Sentences with phrase «rwandan aid budget»

«Multiple politicians have told us that in order for them to support measures like increased foreign aid budgets, they need to see the constituency first.»

So this is a terrible time for the US to be signaling that it's seeking to cut foreign aid budget that is already only 0.2 % of US national income, less than 1 % of the federal budget.

The proposed cut to the State Department's diplomatic corps and the foreign aid budget are particularly striking, and likely to include security contractors at diplomatic missions abroad after the GOP criticized Democrats for security at the U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, where four Americans died in a 2012 attack.

And in one study in Somalia, researchers found that only 35 percent of a food aid budget went to beneficiaries, compared to a cash program, where 85 percent of aid went to beneficiaries.

Lib Dem candidate for Mitcham and Morden, Claire Mathys says her party would use the foreign aid budget carefully, explaining: «It needs to be for aid.

Remedial action on this front will require extreme vigilance over foreign aid budgets, and careful attention will have to be paid to the Clinton Administration as it tries to square its adherence to an international agreement that flatly rejects abortion as a means of family planning with its commitment to huge increases in U.S. aid funding to organizations that actively promote precisely that evil.

Although the amounts given by churches are tiny compared to the aid budgets of governments, the money has usually been well spent.

Often these orphanages are funded by generous donations, foreign aid budgets and visits from church groups but the supply supersedes the «demand», therefore keeping children in homes and sometime kept intentionally undernourished.

Marking 60 years of Christian Aid Week, Theresa May, Jeremy Corbyn and Tim Farron covered in their write - ups their view on Britain's role in the world covering issues including the aid budget, the refugee crisis and helping to eradicate global poverty.

A CSH program in India that included a food aid component could not function effectively when the food aid budget was cut.

More than half of the U.S. food aid budget is consumed by administrative and transportation expenses.

She will also set out a number of green proposals in a 25 - year plan for the environment including eliminating all avoidable plastic waste by 2042 and a commitment to spend part of the Government's multi-billion annual overseas aid budget on international measures to cut plastic use.

Oxfam are urging Australia's political parties to commit to a major increase in our foreign aid budget and the proportion of it that goes to working with small - scale producers, women especially, to tackle food insecurity in the global south.

If the food security budget were to double by 2016, and the aid program increased to 50 cents in every 100 dollars of government income as both major parties had committed to do, food security would be around 11 % of the aid budget.

The government's plans to protect health and aid budgets have been attacked as unjustified by the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC).

Only weeks ago the Tories had pledged that, although they intended to cut public spending if elected, they would protect overall health and international aid budgets.

Kaminsky has in recent weeks been archly critical of the controversial Common Core standards and raised questions after Republicans successfully pushed for a boost in charter school aid the budget and then received campaign support from the pro-charter organization.

When David Cameron addressed the Conservative Party conference in September, he cited his party's protection of the aid budget as an example of his government's international leadership.

Significant cuts to bilateral aid budgets due to the consolidation of public finances have reduced member states» willingness to pool further resources and competences in Brussels.

Aid budgets are contracting, and provincial reconstruction teams (PRTs) and other subnational civil - military installations — long key international platforms to distribute aid and engage local politics outside Kabul — are closing down.

Kate Osamor, the shadow international development secretary, said: «The Tories have been cutting the aid budget by stealth for years, and they are now arguing over whether to go even further by abandoning the international definition of aid.

Overnight, there were newspaper stories of immediate cuts from the Conservatives, cuts in the arts budget, cuts in the aid budget, cuts in middle class welfare, cuts in defence.

British Prime Minister David Cameron has warned that countries which persecute gay people will find their foreign aid budget cut.

He has cut a quarter of the legal aid budget, set court and tribunal fees at unaffordable levels, and exposed claimants to eye - watering costs bills that wealthy defendants often run up.

Defence secretary Liam Fox «can not support» plans to increase the aid budget to 0.7 % of gross national income, he has said.

Britain would be better able to defend the Falklands if it cuts its aid budget to countries such as India, a former Sea Lord has said.

The public accounts committee warned that officials at the Department for International Development had failed to lay out their plans for mitigating against malpractise in the fragile states where the UK's aid budget is to be spent.

Government plans set for April will cut # 220 million from the # 2 billion annual legal aid budget, predominantly through a 30 % reduction in fees for complex, high - cost cases and an 18 % cut in fees for other crown court work.

Another former minister said: «What does it say to the rest of the Middle East if a senior Cabinet minister in charge of Britain's huge aid budget disappears for 48 hours from a family holiday in Israel and is under the wing of a pro-Israeli lobbyist?»

Conservative backbenchers suggest international aid budget might be used to limit cuts to BBC World Service

In a new report, the aid charity says the practice of double - counting, where rich countries count debt cancellation in their aid budgets, continues and is hiding the real level of aid.

And while the US increased its aid budget by 14 per cent, it remains one of the lowest donors, contributing just 0.19 per cent of its gross national income, compared to 0.33 per cent in the UK and 0.38 per cent in France.

Once this was discounted, aid budgets increased by just nine per cent in 2005 - making it highly unlikely the G8 would meet last year's target of # 50 billion extra by 2010.

In particular, I hope that he will take a look at the overseas aid budget, which is increasing by 37 % in real terms at a time when he intends to implement 16 % cuts to the World Service.

In July, with a minimum of fuss during the Olympic Opening Ceremony, the UK cut its aid budget to Rwanda.

«G8 governments must not continue to double count debt cancellation as part of their aid budget.

Oxfam warns this is far from the 0.7 per cent promised at the United Nations 30 years ago, and says too much of the aid budget - an estimated 40 per cent - is spent on expansive consultants flown in from donor countries.

The continuation of the Rwandan aid budget is a stain on Britain's reputation overseas, but it should also shame us at home.

Mr Osborne said savings made in the health and overseas aid budgets would be recycled back to services.

Tory members do not support protection of the NHS and overseas aid budgets and they oppose 25 % cuts in the defence budget.

«The Tories «will examine the scope for allocating some funding from the international aid budget» to pay for military - backed stabilisation work.»

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Allowing defendants to use funds restrained under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 to fund their private defence in our view would also limit the strain on legal aid budgets.

But after a brief pause and a moment's thought, this instant gesture of mine seems like a step too far; and whilst those factors of inefficiency and waste remain true, beheading the foreign aid budget immediately would create a hydra - like problem, where one problem is removed, more appear in its place.

The government recently announced a re-targeting of the UK overseas aid budget, which will see more money spent in conflict areas.

As a Conservative MP I publicly opposed the increases in the foreign aid budget under Andrew Mitchell's leadership.

«It seems to me a tiny fraction of the aid budget, the welfare budget and of the NHS, so tiny it would hardly affect them, would make an immense difference to defence.

A consultation on aid spending is seeking to establish the most effective ways in which Britain use its aid budget to help lower the number of maternal deaths and newborn deaths caused by a lack of access to basic family planning methods.

Its Budget submission points out that in Canada, where decisive departmental spending cuts quickly reduced a large structural deficit in the 1990s, health and aid budgets were cut like all others.