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ONE testifies in European Parliament on the need for transparency
Last week ONE Acting Brussels Director, Alexander Woollcombe, spoke at two official hearings in the European Parliament. He drove home the point to MEPs that over 200 000 ONE members have been calling for: we need strong transparency rules for the oil, gas and mining industries.The Foreign Affairs committee ... More
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UK government says energy poverty is unacceptable
UK Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, and Secretary of State for International Development, Andrew Mitchell, announced today that the UK will support two million people in some of the world’s poorest countries access clean and reliable energy.In a press statement released after the Deputy Prime Minister meet with ... More
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Sustainable Energy for All
It is extraordinary that in 2012 nearly 7 in 10 people living in sub-Saharan Africa do not have access to electricity or modern energy sources.The majority of these people have to heat their homes and cook on open fires, using traditional fuels like wood. The smoke and fumes produced ... More
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Get to know your World Bank presidential nominees
In case you haven't heard, three candidates were nominated for World Bank president in March: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the finance minister of Nigeria; Dr. Jim Yong Kim, the President of Dartmouth College; and José Antonio Ocampo, a former finance minister of Colombia and former under-secretary general of the UN. While ... More
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Small Change Big Difference
Today ONE has published new research that shows the impact UK aid spending will have on the lives of some of the poorest people in the world. The UK has committed to hit the UN target to spend 0.7% of national income on aid from 2013, something Chancellor George ... More
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Keeping African citizens' budgets short, simple and to the point
Last week, the International Budget Partnership (IBP) hosted a very informative session about citizens’ budgets, why they’re important, and how they can increase participation and transparency in budgetary processes in developing countries. A citizens’ budget is a short, easy-to-understand summary of government priorities and spending. It is usually the ... More
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ONE reacts to UK’s support for G8 Alliance for Food and Nutrition Security
ONE reacts to the Department for International Development’s announcement that the UK will join G8 nations, African countries, aid agencies and 45 leading multinational and African companies in a new alliance for food and nutrition. More
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Oxfam & ONE welcome EU initiative to prevent yet another crisis in the Horn of Africa
EU Development Ministers, meeting today in Brussels, gave the green light to SHARE - a new European initiative to boost the prevention of hunger and famine in the Horn of Africa. More
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ONE calls on UN High Level Panel to listen to the voices of the world’s poorest
The UN has announced that Prime Minister David Cameron, President of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and President of Indonesia Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will co-chair a UN High Level Panel to advise the United Nations on global development beyond 2015. More