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• USAID to Support Climate Change Adaptation in the Philippines

  Posted by Celeste Estrella on 12 March 2010

  Climate change continues to be a hot topic and international discussions on this continue to take place. With climate change being a focus of the Obama administration’s aid agenda, the U.S. Agency for International Development resident mission in the Philippines is currently looking at how this issue can be integrated in its portfolio.   Devex Early Intelligence learned from a representative at the USAID office in Manila that funding levels for the environment have increased spec...

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  • Tags: USAID, Philippines, climate change, environment, Coral Triangle Initiative, biodiversity conservation, health, education, governance, peace and security
  • Posted:03/12/2010 02:31:32 AM | Email | Permalink
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• AfDB Invests in Energy in Namibia

  Posted by Chiara Ma. Francesca de Castro on 08 March 2010

  Adequate supply of electricity is a determining factor in a country’s economic growth and competitiveness. The energy shortage in the southern African region has strongly affected Namibia’s economic growth, rendering efforts to reduce poverty, inequality and unemployment as futile.   The African Development Bank intends to support the implementation of the Namibian government’s action plan to reduce the country’s dependency on South Africa’s energy supply ...

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  • Tags: energy, gas, infrastructure, construction, power supply, power stations, power grids, rural electrification, economic competitiveness, energy source diversification
  • Posted:03/08/2010 06:02:30 AM | Email | Permalink
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• Another Political Unrest, Another Aid Suspension

  Posted by Kristine Jade Tinio on 05 March 2010

  The storyline sounds familiar by now: A country already mired in poverty and bereft of quality social services takes yet another turn for the worse with a mounting political instability often culminating in a coup d’etat. International donor agencies react by freezing development aid.   Guinea and Mauritania were examples of this. The political gridlocks in Madagascar and Zimbabwe also merited aid suspension.   Just last month, Niger hogged international headlines wi...

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  • Tags: Niger, European Commission, European Union, rural development, governance, trade cooperation, budget support
  • Posted:03/05/2010 02:19:51 AM | Email | Permalink
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• World Bank Education Initiative in Chile Still Pending

  Posted by Celeste Estrella on 24 February 2010

  Will the World Bank continue education initiatives in Chile?   In late 2008, Devex Early Intelligence learned than the government of Chile approached the bank for financial assistance for a tertiary education project and technical assistance to the Ministry of Education. Initial discussions indicated that this would be a follow-up to the ongoing tertiary education finance project, which will close this year.   The initiatives were outlined in the World Bank’s 2007-2010 cou...

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  • Tags: World Bank, Chile, education, tertiary education, technical assistance
  • Posted:02/24/2010 02:22:14 AM | Email | Permalink
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• Political Heat Keeps Aid Frozen in Madagascar

  Posted by Chiara Ma. Francesca de Castro on 22 February 2010

  One year of political wrangling and public unrest triggered by an intense rivalry between two leaders has rendered Madagascar’s economy nearly handicapped. The international community applied restrictions on all non-emergency donor assistance for the country until the current government returns to a constitutional order.   The World Bank is among the donor agencies that have placed on hold funding disbursement for all projects. A representative from the bank disclosed to Devex ...

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  • Tags: africa, madagascar, world bank, financial assistance, political crisis, delayed project
  • Posted:02/22/2010 09:45:06 AM | Email | Permalink
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