Month: December 2013

February 4, 2013 by Melissa Lawson Tearfund partners EFZ with APNAC Zambia Chair, Hon. Cornelius Mweetwa MP This week the Global Organisation of Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC) 5th conference has been taking place in Manila.  But is this just another conference where we meet, talk and then return home with little change?  Should Parliamentarians even… Continue reading Parliamentarians and corruption – the problem or the solution? – Tearfund's Policy Blog

January 28, 2013 by Caroline Maxwell This is a guest blog by Rev Isaac Wheigar.  Isaac is the General Secretary of the Association of Evangelicals of Liberia (AEL), which aims to promote peace through the local church and advocate for the poor and marginalised. Rev Isaac Wheigar, General Secretary of AEL. Source AEL This week… Continue reading Monrovia’s Golden Moment – Tearfund's Policy Blog

December 18, 2012 by laurataylor Apart from being the year of the wonderful London Olympics, 2012 has been the year of the doughnut and sustainable development goals; land grabs and tax dodgers; debate about whether we should give aid to India or to Rwanda; and a new focus on inequality – in the international development NGO… Continue reading What will be the development “buzz words” of 2013? – Tearfund's Policy Blog

January 31, 2013 by laurataylor UK Parliament – home of the International Development Select Committee Contrary to today’s Daily Mail headline, the International Development Select Committee did not actually call for the target of spending 0.7% of aid to be scrapped.  In their response to DFID’s annual report, the Select Committee did argue that the quality of aid… Continue reading We must break out of this “Groundhog Day” debate on aid – Tearfund's Policy Blog

July 10, 2012 by Melissa Lawson The stories continue – investors come in, deplete communities’ natural resources, and the local people receive few (if any) benefits. Yet with such profound challenges, are our efforts enough? Last week I was in Zambia with Tearfund partner EFZ.  As part of this trip, I attended the ‘Alternative Mining… Continue reading ‘Harvesters not investors’ – Tearfund's Policy Blog

May 23, 2013 by Melissa Lawson This week the EITI biennial conference is being held in Sydney – an opportunity for extractives companies, governments and civil society to strengthen their efforts to enhance transparency and tackle the ‘resource curse’. Currently it feels like each day we are taking steps towards transparency –  on Tuesday the… Continue reading Transparency is on the move – the revised EITI standard – Tearfund's Policy Blog

January 10, 2013 by jokhinmaung This blog was published on Reuters Alertnet first here Half of all the food produced globally is wasted and never makes it onto the plate. Half of the food bought in Europe and the US is thrown away. That’s like throwing cash in the bin. The latest report from the Institute of… Continue reading Love food, hate waste – Tearfund's Policy Blog

February 21, 2013 by laurataylor PM official picture from Number 10 website I may regret saying this. As the saying goes, the devil is always in the detail. However, I can’t help wondering if today’s “announcement” by Cameron that some more of the aid budget should be spent by the Ministry of Defence might not be such… Continue reading Was Cameron’s announcement on aid to MoD politically astute? – Tearfund's Policy Blog

August 7, 2012 by sarahwiggins1 If getting climate adaptation finance to poor countries was an Olympic event, and was (just) about being in the lead, then the UK government would have a fair chance of winning us a medal. It’s good, for instance, that the UK has gone to some effort to provide funding for… Continue reading Quick off the blocks for UK climate change adaptation finance? – Tearfund's Policy Blog