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ZIMBABWE NEWS ZIMBABWEAN NEWS HavenWorks.com/world/zimbabwe capital: Harare, Republic of Zimbabwe, formerly: Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia "International aid agencies -- including the World Food Programme (WFP) -- say about half the Zimbabwean population might be in need of food assistance by the end of the year and that Zimbabwe's current food crisis is mainly man-made." White farmers in Zimbabwe are bracing for new evictions as a deadline expires for them to stop working the land."... www.havenworks.com /world/zimbabwe

INTERNATIONAL AID International Aid is partnering with four Christian Service agencies in the "Alliance for the Rehabilitation of Kosovo" (ARK)—a collaborative effort to aid Kosovar refugees both in Albania and Kosovo. International Aid links caring people and organizations with Christian partners worldwide, changing lives through the power of compassion. Checks should be made out to International Aid and marked "Emergency Relief." For credit card donations, call the International Aid 24-hour hot line at 1-800-251-2502. www.internationalaid.org /links/news/factoid.htm

SocietyGuardian.co.uk Society International aid and development: the issue explained International aid agencies attract more donations from the public than any other charitable cause, beating cancer, children's and animal charities to bring in £486m in 2001-02. People in Aid, the global network of relief, development and advocacy agencies, has also warned of "growing concern over the status of host country staff" and urged that their needs for support and management are treated as seriously as those of "international" staff flown in from outside. International aid and development is one of the most hotly debated areas of the voluntary sector. society.guardian.co.uk /aid/comment/0,14178,1159757,00.html

Pyongyang Square - aid International aid agencies and NGOs arrived mainly after the natural disasters of the mid 90s which crippled the agricultural production. Aid agencies and NGOs rushed in, but were soon confronted with many restrictions on their activities. First called on for assistance in 1995 after floods caused serious food shortages, WFP is now the largest international aid organisation in the DPRK. www.pyongyangsquare.com /aid

Scotland on Sunday - International - Aid agencies fear catastrophe in Zimbabwe THE foreign aid agencies have yet to reach Chadereka, a sleepy village deep in the Zambezi valley, so the pangs of hunger are starting to bite hard. According to aid agencies, more than half of Zimbabwe’s 12.5 million people are going to need urgent food assistance in the coming months. Aid workers say this should be a manageable crisis, but it risks becoming a full-blown disaster. scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /international.cfm?id=907292002

Mercy Corps According to the United Nations, some 2 million people are in desperate need of food and humanitarian aid, and the U.S. Agency for International Development estimates 350,000 people could die in coming months from starvation and disease. A Day in the Life of an Afghan Aid Worker A cooperative of local Mongolian farmers has struck gold by agreeing to sell fresh vegetables to a large mining company. www.MercyCorps.org

CBC News:International aid agencies want free access to any Iraqi refugees International aid agencies want free access to any Iraqi refugees AMMAN - International aid agencies are asking that military forces on all sides allow them secure access in order to help Iraqi civilians and refugees in the event of a war. Aid workers say they fear a U.S.-led invasion of Iraq could lead to a humanitarian disaster if they cannot reach civilians in need quickly enough. www.cbc.ca /stories/2003/03/14/aid030314

International Trade Forum - The quarterly magazine of the International Trade Centre: Humanitarian and Development Procurement - A Vast and Growing Market International aid agencies are aware of the decreasing share of goods and services procured from developing countries and are committed to addressing the issue. International aid agencies also base procurement decisions on ethical and environmental considerations. Other non-UN international aid agencies and NGOs such as OXFAM, Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE), Médecins sans Frontières and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) are also major buyers in the aid market. www.tradeforum.org /news/fullstory.php/aid/382/Humanitarian_and_Development_Procurement_A_Vast_and_Growing_Market.html

An MBendi Profile: Guide to Exporting from South Africa - Tendering with the International Aid Agencies International aid is also channelled through multilateral aid organisations. Aid to Africa: Africa, the continent with the largest number of least developed and developing countries, has emerged as a major recipient of both bilateral and multilateral aid. Aid emanating from these organisations is said to be free of "political strings" and in theory more objective. www.mbendi.co.za /export/sa/tender_int_aid_agencies.htm

Becoming an International Aid Worker Since aid agencies’ work is global, they have truly international workforces; one competes for one’s job with intelligent, skilled, and well-motivated people from all over the world. Aid work is also unlike any other profession in that it is often very difficult to get your foot in the door. Aid Workers Network: ( www.aid workers.net): This forum for aid workers from around the world has a few discussion threads on getting started. www.transitionsabroad.com /publications/magazine/0409/becoming_an_international_aid_worker.shtml

