Sentences with phrase «foreign aid agencies»

Foreign aid agencies said relief resources were stretched thin after a big earthquake in central Bohol province last month and displacement caused by fighting with rebels in the country's south, complicating efforts to get supplies in place before the storm struck.

While in Malawi, we visited sites that work with and benefit from foreign aid agencies and organizations, including villages and farms that specifically work with Heifer.

My husband's job at USAID — the foreign aid agency that is part of the State Department — had taken us to New Delhi.

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Diplomacy and foreign aid would face a 37 percent cut that would be felt across the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development.

That is, a private or publicly - owned American company operating in a foreign country — and Canada is in this context a foreign country — receives aid from the U.S. government that, as the Canadian government's legislation describes, appears to constitute direct or indirect influence by a government or agency.

The days and weeks of commemoration organized at the secular level by bodies such as the United Nations Organization and its related agencies can help orient the eucharistic communities also to issues such as children's rights, women's emancipation, the aged, foreign debt, peace, environment, food, employment, AIDS, drugs, crime, cancer... etc..

What's coming is an administration in which the U.S. Agency for International Development, which dispenses billions of dollars of foreign aid, will continue to condition that aid on recipient nations» bowing to the LGBT agenda — thus making enemies for America in traditional societies and cultures that will learn to equate «democracy» with libertine bullying.

The sheer numbers of foreign personnel and agencies operating at the subnational level — all responding to a higher - level focus on «burn rates» — further fueled the disparate character of aid distribution.

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He noted that the government's quest to build an economy independent of foreign aid and support will greatly rely on the Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MMDAs.

Schlachter said her organization is preparing to find ways to fill this gap but hopes Congress will be able to negotiate some funding for USAID, the government agency that distributes civilian foreign aid.

Solar project up and running in 12 months Financial support for Power Africa has extended beyond the State Department's initial $ 7 billion commitment to include contributions from other agencies, such as the Millennium Challenge Corp., created by Congress in 2004 to link foreign aid to good governance.

The White House has not said exactly how it would reduce nondefense spending by $ 54 billion to the targeted $ 461 billion, but has promised to slash foreign aid, the Environmental Protection Agency, and programs that address climate change.

Funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) of the U.S. Ethiopia mission, seed relief complemented international and national food aid, helping farm families to quickly grow crops after several seasons of erratic or failed rains in Ethiopia and the catastrophic 2015 - 16 El Niño droughts.

Socio (s): IFAD, ILO, CGAP, Asian Development Bank, Agence Française de Developpement, UK Department for International Development, Australian Government Overseas Aid Program, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland, Ford Foundation, Government of Canada, Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y de Cooperacion, Agencia Espanola de Cooperacion Internacional para el Desarrollo, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit, Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, European Commission, European Investment Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Ministère des Affaires Etrangères et Européennes de la République Francaise, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany, Inter-American Development Bank, Japan, Italian Republic, The Netherlands, NORAD, Swiss Confederation, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, United States Agency for International Development, KfW Bankengruppe, FMO Finance for Development, Omidyar Network

Are climate finance contributor countries, multilateral aid agencies and specialized funds using widely accepted best practices in foreign assistance?

European Union: Commission Directorate General (DG) Environment LIFE Programme; DG Development and Cooperation - Europe Aid; Education, Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency; the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs; European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe; European Climate Foundation; German Federal Ministry for the Environment (Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety); Isvara Foundation; James M.Goldsmith Foundation; Stichting Adessium; Mava Foundation; The Grassroots Foundation; GAIA; The Jennifer Altman Foundation; Zero Waste Europe; and EASME (European Commission — Executive Agency for Small and Medium - sized Enterprises.)