International Development Secretary Justine Greening last night called on international donors to do more to make their aid delivery more transparent. Launching the UK’s Aid Transparency Challenge, she set out how DFID will require any organisation it works through to adhere to International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) standards of transparency and accountability for their disbursement of DFID funds.

11/30/2012 12:41 GMT

LONDRES, 30 nov 2012 (AFP) - Le Royaume-Uni a annoncé vendredi le gel de 25,9 millions d'euros de son aide au développement au Rwanda en raison de ses "inquiétudes" vis-à-vis du soutien du régime de Kigali aux rebelles du M23 qui opèrent en République démocratique du Congo (RDC) voisine.

La décision de la ministre britannique de l'Aide au développement, Justine Greening, suit celle, hautement polémique de son prédécesseur Andrew Mitchell, qui avait levé partiellement en septembre le gel de l'aide au Rwanda, décrété en juillet.

Evidence of Rwandan state support for M23 rebels 'credible and compelling', ministers say

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Why has David Cameron's pledge to increase UK aid angered critics? Is the government's justification for spending more on aid moral or pragmatic, and what has UK aid achieved so far?

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UK GOVERNMENT URGED TO SUPPORT MALAWI

NEW REPORT: The Development Situation in Malawi

The Government should re-instate its programme of General Budget Support for Malawi, according to MPs on the International Development Committee.

LONDRES, 22 mai 2012 (IRIN) - Un fauteuil roulant robuste conçu pour les situations d'urgence, un réseau de stations de radio locales qui fournit en temps réel la carte des crises en cours, un ensemble d'idées pour améliorer la redevabilité dans les programmes gérés à distance : toutes ces idées sont originales et ont été financées par un fonds créé spécialement pour favoriser de nouvelles façons de penser la pratique humanitaire.

LONDON, 21 May 2012 (IRIN) - A sturdy wheelchair specially designed for emergency situations; a network of local radio stations providing real-time mapping of developing crises; a compendium of ideas for getting better accountability in remotely managed programmes - they are all original ideas and all have been funded from a special pot of money created to foster new thinking in humanitarian practice.

Abstract: Concerns have been raised that the United Kingdom is reshaping its development approach in order to put its own security interests ahead of those of the poorest – what has been referred to as a 'securitisation of aid’.

More fundamentally, practical attempts at better integrating development and security have frequently been hampered by simplistic understandings of the relationship. As explored in this Working Paper, this has resulted in a lack of innovative approaches for better securing development outcomes and supporting peace.

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