FOX23 -- NEWS Aid agencies and governments spend too little time listening to people on the front line and too much time fueling the "disaster victim cliche," which portrays affected communities as helpless, Red Cross expert Eva von Oelreich said. International Red Cross: aid agencies should listen to disaster victims Helping people to help themselves before, during and after disaster strikes is the key to cutting the impact of catastrophes, said the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in its World Disasters Report. www.fox23news.com /news/world/story.aspx?content_id=763F9610-D729-42F9-92F3-7DA5169429E7

Scotland on Sunday - International - Growing anarchy thwarts aid agencies' mission INTERNATIONAL aid agencies will this week mount their first reconnaissance missions into Iraq as long as coalition forces can restore law and order to the stricken country. With medical and water services on the brink of collapse from Mosul and Kirkuk in the north to Basra in the south, agencies are desperate to get aid teams in to avert a humanitarian crisis that looms while the civil situation remains volatile. The agencies are now hoping that the Iraqi network that distributed 430,000 tonnes of food aid to around 16 million people before the conflict can be reactivated before shortages really start to bite. scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /international.cfm?id=430942003

aid.aspx Such professional communicators must reject out of hand the obvious conclusions symbolized by the white elephants of international ‘aid’ agencies: that ‘aid’ is a waste of money and time, that its results are fundamentally bad, and that ---far from being increased--- it should be stopped forthwith before more damage is done. With international ‘aid’ to soon reach $100 billion a year (from $60 billion), it will be the final kick in the teeth of the poor, crippling further their Third World economies. Small wonder, then, the effects of ‘aid’ are so often vicious and destructive for the most vulnerable members of the human society. www.thezambian.com /Reports/aid.aspx

CNN.com - Rula Amin: Aid agencies can't enter Jenin - April 13, 2002 CNN.com - Rula Amin: Aid agencies can't enter Jenin - April 13, 2002 And those U.N. agencies and aid agencies have been trying to get in to assess the damage in order to mobilize supplies and aid. JENIN, West Bank (CNN) -- Israeli forces rolled into two more West Bank villages early Saturday, while international aid agencies continued their attempts to enter the Jenin refugee camp that was the scene of bloody fighting earlier this week. www.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/meast/04/13/amin.otsc

International Aid - Social and Economic Policy - Global Policy Forum Aid agencies argue that the European Union (EU) must redouble its anti-poverty commitments to meet the Millennium Development Goals. Aid also often has political strings attached and it may be used to promote local business interests of the donor, not the real development needs of the recipient. International aid from Britain is supplied to poor countries on the proviso that recipient governments privatize their services such as water and healthcare. www.globalpolicy.org /socecon/develop/oda

peaceofpie.htm Aid that empowers communities to be pro-active, to be able to critically assess the effectiveness of projects, to initiate self-help activities, and to develop negotiative capacity at the local and national level. Aid should not be used as an alibi for, or lead to the maintenance or expansion of abusive practices, nor should it justify decreased national commitment to civil institutions Aid that actively supports and does not undermine dialogue and national reconciliation. www.ibiblio.org /obl/docs/peaceofpie.htm

allRefer Reference - Bhutan - The Economy, Bhutan - The Economic Context Bhutanese Information Resource Bhutan, recognized by international aid agencies as one of the poorest of the least developed countries of the world, had a primarily subsistence agricultural economy in the early 1990s. reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/bhutan/bhutan43.html

UK Indymedia International Aid Agencies Call For Unrestricted Movement For All Report on movement restrictions and checkpoints in Palestine, with a call for their removal from a long list of international aid agencies. International Aid Agencies Call For Unrestricted Movement For All On Monday, June 2nd, 2003, five humanitarian aid employees from one organization spent a total of 18 hours waiting at checkpoints. www.indymedia.org.uk /en/2003/09/278249.html

Foreign Aid and International Crises American assistance comes in various forms—grants and loans for bilateral projects, primarily through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), as well as credit from U.S.-funded multilateral agencies, including the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, to underwrite borrower development projects and provide aid for structural economic reforms. Other nations and international aid agencies have provided hundreds of billions of dollars more. International comparisons are obviously fraught with difficulty, but aid levels don't correlate with economic growth, and many of the biggest recipients of foreign assistance, such as Bangladesh, Egypt, India, Sudan, and Tanzania, have been among the globe's worst economic performers. www.fee.org /vnews.php?nid=3648

International Trade Forum - The quarterly magazine of the International Trade Centre: Buying from Africa for Africa And finally, we believe trade promotion organizations will be in a better position to advise national enterprises on how to win bids and supply international aid agencies. Partners include international aid agencies, both United Nations (UN) organizations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), which foresee a number of genuine advantages in local sourcing. To foster this potential, ITC is implementing a specific technical cooperation programme, with the participation of a number of international aid agencies. www.tradeforum.org /news/fullstory.php/aid/378/Buying_from_Africa_for_Africa.html

