Friday, 05 April 2013 09:04
The Sherpa
 A host of religious leaders called on the G8 leaders to tackle tax and transparency in an open letter to the Financial Times today. The letter is published on the 1000 day mark for the deadline of the MDGs and lays out concrete policy proposals for thr G8 to take when they meet in Loche Erne in June.
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Thursday, 04 April 2013 21:57
The Sherpa
 The ONE Campaign is calling for a Multilateral War Room to help in the fight to meet the MDGs in its new report which reviews the progress towards meeting the MDGs and recommend a set of actions needed to accelerate progress over the next 1000 days to 2015 deadine.
Thursday, 04 April 2013 20:29
The Sherpa
 The OECD DAC figures were released on Wednesday but the disappointing figures did not register on the main development NGO's radar with only a handful issuing reactions to the cut in aid spending.
Wednesday, 03 April 2013 09:12
The Sherpa
 The UN General Assembly agreed the first global arms treaty on the 2nd April to the relief of the NGO community. It had been a ten year campaign to get this treaty with a number of set backs on the way so the final agreement was celebrated by NGOs.
Monday, 01 April 2013 20:03
The Sherpa
 The Stanley Foundation has pubished a new report by Sophia Murphy examing the role of the G20 on food security. The report reviews the G20's intervention and recommends areas that the group could take help forward this area of development.
Saturday, 30 March 2013 12:20
The Sherpa
 The ONE Campaign has launched a comprehensive review of the state of agriculture investment and support in a new report, Growing Opportunity: Measuring Investment in Africa Agriculture'. The new report replaces the ONE Campaign's annual review of development assistance with a sectoral investigation.
Wednesday, 27 March 2013 08:27
The Sherpa
 The BRICS group of countries met in a wet Durban on the 25th & 26th March for the first time on the African continent. The meeting finally agreed to launch the much speculated BRICS development bank, although with few details in terms of the size and contributors of the fund.
 This is deep policy wonkyness but interesting as a new report released by the Center of Concern and the Hienrich Boll Foundation takes aim at a recent academic assessment of the G20's performance on its commitments.
 To mark World Water Day on the 23rd March (the same day as Earth Hour) Wateraid has launched a new report looking at the water, hygiene and santitation scenario in 2030, post-2015.
Thursday, 24 January 2013 13:11
The Sherpa
G8
UK Prime Minister laid out his G8 plans today at the World Economic Forum in Davos in a fascinating speech that connected terrorism, his 'golden thread' of tax, transparency and trade and poverty. He even managed to end this speech with a quote echoing Presideny Mandela's Make Poverty Speech of 2005 by saying we could be the generation to eradicate absolute poverty.
Tuesday, 15 January 2013 08:39
Other
 A new report on the BRICS' development agenda and civil society campaign was released in late 2012. The report was sponsored by Oxfam India as part of their on-going work on the role of the emerging powers in development
Saturday, 01 December 2012 09:30
The Sherpa
Summits -
G20
 Presiden Putin has announced his presidency of the G20 will focus on stimulating growth and create jobs. In a speech laying out the G20 agenda for 2013, the Russian government focused on regulation and transparency - there was little mention of development issues.
 There is alot taking place in the world of advocacy this week. Here is what the Sherpa is watching.
 The UK will hold the 2013 G8 Summit at a golf resort in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland on the 17th & 18th of June, the Prime Minister announced today. The G8 will focus on trade, taxes and transparency.
 Corporate Knights (indeed), a Canadian corporate sustainability magazine, has published a scorecard measuring the environmental and social sustainability of the G20. Coming out on top are Germany and Japan with South Africa, India and Saudi Arabia trailing at the bottom.
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