Sentences with phrase «international aid spending»

Global poverty: During the last recession Ken Clarke, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, cut international aid spending.

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A number of papers seize on the remarks of the former Minister for International Development, Grant Shapps, that Britain's spending on foreign aid is «out of control».

-- Member of Parliament David Yurdiga «The federal government thinks that it is acceptable to run a $ 30 billion deficit and spending billions on foreign aid and international climate change projects, as well as on newcomer settlement programs all the while cutting over $ 100 million from the three northern territories over the course of the next five years.

Washington (CNN)-- The Rev. Franklin Graham spends most of his time running an international aid group called Samaritan's Purse.

The ad and the broader campaign are aimed mostly at a spending measure passed by the Republican - led House of Representatives that cuts $ 61 billion from current spending levels, including cuts to Head Start, the Women Infants and Children (WIC) program and international aid programs.

We spent part of today having hard discussions about relief, international development, aid work, orphan care and prevention, all of the gigantic snarl of issues and mess and problems.

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.

Prior to joining Intelligentsia, Michael spent more than a decade leading coffee projects for the international aid organization CRS, living and working extensively in Mexico, Central America and South America.

Our commitment to ring - fence the budget of the Department for International Development, and meet the target of spending 0.7 % of Gross National Income by 2013 on foreign aid, are founded on our conviction that the issues of development, security and trade are intertwined.

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.

Defence secretary Liam Fox has reopened the debate about Britain's spending on international aid.

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.

«We have transformed the way the department manages its finances, so spending is attached to tangible results on the ground, which are rigorously scrutinised by the new independent aid watchdog,» international development secretary Andrew Mitchell said.

Taxpayers» money could be spent on international aid organisations previously condemned for offering «poor» value for money, MPs have suggested.

Advocates of increased aid spending - including Andrew Mitchell, when he was International Development Secretary - appear to have fallen victim to a fallacy.

International development spending - draft bill The bill would ensure Britain contributes to increased global aid levels necessary to meet the Millennium Development goals.

The defence secretary, Phillip Hammond, made efforts before the last spending review to blend some of his budget with that of overseas aid, but was repulsed by the very tight international definitions of overseas aid set by agencies such as the OECD.

The Department for International Development (DFID) must do more to ensure the money spent by the UK on international aid and development is successfully securing the goal of universal access to quality education for all children, regardless of abInternational Development (DFID) must do more to ensure the money spent by the UK on international aid and development is successfully securing the goal of universal access to quality education for all children, regardless of abinternational aid and development is successfully securing the goal of universal access to quality education for all children, regardless of ability to pay.

Regarded as right of centre, Pritchard nonetheless was one of the first advocates of compassionate conservatism in the United Kingdom and has vocally supported the coalition government's policy of increased spending on international aid.

Per capita spending equates to an estimated # 137 for British citizens on the cause, however, an earner of # 18,000 would pay only # 30 towards international aid.

Britain's focus is on aid, however, after international development secretary Andrew Mitchell announced a 40 % increase in spending to # 710 million yesterday.

And under this government, we will continue to meet the international aid target, spending 0.7 % of our GNI on international development.

With the vast majority of the NIAF project's budget being spent on international consultants, not on new power stations or connections to link poor communities to the grid, it's difficult to imagine a more disastrous use of aid money.

In their report MPs also note the discrepancy between spending levels on nutrition aid and other international projects.

In principle such a bill should have little problem being pushed through as the Conservative party has also pledged to meet the UN target of 0.7 % of national income spent on international aid, though a spokesman for Douglas Alexander, the international development secretary, claimed that the Tories would not back the draft bill.

International aid campaigners welcomed the prime minister's decision to include in his legislative agenda the international development spending draft bill, which will put the government's commitment to spend 0.7 % of national income on development from 2013 on to the sInternational aid campaigners welcomed the prime minister's decision to include in his legislative agenda the international development spending draft bill, which will put the government's commitment to spend 0.7 % of national income on development from 2013 on to the sinternational development spending draft bill, which will put the government's commitment to spend 0.7 % of national income on development from 2013 on to the statute books.

Liberal Democrats also ensured the Coalition Government's commitment to spending 0.7 % of GDP on international aid, and passed legislation to enshrine that commitment into law.

Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, Cameron makes clear that there will be no drastic or sudden change of direction, and that he will not bow to the demands of MPs who want him to abandon the ringfence around spending on international aid or the NHS.

Moran points out that of the $ 67.5 million cut from HIV / AIDS research spending in 2010, $ 32 million was due to cuts by the US National Institutes of Health, and a further $ 17 million was cut by the UK Department for International Development (see «Fighting a killer»).

An international expert panel calculated that $ 1 of overseas aid spent on family planning in a developing country can be «worth» $ 120 of other aid.

U.S. negotiators are trying to at least get developing countries to agree to an international scheme for monitoring, reporting, and verifying (known as MRV in UN-speak) their emissions and how climate change aid is spent before agreeing to the climate fund.

Then he launched an international campaign to distract public policy makers by understating the potential devastation of climate change, while setting up a false choice between spending money addressing global warming or spending instead on eradicating poverty or AIDS.

A recent paper (to be published) to the International Legal Aid Group conference in June 2017 set out the approach of the Legal Aid Board of South Africa — which is a deliverer of services as well as a funder — to building up automated document generation in a standard form throughout the whole of the organisation: «The generation of automated documents for legal process was identified as a tool that can minimise the time spent on drafting documents and effectively free up time for legal practitioners to attend to more complex legal work.»

Given heightened prominence during the recent U.S. election, it has since become a growing concern in Europe and even Canada, where a campaign manager for a federal Conservative Party leadership candidate admitted recently to publishing a fake article online to rile the «left» about the supposed «billions» the Liberal Party was spending on international aid.