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The Impact of Development Awareness Raising

The latest Voices & Views on capacity4dev.eu looks at some of the perspectives from the recent DEAR meeting in Brussels. Featuring video interviews with Valentina Auricchio, Joanne Malone and Liz Allum. http://capacity4dev.ec.europa.eu/article/impact-development-awareness-ra...

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Capacity4dev Team posted Information 12 January 2015
Group: EU DEAR Programme Group
Partners share their plans and expectations for the EYD2015

Today the European Year for Development (EYD) is officially launching in Riga, Latvia to coincide with the Presidency of the Council of the European Union. To mark the launch, we caught up with Member States and partners to see what they have planned for the coming year and what they hope to...

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Capacity4dev Team posted Information 9 January 2015
Group: European Year for Development 2015 Stakeholders
Private Sector and the European Year for Development

“Even though a lot of people have been taken out of extreme poverty, inequality is increasing. And I think private sector needs to play a role here. I think private sector in the way of job creation, but also in a way of making sure that we think about how we pay taxes, that we pay taxes, and so on...

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Capacity4dev Team posted Information 9 January 2015
Group: European Year for Development 2015 Stakeholders
VIDEO - The EU Continues to Deliver in the Fight against Ebola: Prevention and Preparedness are key - Carla Montesi, EuropeAid

The current situation The situation remains serious, despite the impressive mobilisation of international support. The Ebola epidemic is affecting the most vulnerable countries. It has a direct impact on their livelihoods and economies. And many economic sectors are affected including not just...

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Capacity4dev Team posted Information 23 December 2014
Group: Health Crisis Prevention, Preparedness and Response
Addressing the Ebola Crisis in Sierra Leone: How the Delegation is responding

“I think that the Ebola virus is something that has touched a nerve in the collective consciousness about everybody’s own deep seated individual fears about sickness and about infection and that has led to the reactions that we’ve seen,” said Tom Ashwanden , the Head of Governance &...

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Capacity4dev Team posted Information 18 December 2014
Group: Global Health in EC development cooperation
VIDEO - The Essential Ingredients for Improving our Ability to Respond to a Health Crisis - Stefania Salmaso, ISS

Health experts gathered in Brussels on 2 December 2014 to discuss Health Crisis Prevention, Preparedness and Response . One of the key messages coming out of the conference was very clear: the international community was not well enough prepared to deal with an epidemic on the scale of the recent...

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Capacity4dev Team posted Information 18 December 2014
Group: Health Crisis Prevention, Preparedness and Response
VIDEO - More investments are needed for health crises prevention, preparedness and response - Isabelle Nuttall, WHO

In the last ten years more than 15 Ebola outbreaks have been detected and successfully managed, but “in terms of investment in the research nothing had happened, in terms of better treatment, in terms of vaccination, no investment had been done,” explained Dr Isabelle Nuttall, Director of Global...

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Capacity4dev Team posted Information 18 December 2014
Group: Health Crisis Prevention, Preparedness and Response
End of Year Message

Just over one year after I took up duty in DG DEVCO, it is time to share some reflections and wishes with you before the Christmas holidays. And this is even more important in the wake of the appointment of the new Commission, and in particular our Commissioner for International Cooperation and...

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Capacity4dev Team posted Information 17 December 2014
Group: Public Group on Development Policy
Focus on Ebola

The recent Ebola virus outbreak has taken the world by surprise. Infecting over 17000 people, and resulting in a reported 6070 deaths to date*, this outbreak has raised several questions. Were we prepared enough to deal with such an outbreak? Was the international community too slow to respond? How...

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Capacity4dev Team posted Information 10 December 2014
Group: Global Health in EC development cooperation
EU-UNDP Response in Syria - Restoration & Stabilisation of Livelihoods

The current conflict in Syria has caused mass destruction, displaced many people (7.6 million in October 2014) and taken several lives. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) recently published a video show showing how the European Union (EU) and UNDP are working together to build...

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Capacity4dev Team posted Information 2 December 2014
Group: Public Group on Fragility and Crisis Situations