1. The Multilateral Aid Review was commissioned to assess the value for money for UK aid of funding through multilateral organisations. Forty-three organisations were assessed. Nine were deemed to offer very good value for money, sixteen to offer good value for money, nine to offer adequate value for money, and nine to offer poor value for money for UK aid.

2. The organisations covered by the review ranged from multilateral development banks to UN specialised agencies, and from development finance institutions to humanitarian organisations.

Cáritas. 28 de febrero de 2011.- El Gobierno de Burkina Faso ha distinguido a Carluccio Giannini, técnico de Cáritas Española responsable de los proyectos para el Sahel, como Caballero de la Orden Nacional del Mérito, en la sección de Acción Social. La entrega de ese galardón tuvo lugar el pasado 11 de febrero de 2011 en Uagadugú, al término de un simposio sobre el tema "El compromiso de la Iglesia, Familia de Dios", en un sencillo acto donde, junto al técnico de Cáritas

The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation says thousands of infants in developing countries could be needlessly infected with HIV if the cuts get final approval. The foundation operates programs to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa.

Last week, the House of Representatives passed legislation cutting hundreds of millions of dollars from PEPFAR - the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief -- and the Global Fund

Alors que les instances régionales et internationales ont à plusieurs reprises exhorté M. Gbagbo à céder la place, les sanctions et les efforts de médiation sont bien incapables de débloquer l'impasse. M. Gbagbo et M. Ouattara ont des administrations rivales et

* 1,800 cases remain, mostly in South Sudan

* Eradication of disease in a few years -Jimmy Carter

By Matthew Bigg

ATLANTA, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Nigeria has halted transmission of Guinea worm disease, bringing closer the moment when a disease is eradicated from the planet for just the second time in history, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said on Thursday.

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The loan and grant agreement for the Fostering Agricultural Productivity Project was signed today in Rome by Gaoussou Drabo, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Republic of Mali to IFAD and Kanayo F. Nwanze, President of IFAD.

Poverty rates in Mali are high, especially in rural areas. Food insecurity and malnutrition have been aggravated by

As part of IOM efforts to track population movements caused by the political stalemate and violence in the West African country in order to ensure those that need help are given it, the Organization has so far gathered information of nearly 82,000 people who have either been internally displaced or have crossed the border into or through any one of Côte d'Ivoire's five neighbouring countries.