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    • Australian NGOs call for West Saharan human rights activist to be allowed to return home
  • Media statements
• AusAID and ACFID sign new partnership agreement
• Quarterly report on activities of the WASH Reference Group
• WHO report: 'Global Tuberculosis Control 2009: Epidemiology, Strategy, Financing'
• Former NZ prime minister confirmed as new head of UNDP
• New monthly discussion series aims to help stimulate development ideas and exchanges
• ACFID information sheets: new resources now available on ACFID website
• New ICRC/IFRC web portal launched to raise awareness of humanitarian challenges
• New Crisis Group report: 'Development Assistance and Conflict in Sri Lanka'
• New Oxfam report 'The Right to Survive: The humanitarian challenge for the twenty-first century'
• 'Managing the downturn' survey: have your say
• Many countries on track to achieve 80% primary school completion rate by 2015
• New ADB report: 'The Economics of Climate Change in Southeast Asia: A Regional Review'
• Marc Purcell appointed Executive Director of ACFID
• World Bank and IMF Global Monitoring Report 2009 warns of a 'development emergency''
• Burma's hardest hit face abandonment as cyclone aid dries up
• New book: 'Knowledge to Policy: Making the Most of Development Research'
• Lancet article says world is off track to achieve health-related targets of the MDGs
• Australia welcomes reappointment of WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy
• AusAID media release: 2009-10 International Development Assistance Budget
• ACFID media release: Aid budget falls behind escalating global poverty
• ACFID media release: Australian NGOs stand ready to expand assistance in Sri Lanka
• 2008 Humanitarian Accountability Report launched during 7th HAP General Assembly, May 2009
• ACFID media comment: AusAID-Defence Strategic Partnership Agreement
• 10th annual 'State of the World's Mothers' report finds Sub-Saharan Africa the most difficult place to be a mother
• 'All in Diary' handbook for humanitarian workers: new information sheets now available
• PATH's 'Call to Action' on diarrheal disease: nearly 90 NGOs signed on
• Vanuatu-Australia Partnership for Development signed in Canberra on 27 May
• Updated ANCP reform documentation available on AusAID website
• New UNDP report aims to identify the issues and challenges faced by women and girls with disabilities in the Pacific
• Bangladesh: water sources contaminated after Cyclone Aila
• OHCHR: Prioritising Human Rights
• AngliCORD appoints Ms Misha Coleman as new CEO
• Second Emerging Pacific Leaders’ Dialogue (EPLD), March 2010: applications close Friday 17 July
• IRIN launches pilot series of audio interviews aimed at stimulating debate on humanitarian issues
• New UNICEF report says South Asia now the poorest part of the world
• UNSW now taking semester 2 enrolments for Master of Public Health in International Health and Development
• Refugee Council media release: 'UNHCR figures highlight need to support refugee host countries'
• 'Bots without borders': future potential for automating humanitarian relief activities
• Disability Inclusive Development CBM-Nossal Partnership Forums
• Government guidelines to safeguard non-profit organisations against terrorism financing released
• Recent gains in eradicating hunger and poverty endangered by economic and food crises: UN MDG report
• Up-to-date reports from the 5th IAS Conference on HIV being held in Cape Town
• AusAID media release: Increased Support for Stronger Regional Economic Growth
• New Oxfam report on climate change in the Pacific highlights need for urgent action
• ACFID media release: Pacific trade deal must deliver a development dividend
• Review of Volunteering Australia's national standards for involving volunteers: phase 1 completed
• IRIN launches a new series of short films on displacement
• ACFID development effectiveness research: new phase
• Australian Government releases climate change policy document
• Final Communique of 40th Pacific Islands Forum, Cairns
• ACFID releases report on human rights consultation with members
• New RESULTS Australia report exposes education gap in the Asia-Pacific region
• AusAID media release: Partnership to Advance Gender Equality in Developing World
• Annual review of development effectiveness tabled in Parliament
• ACFID media release: Inaugural World Humanitarian Day
• AusAID's revised family planning guidelines now available
• New Crisis Group report: 'Myanmar: Towards the Elections'
• New legislation in Zambia concerns NGOs
• 'Going Beyond Gender as Usual: Why and How Global HIV/AIDS Donors Can Do More for Women and Girls': CGD Brief
• Human Ecology Forum, Canberra 18 September: Restoring wetlands with disadvantaged and rural communities in South Africa
• World Development Report 2010: Development and Climate Change
• Theme for National Volunteer Day 2010 announced
• Fred Hollows Foundation marks World Sight Day with a photographic exhibition in Sydney
• UNICEF releases figures indicating global child mortality rates continue to drop
• Improving the health of adolescent girls: Q&A with CDG vice president Ruth Levine
• Australian partnership with UNAIDS to strengthen efforts to halt HIV
• New ABS report emphasises enormous contribution of non-profit organisations
• 2010 Global Health Council conference: call for abstracts
• G20 Pittsburgh Summit: leaders' statement released
• Australia commits new finance to health MDGs
• Australian assistance in the wake of natural disasters in the region
