Sentences with phrase «donor nations»

To examine transparency in more detail, the researchers evaluated donor nations across 24 measures.

Senior author A. David Paltiel, MBA, PhD, professor of Public Health (Health Policy) at the Yale School of Public Health, says, «Our aim is to confront donor nations with the clinical and economic consequences of any decision to substantially cut HIV program funding and to help recipient nations respond in the least harmful ways possible to the actions of countries in the developed world.»

But the recession - hit donor nations, including the US, had then responded «lukewarmly» to the Afghan demand.

The rich donor nations are growing increasingly disillusioned by the UN system, and many of them have openly challenged the WHO's leadership.

Reasons for this vary, but it includes declining donor nation assistance for family planning over the past 17 years, a variety of cultural factors (e.g. prevalence of child marriage, male opposition, and misconceptions about the dangers of contraception).

As such, the country has been seen by forest giants like Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as donor nations like Norway seeking to reduce deforestation and associated emissions, as a model to potentially emulate.

But the amounts of money, the programs and the countries that would qualify for that support and for cost - sharing among donor nations are highly contentious issues unlikely to be settled at Copenhagen.

None of these infrastructures and supporting industries for the rural areas of the world can be built without the backing of the donor nations and multilateral agencies.

He also promises not to yield to pressure from donor nations.

With nearly no regulation from the Haitian government, he notes, there was little to stop each donor nation from insisting that its own companies provide parts.

But donor nations may have to cough up some cash to keep the assessment on track: The IPCC faces a «dire financial situation» because many nations have stiffed the body, chair Robert Watson warned last November.

To apply for the money, nations must send proposals to a committee composed of members from the World Bank and donor nations, says Adams.

On the resulting scorecard, no donor nation scored more than 67 per cent.

At the most recent climate negotiation talks in Copenhagen, even as negotiations on greenhouse gas emissions limits stalled, the parties moved closer to a framework agreement on forest carbon.4 Five donor nations have committed $ 3.5 billion to jump - start a program to reduce emissions from, and increase carbon sequestration in, the world's forests.5

«Falconi headed Ecuador's effort to get international support for the initiative, but Correa said on Saturday the negotiations with donor nations were being handled «shamefully.»

Most of what is called development around the world is really donor nation dollars hiring donor nation contractors to deliver last century's technologies, in such a way that the jobs and the economic benefit go right back to the originating donor country.

For one, the trust building «fast - start» $ 30b promised in Copenhagen and ever since used to sweeten the deal of increased emissions has been proven to be redirected aid money, usually in the form of loans, and usually for projects that the donor nations prioritized (read: creating «enabling» conditions for carbon markets).