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By: Africa LGBTIQ – aid conditionality & LGBT Rights

Africa LGBTIQ – aid conditionality & LGBT Rights — Thu, 06 Mar 2014 13:56:28 +0000

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By: More guns, no butter in Africa: US strategy, dictatorships, and buying off the human rights groups |

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 09:25:22 +0000

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By: Robert Oostvogels

Robert Oostvogels — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 13:35:41 +0000

What I missed in your draft is the perspective of the taxpayer in the donor country. Whenever I had to take decisions about ‘aid’ I always kept in my mind: would the average -in my case, Dutch- taxpayer approve, see this support as money well spent? Decisions about where money flows are often a result of lobbying by interest groups such as the military industry, the agro-business etc. They have little to do with the interests of the receiver, despite all the political correctness that is displayed in the many statements that are quoted in the draft. But if you ask the average Dutch person: would you approve of aid going to a Uganda government after parliament in that country approves of this homophobic legislation that is in the pipeline, the answer would be NO.

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SPW – Sexuality Policy Watch » Blog Archive » WE RECOMMEND — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 20:28:58 +0000

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By: Cheikh Traore

Cheikh Traore — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 12:33:10 +0000

I enjoyed the analysis. it is no surprise if many of us are confided in this aid conditionality debate: It is a complex and ever changing field! The Millennium Development Goals deserve a mention in the article, they underpin donor decisions and aid policies on extreme poverty eradication, and crucially they do have human rights considerations built in them, notably on gender equality.Perhaps, as LGBT advocates, more of us should should get educated about the complexity of development aid politics, its perils and achievements. we also need to grasp the changing World, the recent involvement of BRICS and Gulf states. We will probably have a lot more clarity where there is relative transparency and accountability: multilateral and bilateral aid. The World has changed since the Paris Declaration, notably with the greater ability of migrants to send financial remittances to their “home” countries. Monies remitted by migrants now far outweigh the volume of bilateral aid (by 2/10 in most Western countries or Gulf states!). Increasingly we will need to define aid with more recognition of the contribution of immigrants. we will also need to realise that sizeable amounts of aid has been used to address conditions which otherwise nay not have attracted interest due to stigma: such as HIV/AIDS, This raises another question: the right to health as a basic human right?