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Oxfam has launched its long awaited new campaign Grow. The campaign was revealed to the world on the 1st June with a strong social media and billboard presence and a fair bit of press attention in the UK. Already people are saying that the new campaign will be bigger than the 2005 Make Poverty History campaign.

NGO's have reacted mostly disappointment to the Deauville Declaration with its lack of commitments, specifics and wierd inclusion of two sets of numbers on the progress on their pledges.

French HIV/AIDS groups took centre stage in the G8 International Media Centre as Miss Promises paraded through the centre to highlight the lack of progress by the G8 to deliver on HIV/AIDS pledges.

Veteran G8 campaigners, Oxfam, have kicked of the G8 Summit week by rolling out their famous G8 big heads for a game of bluff to demand the G8 recommit to Muskoka, L'Aquilla and Gleneagles Commitments.

(NEW: Transparency International & Jubilee Debt added)
The NGO community is preparing for this week's G8 and issuing their policy positions and actions. Here is a table of those actions along with links to the papers.

Updated: The G8 released its 2011 Accountability Report which reviews the progress member countries have made to meet their previous commitments. The NGO community is not impressed and have accused the G8 of whitewashing the real figures.

Less than 24 hours after the IMF Managing Director was arrested at JFK airport in New York, a new NGO website has been launched to campaign on the IMF's selection process for its Managing Director. While Mr Strauss-Kahn's arrest was a shock, the NGO community had been preparing for avacancy at the IMF as it was thought DSK would be stepping down in June to prepare for French elections in 2012.

The ONE Campaign launches its 2011 DATA Report on the 16th May at the sametime as the Financial Times reveals the 2011 G8 Accountability Report will attempt to cover up the failure to meet the 2005 Gleneagles Commitments. Oxfam win the best quote of the day by accusing the G8 of cooking the books.

Here is an up-dated list of the current G20 Working Group on Development ministers as of the 14th May.

The Gates Foundation held its second consultation with civil society for Bill Gates' report on development finance to be delivered at the Cannes G20. The consultation is the second of three such meetings scheduled to help inform Mr Gates of NGO perspectives of development finance.

The global health community is putting its lobbying efforts into getting support to tackle non-communicable diseases in developing countries for 2011. This marks a change from the 'traditional' health area of HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB normally at the heart of global health campaigning.

One the eve of the 4th UN Conference of the Least Developed Countries, Wateraid and End Water Poverty have released their manifesto for the conference calling for financing of all credible national water and sanitation plans.

Transparency International has released its 2011 Global Corruption Report which focuses on climate change. The report sets out the practical guidelines to ensure corruption does not undermine efforts to tackle climate change.

On the eve of World Malaria Day, the Japanese government agreed its first draft of its extra budget which would cut its entire 2011 contribution to the Global Fund for HIV/AIDS, Malaria and TB. Japanese NGOs are urging the government to reconsider its decision.

The French and international NGOs have agreed and announced their mobilisation plans for the G8 and G20 Summits in 2011. They have sent out a call for to the global communityto put forward alternative models to the current financial system pushed by G8 and G20 powers.