• ACFID Media Release - Australian NGOs send relief to Asia and the Pacific
• 'Because I am a Girl': Plan launches 2009 State of the World's Girls report
• International Day for Disaster Reduction: AusAID event, 14 October, Canberra
• Call for expressions of interest for new Australian Government volunteer program
• Stand Up! Take Action launches new video: 'You Can End Poverty'
• 'Meeting the Millennium Development Goals: Old Problems, New Challenges', Melbourne 30 Nov-1 Dec: conference undate
• ACFID media release: More asylum seekers will come unless push factors tackled
• Foreign Minister and Minister for Defence announce further Australian assistance to Samoa and Tonga
• ACFID Council 2009, 29-30 October: 'Women and children as the foundation of development'
• 'Towards good humanitarian government - the role of the affected state in disaster response': new HPG policy brief
• ACFID Awards 2009 presented at Council
• The Hon Dr Meredith Burgmann is the new president of ACFID's Executive Committee
• ACFID Annual Report 2009: now available online
• Upcoming ADG discussion forum: Ask the disaster management specialist
• New CIVICUS publication: 'From Political Won’t to Political Will'
• Three young Australians selected to attend British Council Global Youth Summit in London this month
• July-December 2009 quarterly report on activities of the WASH Reference Group now available
• UNICEF exhibition celebrating 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Sydney 19-30 November
• ChildFund Australia launches short film to celebrate 20th anniversary of Convention on the Rights of the Child
• Opportunity International Australia call for applications for 2010 Internship program
• Center for Global Development climate change survey in lead-up to Copenhagen conference
• World Bank announces a new policy on access to information
• UNE calling for input into creation of Master of Environmental Advocacy degree
• Center for Global Development deforestation alarm system now online
• Save the Children report sets out how governments can reduce child hunger and malnutrition
• Plan Australia's summer edition of 'Global Child' now available online
• International Volunteer Day and release of national survey of volunteering issues: Saturday 5 December
• On 21st anniversary of World Aids Day, Government announces $3 million to HIV prevention programs
• New IFRC report: 'Hunger, disaster, hope: rethinking humanitarian action in Africa'
• New Master of Natural Hazards program at The Australian National University
• Revised ACFID Code of Conduct and Code Guidance Document now available
• National survey of volunteering issues released on International Volunteer Day, 4 December
• New 5-year action plan comes out of Cartagena Summit on a Mine-Free World
• World Challenge 09 winners announced at awards ceremony in The Hague
• Health Issues & Humanitarian Emergencies professional development short course planned for late 2010
• Global Climate Risk Index 2010 released at Copenhagen conference
• ACFID media release expresses concern that shadow cabinet no longer has aid and development portfolio
• International Human Rights Day 2009 focuses on non-discrimination
• ACFID media release: Australian NGOs call for West Saharan human rights activist to be allowed to return home
• Community-based Adaptation Activity Grants aim to increase resilience of Pacific communities to unavoidable impacts of climate change
• New Lowy Institute Policy Brief: 'Obama's surge: The United States, Australia and the second war for Afghanistan'
• AusAID media release: Development Assistance Partnerships with five ACFID members; and new Civil Society Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Fund
• New study finds maternal and newborn deaths could be slashed if world doubled investment in family planning and pregnancy care
• Refugee policy advocacy group A Just Australia (AJA) combines with Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA)
• Please note: DFAT has updated their consolidated list
• 2010 ACFID Humanitarian Forum - 'Working in insecure environments: a practitioner's perspective'
• Tsunami 5th anniversary photo gallery looks back at the effects of the disaster on the worst-hit area of Aceh
• Presentations from 2009 WVA Measuring Effectiveness conference now available online
• New interactive mapping website shows links between climate change and population
• ACFID Training news: Registrations for Introduction to Sector workshop open
• Australian emergency relief assistance for Solomon Islands following earthquakes
• New Chief of USAID sees US listening more and forging deeper partnerships
• New joint NGO report: 'Rescuing the Peace in Southern Sudan'
• Community sector industry issues forum: Canberra 18 February 2010
• New OECD DEV Working Paper: 'Crushed aid: Fragmentation in sectorial aid'
• AusAID media release: Australian Government assistance to Haiti
• Jubilee Australia releases major investigative report for 2009: 'Risky Business'
• Council for Australian-Arab Relations grants for activities involving Arab region: applications close 1 March
• Bob McMullan, Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance, announces his retirement from parliament
• AusAID media release: Australia increases emergency assistance to Haiti
• Development in Haiti: Q&A with CDG Vice President Ruth Levine
• HAITI: Rebuilding health sector is 'long-term challenge', IRIN news report
• One Just World upcoming forum: What responsibilities do Australians owe the global poor?
