undergone a number of major changes – including immersing students in Ghanian life.
# aid - Thursday 4 April, 2013
Ireland “must strengthen promise on aid commitments” – NGOs
Aid from Ireland fell by 5.8 per cent in 2012, according to the latest data from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
# aid - Friday 29 March, 2013
9 striking photos from some of the worst crises of the past 40 years
From famine in North Korea to the genocide in Rwanda, these photographs offer an insight into global crises – and how the world has dealt with them.
# aid - Friday 8 March, 2013
Ireland announces €3.8m in funding for UN agencies and NGOs in Congo
Seven million people have died as a result of war in DR Congo since 1998 – making it the one of the deadliest conflicts since World War II, said the Minister for Trade and Development.
# aid - Monday 4 March, 2013
The Goat Who Can Never Find Anything in his Size Pic of the Day
“Do you have this in a size 8?”
# aid - Thursday 28 February, 2013
US pledges $60 million in aid to Syrian opposition
US Secretary of State John Kerry said that president Bashar al-Assad was “out of time and must be out of power.”
# aid - Saturday 23 February, 2013
Poll: Do you have a Trócaire box in the house?
It was once in almost every household in Ireland over Lent – on the charity’s 40th anniversary, we ask: Is the Trócaire box something you still use?
# aid - Wednesday 30 January, 2013
A further €4.7 million in Irish Aid pledged for humanitarian crisis in Syria
The additional Irish Aid funding will go towards to delivering vital assistance – including food, water, sanitation and medical supplies – to more than 700,000 Syrian refugees.
# aid - Wednesday 23 January, 2013
Tánaiste to meet Bill Gates in Dublin today
They’ll discuss EU budget and size of Emergency Aid Reserve and European Development Fund.
# aid - Saturday 19 January, 2013
Here’s how Ireland distributed €159m among nine countries last year
The amount was 12 per cent less than the nearly €180 million given to countries including Ethiopia, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Timor Leste and Vietnam in 2011.
# aid - Tuesday 25 December, 2012
My Christmas Day: Boiled meat with the prospect of scorpions
Merry Christmas from Maban, South Sudan, where Niamh Fleming-Farrell sends dispatches from the frontline of aid workers there.
# aid - Friday 30 November, 2012
Britain suspends aid to Rwanda over DR Congo rebel support
The UK is to withhold million in aid over concerns that Rwanda is supporting of rebels country, which is in the midst of an increasingly violent conflict.
# aid - Friday 23 November, 2012
‘Collusion at senior levels’ of Ugandan government agencies led to aid fraud – report
The misappropriation of €4 million Irish aid in Uganda was supported by a ‘sophisticated and elaborate’ scheme.
# aid - Tuesday 13 November, 2012
Irish Aid says misappropriation of funds will ‘not happen again’ – Crowe
The Sinn Féin spokesperson on Foreign Affairs said today’s assurance that the money will be fully returned to the Irish Government is to be welcomed.
# aid - Tuesday 6 November, 2012
Irish Aid expenditure in Mozambique to be examined
A delegation from the Committee of Public Accounts will travel there against a backdrop of revelations that Irish Aid funds in Uganda were misappropriated.
# aid - Saturday 3 November, 2012
Aaron McKenna: Should we turn off the tap of Irish aid to other countries?
So €4m in Irish aid may have been misappropriated in Uganda. Can we afford to keep giving – or can we afford to stop?
# aid - Monday 29 October, 2012
Public Accounts Committee member wants probe into Irish overseas aid
Fine Gael TD Simon Harris has called for the powerful Dáil committee to investigate Irish overseas aid following the misappropriation of millions of euro sent to Uganda.
# aid - Sunday 28 October, 2012
Ugandan prime minister: ‘I didn’t receive misappropriated Irish money’
Amama Mbabazi says while some Irish funds were “fraudulently paid to private accounts”, some was used for its intended aims.
# aid - Friday 26 October, 2012
Poll: Should Ireland distribute foreign aid while it is in a bailout?
With the government suspending aid to Uganda yesterday, we’re asking should Ireland be distributing foreign aid while still under the terms of a bailout?
Irish Aid: Tánaiste “absolutely disgusted” after alleged Uganda aid fraud
It is believed that around €4 million of Irish aid money may have been misappropriated by the Office of the Prime Minister of Uganda.
# aid - Monday 15 October, 2012
Foreign Affairs committee members visit Sierra Leone
During their visit, they will review Ireland’s development programme and Irish Aid’s work in the country.
# aid - Saturday 22 September, 2012
79 Irish politicians sign statement supporting Gaza blockade ship
The SV Estelle sailed several weeks ago from Sweden and is expected to arrive in the port of Gaza in early to mid October.
# aid - Wednesday 19 September, 2012
Russia expels US aid agency for ‘meddling in politics’
Russia’s foreign ministry has claimed that USAid had attempted to “influence political processes through its grants”.
# aid - Tuesday 11 September, 2012
Column: Embarrassing bowel problem? We’d really rather not hear about it
The media shapes our picture of global health threats, writes Glendora Meikle – and the unglamorous, smelly, downright deadly conditions are too often left out.
# aid - Friday 31 August, 2012
Syrian refugees tell of “indiscriminate violence”
Joe Costello, Minister of State for Trade and Development, relates the dire tales of massacre and suffering told to him by Syrian refugees when he visited them in Jordan this week.
# aid - Monday 27 August, 2012
35 tonnes of Irish aid flown to Niger after floods
Severe floods struck the regions of Tillaberi and Dosso earlier this month, following on the heels of a food crisis and refugee crisis.
# aid - Sunday 26 August, 2012
Irish man teams up with Kenyans to give “trade without aid”
What is it like founding an organisation that offers trade without aid in Kenya? Corkonian James Hennessy, who founded Development Pamoja, tells us.
# aid - Sunday 19 August, 2012
Column: How to stop crises becoming disasters
On World Humanitarian Day, Concern Director in Kenya Anne O’Mahony writes from Nairobi on tackling the underlying causes of vulnerability to the worst effects of manmade and natural shocks.
# aid - Saturday 11 August, 2012
What has happened to Ireland’s workhouses?
Decades after their mass closure by the new Irish Free State, communities are pulling together to save their local workhouse.
# aid - Friday 3 August, 2012
North Korea requests UN aid over food shortage
Crop harvests have been seriously affected by a serious drought and recent flooding.
# aid - Monday 30 July, 2012
Public donations to Concern fall after 2010 emergencies
NGO’s annual report for 2011 also shows that two members of staff received remunerations of over €95,000 for the year.
# aid - Sunday 29 July, 2012
Ireland to provide €3 million in vital aid to Somalia
Eamon Gilmore announced the funding during a trip to the capital Mogadishu today.
# aid - Wednesday 11 July, 2012
Column: Population growth an obstacle to development…
…But let’s not fall back on reprehensible arguments that disease and food crises are “natural” methods of curbing it, writes Concern Worldwide’s Overseas Director.
# aid - Monday 25 June, 2012
Spain formally requests €100 billion rescue loan
Spain’s government views loan offer “very favourably”, according to letter sent to Jean-Claude Juncker.
# aid - Monday 18 June, 2012
Column: Dragging heels on climate change hurts the poor
The changing patterns of climate and other factors have caused chaos in the developing world, writes Concern’s CEO Tom Arnold. This week’s Earth Summit is a chance to prioritise solutions.
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