Development Results: “Irish Aid values hard won change and not just ‘quick wins’.”

Irish Aid recently set out its thinking about “Development Results”. And it is encouraging stuff, from which other Government donors could learn.

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Reviewing Ireland’s development policy – the major issues

The review of the Government White Paper on Irish Aid is getting into full swing. Irish Aid has recently added some information on the review to its website and they also plan to publish a Review discussion document by December.

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NGO mergers – Make sense, don’t they?

Should NGOs merge to save money and increase impact?

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Including older people in development policy & practice

This blog post explains why ageing is increasingly a development issue, and what we can do to ensure unintentional discrimination against older people in development practice.

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Famine in Somalia – Lessons learned from other droughts

Over many years of responding to droughts, Irish NGOs have learned a number of important lessons about the complex relationships between drought, food scarcity and famine.

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Despite the hunger crisis, 2 out of 3 developing countries are on track to halve poverty.

New reports from the World Bank and the UN show that, despite the bad news from the Horn of Africa, substantial progress is being made in the vast majority of developing countries.

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Discussing Ireland’s aid programme

In recent times, there have been a (admittedly small) number of media commentators questioning whether Ireland can afford to continue to give overseas aid, and whether aid actually works.

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Policy Coherence for development….Trade

Another blog post by Michael McManus, explaining how trade and Irish trade policy affect developing countries. Many references to EU and WTO rules and policies.

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Irish NGOs ready to play their part in Review of White Paper on Irish Aid

On 12 June Jan O’Sullivan, Minister of State for Trade and Development, announced that a review of Ireland’s Aid Policy will take place over the next 12 months. This post presents some basic information about the White Paper on Irish Aid, the review process and why Irish NGOs should get involved.

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Ireland “determined to keep its shoulder to the wheel” on HIV & AIDS

The recent UN summit on HIV & AIDS shows Ireland continues to focus on the fight against HIV & AIDS. And we have some figures on how much of Ireland’s overseas aid programme is spent on HIV & AIDS work.

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