• AusAID news: Stephen Smith visits Botswana and South Africa
• 4636 texting service helping in Haiti
• Rotary World Peace Fellowships and Peace & Conflict Studies Program: call for applications
• Human Rights Watch: World Report 2010 released
• AusAID media release: More Pacific Islanders to Benefit from Australian Support for Microfinance
• ActionAid-ANU Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy climate change roundtable: Canberra, 24 February
• 6th annual human rights International Leadership Programme: call for applications
• ACFID media comments on Barnaby Joyce and aid
• DFAT's Consolidated List has been updated
• Upcoming ADG forum: Ask the development practice/effectiveness specialist
• ActionAid/Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy climate change roundtable, Canberra 24 February: register now
• AusAID media release: $10 million to boost agribusiness in the Pacific
• ACFID Humanitarian Forum, April 2010: early bird registrations close tomorrow 15 February
• WANGO World Congress of NGOs to be an online conference this year
• Lectures and interviews from 2009 La Trobe Uni MDG conference now available
• Cluster bomb ban treaty reaches 30th ratification milestone and will become binding international law on 1 August 2010
• ALNAP State of the Humanitarian System report launched
• New ALNAP Haiti Learning and Accountability Portal useful tool for those interested in tracking the recovery stage
• Crawford Fund Fellowship 2010: opportunity for developing country agricultural scientists
• Introduction to Mandala Foundation services: information session, Melbourne, Friday 26 February
• New UNIFEM publication: 'Making the MDGs Work Better for Women'
• 'Haiti: from tragedy to opportunity' - ICRC special report one month on
• ACFID response to AFR article 'African aid not linked to UN seat bid', published 23 February
• Leading scientist says total testing could beat AIDS within 5 years
• ACFID training: places still available for March 2010 'Introduction to the sector' workshops
• 'Gender Perspectives on the Global Economic Crisis': new Oxfam International discussion paper
• 'Humanitarian Horizons: A Practitioners’ Guide to the Future': HFP and FIC report
• Distance Learning For Development (DL4D): University of London
• Human Rights Watch article: 'Haiti: Quake Victims Vulnerable as Rainy Season Looms'
• New AusAID volunteer program: comments on draft framework due 4 March
• AusAID media release: Australian assistance to Chile
• Notice of changes to the terrorist asset freezing consolidated list
• ACFID Training news: Registrations for Sydney Introduction to Sector closed
• ADG: Upcoming Q&A on gender equality with Dr Julia Newton-Howes, CEO CARE Australia
• 'Microfinance's Midlife Crisis': Is the microfinance industry losing sight of its mission to alleviate poverty?
• ACFID Code of Conduct Committee: Dr Sue-Anne Wallace appointed Chair
• National Close the Gap Day 2010: Thursday 25 March
• UNIFEM launches 'Virtual Knowledge Centre to End Violence Against Women and Girls'
• On International Women's Day Australian Government announces increased support for women in conflict situations
• UNAIDS launches 5-year action plan to address gender inequalities and human rights violations
• New online postgraduate course for field staff in humanitarian action and conflict
• 'Microphilanthropy' campaign makes it easy for Americans using travel websites to donate to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria
• ACFID DPC senior practitioners' seminar: Alternative Approaches to Design, Melbourne 31 March
• ACFID opinion piece published on 'Indonesian ties strong enough to stand straight talk on Papua'
• Launch of Australian Government aid strategy to improve poor people's access to financial services
• First and final call for abstracts for 13th National Conference on Volunteering: deadline 16 April
• ACFID training update: upcoming workshops and seminars
• Notice of changes to the terrorist asset freezing consolidated list
• Make the Fairtrade chocolate choice this Easter
• Input into NGO report on Australia and racism
• Australian Government announces $11M package of humanitarian assistance to Somalia, the DRC and Kenya
• ACFID assisting members support High Court appeal by AidWatch
• ACFID training: full details of Code Annual Report and Overall Compliance Workshops now available
• Notice of corrections to terrorist asset freezing consolidated list
• Mandala Foundation staff support training workshops, April 2010
• World Challenge 2010: call for nominations of projects and small businesses which have made a diference at a grassroots level
• Australian Government and 'third sector' sign up to national compact
• ACFID Member Information Forums: registrations for next week's forums extended to COB Monday
• AusAID media release: Australia's commitment to Pacific Islands Forum