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The AidWatch Initiative is a pan-European lobby and campaigns initiative monitoring and advocating on the quality and the quantity of aid provided by EU Member States (EU MS) and the European Commission (EC). The AidWatch network is an active group of civil society aid experts from across the 27 EU Member States, working collectively to hold EU MS to account on their aid quality and quantity commitments. Read more.
European Member States are missing their official development aid targets and jeopardising global efforts to reach the Millennium Development Goals, reveals a new CONCORD report called 'Penalty against Poverty: More and Better EU aid can score Millennium Development Goals’.
The press release makes clear that three is a shortfall of €11bn in funding with some of the EU’s biggest economies – Italy (€4.5bn), Germany (€2.6bn) and France (€800m) – amongst the worst offenders.
Figures released on 17 February by the OECD show that the EU will not meet its 2010 aid targets. The 2010 aid forecast notes the EU is well off track and will miss its collective target of 0.56% of GNI, agreed in 2005 as an interim benchmark towards achieving the UN goal of 0.7% of GNI by 2015 to finance the Millennium Development Goals.
Click here to read the full press release
For more information, please contact Alessandro Bozzini: abozzini@concordeurope.org or +32 2 743 87 64
In the face of the ongoing global upheaval caused by the financial, economic, food and energy crises which have unfolded over recent years, it is more important than ever that the European Union keeps its promises on aid to developing countries which are suffering the worst effects of a crisis they did not create. However, according to the latest information collected by CONCORD’s “AidWatch” initiative, summarised in the briefing “EU Aid in Jeopardy?”, the EU is off-track towards its promised aid targets and many Member States are faltering on their aid commitments.
As developing countries face the full impact of the economic crisis, European governments are falling short by nearly €40bn on their aid promises, a new report from CONCORD.
As Noerine Kaleeba, Chair of ActionAid International, said: 'France, for example, spent 45 times more on bailing out its banks last year, than it did on providing aid for poor countries. Europe needs to refocus its efforts on bailing out the poor'. ¬
Read the press release and for more information have a look at the press pack
Watch the opening of roundtable discussions at the launch of the report
Watch the writer of the report explaining the key facts
Watch Noerine Kaleeba, saying that helping the developing countries to come over the Financial
Crisis is without alternative and that the consequences of not helping would be disastrous.
Watch Aid Watch coordinator explaining why it is important to monitor Aid
Watch Filippo Alessi, Permanent Representation of Italy to the EU, underlining the importance of the annual Aid Watch Report
Renata Hahlen, DG Development says that in times of crisis private money is fast in leaving developing countries
Read the report - Read the summary- Click here to see testimonies from developing countries or pictures. Read other reports about the impacts of the crisis
The study “Czech Development Cooperation at a Crossroads” is a follow-up to the publication “How the Czech Republic Helps” published by the Czech Forum for Development Cooperation (FoRS) in 2008. The new study focuses on the institutional reform of the Czech official development aid (ODA) system, the quantity and quality of current ODA and the implications of financial and economic crisis for the ODA. The Czech Republic is at crossroads - will it choose the right path to responsible and effective donorship, or will it choose limited commitment, inferior aid, and insufficient results? Read the executive summary
With the support of the European Union 
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