About Travelers Aid International Travelers Aid International, through its network of 45 member agencies and more than 500 cooperating representatives, serves individuals and families in crisis due to homelessness, mobility or other disruptive circumstances. Vocational training for international refugees, transitional housing for homeless families, assistance in securing employment for newcomers to the community, outreach to homeless teens, aid in securing disability entitlements and health care for homeless people are all ways in which Travelers Aid International members work to help people make a transition to more stable, productive lives. The first Travelers Aid was founded in 1851 in St. Louis, which makes Travelers Aid the oldest, non-sectarian social welfare movement in America. www.travelersaid.org /about.htm

International Non-Governmental Aid Agencies and Dalit issues The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of the quantum of foreign aid contributed to Indian development and the role played by International non-Governmental development aid agencies and Bi-lateral and Multi-lateral agencies in this area. At the moment the support from International non-Governmental aid agencies is given to the local NGOs with the understanding that they work with the poor who make up 34.6% of the total population (346 million). International agencies may specialise in one area, such as on children or on agriculture. www.ambedkar.org /Worldwide_Dalits/intl_aid_addressing_dalit_issues.htm

Malaysian National News Agency :: BERNAMA WINDHOEK, Oct 24 (SNNi/NAMPA) - Aid and development agencies in Britain have recognised that climatic changes are the most serious problem facing the poor of the world. This was a significant shift in position for the development agencies especially some of which have in the past seen environmental concerns as a side issue, compared with the immediate and pressing task of relieving mass poverty in Africa and other developing regions. But the agencies say they can no longer ignore their own evidence that the effects of global warming are already being directly felt by the world's poorest people and countries. www.bernama.com.my /bernama/v3/news.php?id=100165

Population And The Environment: A Bibliography International aid agencies' single-minded pursuit of population control at the expense of basic health care, education, economic reform, and women's social equality ignores the very things which help women to not need large families for economic survival. The obsession of governments and western aid agencies with population control, the author asserts, has lead to the violation of basic human rights of many poor women all over the developing world. Aid workers, political activists, child advocates and others explain the dangers and hardships that face these children, but the most moving evidence comes from the children themselves. egj.lib.uidaho.edu /egj02/groat01.html

DAWN - International; 05 April, 2003 GENEVA, April 4: International aid agencies on Friday said they were alarmed by the number of civilian casualties in the war in Iraq and their inability to reach many of the wounded. GENEVA, April 4: International aid convoys have started to trickle into southern Iraq, where an estimated 1.5 million people without water are the top target for assistance, UN agencies and the Red Cross said on Friday. COLOMBO, April 4: Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels on Friday accused the United States of trying to undermine their peace bid with the government by excluding them from a key aid meeting in Washington. dawn.com /2003/04/05/int.htm

BBC NEWS World Middle East Aid agencies condemn Israel With the Palestinian economy in severe crisis, 32 aid agencies are now appealing to Israel to allow them unrestricted access to a people in growing need. An official has said that Israel is in contact with aid agencies and donor countries to ensure relief reaches the Palestinians via Israeli checkpoints rather than through the Palestinian Authority, which the government views as corrupt. More than 30 international aid agencies working in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have accused Israel of obstructing their operations to the point that they can no longer fulfil their mandates. news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_2093000/2093120.stm

BBC NEWS Middle East Iran earthquake: How to help Global aid agencies have launched urgent appeals for donations to help those affected by the earthquake in Bam, Iran. International aid charity Islamic Relief has also urged people to donate and has provided a list of phone numbers on its website at www.islamic-relief.com. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has launched an appeal for $42m to help an estimated 210,000 people through the winter months. news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/3355029.stm

International Aid & Trade Africa 2003 The purpose of this event is to allow the aid agencies and the private sector to look at how they can work more closely to develop sustainable solutions to increase the efficiency of aid delivery, in both the immediate and long term. To make the most of the resources at their disposal, aid agencies are reliant to a certain extent on the ability of commercial concerns to provide salient solutions, including transportation, logistical support and some maintenance services. Consisting of a Conference and Exhibition together with a series of Business Seminars on how to do business with the international aid agencies, this event will focus on evaluation and definition of humanitarian aid solutions. www.mbendi.co.za /iat

International aid agencies help flood victims in India Aid agencies are desperately trying to reach areas in India ravaged by floods. International aid agencies help flood victims in India Belinda Coote is from the British-based aid agency, Oxfam which has responded to the call for help. www.netlondon.com /news/2000-32/0DA6037750112D4A802.html

PM - Call for international aid agencies to help indigenous communities Now our highest ranking indigenous Police Officer is calling for international aid agencies which specialist in third world relief to help improve their conditions. Now, we've carefully sought out agencies like Community Aid Abroad and another organisation centre for appropriate technology who have very impressive and proven international records in developing third world countries. But Community Aid Abroad's Executive Director, Jeremy Hobbs, says his Organisation could help to turn the communities around. www.abc.net.au /pm/stories/s114184.htm

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