March 2014 Newsletter from DI

 

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March 2014 devinit.org
The road to ending extreme poverty. Last week the Development Initiatives Africa Hub, working in collaboration with the Chronic Poverty Advisory Network (CPAN), launched the third Global Chronic Poverty Report, in Nairobi, Kenya. The report looks at what can be done to ensure the post-2015 development agenda leaves no one behind. The launch also included highlights of our forthcoming East Africa Chronic Poverty Report which will investigate why despite a decade of significant gross domestic product growth rates over 20 million East Africans are still classified as either chronically poor or experiencing extreme poverty. Read more.
Whose value for whose money? Views from the ALNAP conference in Addis How can people who are caught up in crises have more of a say in what assistance they receive? Sophia Swithern looks at the 29th ALNAP conference and the increasing role of financial transparency in engaging crisis-affected people. Read more... Open Data Day 2014: promise and hope for Nepal's open movement Bhibusan Bista, CEO of Young Innovations, looks back on his highlights from the second Open Data Day celebrations in Kathmandu. The event brought together techies, journalists and civil society organisations to discuss the open movement in Nepal and to participate in interactive workshops on open data. Read more...   Impact investments to end poverty - joint event with Business Fights Poverty All resources flowing to developing countries – domestic and international, public, private and commercial – can be used for ending poverty. Harpinder Collacott introduces our blog series with Business Fights Poverty on the role of the private sector in ending poverty by 2030. Read more... Introducing the Open Development Toolkit - a new partnership between DI and OKF DI is partnering with Open Knowledge Foundation to develop the Open Development Toolkit. The toolkit, which is being lead by Zara Rahman, aims to increase use of open development data, and encourage use of the data to inform decisions within the sector. Read more...
Charting progress – How much aid goes to mobilising domestic resources (DRM)? In 2011 just 0.07% of ODA went to domestic resource mobilisation (DRM) specific projects. Ahead of the Global Partnership meeting in Mexico this April we take a closer look at the figures Read more...	Charting progress – The UK's path to 0.7% of national income provided as aid Analysis of the UK budget shows that Britain is still on track to become the first G7 country to reach the 0.7% target. Official figures should confirm this on 2 April 2014.Read more...

Upcoming DI activity South West International Development Drinks (March 26) ICVA presentation (April 1) Good governance and transparency focus session at GPEDC (April 16)

Upcoming events Preliminary 2013 aid data release by OECD DAC (April 7) World Bank Meetings (March 11 - 13) Global Partnership on Effective Development Cooperation (April 15 - 16)

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