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Global Development Awards Competition 2024
The 2024 edition of the Global Development Awards Competition was launched a short while ago, and we are sending out a last call for applications for the same. The theme for this edition is ‘Sustainable Climate Action for Human-Centered Development’ and the date for submission has been extended to 16th June 2024 (6:00 PM Indian Standard Time). The awards will feature two […]
Blue Sands Foundation
Blue Sands Foundation, a non-profit organisation backed by Russell IPM, commenced its operations in Gambia by drilling a borehole to supply clean water to 100 households in vulnerable communities. As an additional benefit, a portion of the water was directed to the vegetable gardens tended by the women of the community. In a video, they […]
Global Partnering Event DIHAD 2022
Successful development requires inclusive partnerships built upon shared values and a common vision of the future with people and the planet at the centre. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide an ideal framework for those partnerships. Global leaders continually reiterate that we can only realise the SDGs with strong partnerships and cooperation. Hence Sustainable Development […]
The Leading Humanitarian Aid & Development Event
The Dubai International Humanitarian Aid & Development (DIHAD) Event, established and organized in Dubai dated 6-8 April 2004, under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai, provides a platform where assistance providers can interface with relevant actors from the […]
AidEx blog on ‘shameful cuts’
Nicholas Rutherford, Event Director of AidEx and Development2030, has posted a new blog under the heading ‘Shameful cuts to the UK aid budget’. Click here
AidEx 2020 webinar series – Nov. 18-19
A special AidEx 2020 webinar series is to take place on the 18th and 19th November 2020. All sessions will be focused around the theme of ‘Response, recovery and resilience: optimising humanitarian responses and development programmes to manage future global crises’. For full programme details and how to sign up click here
AidEx and Development2030 postponed to 2021
….BUT – 2020 programme goes virtual. AidEx and Development2030, orginally due to be held in Brussels in November, has been postponed until 17-18 November 2021. This is due to the current COVID-19 situation remaining unsettled in Belgium, forcing a 12-month delay to protect the health and safety of potential attendees, exhibitors and speakers. This year’s […]
Global Vision 2020 win again
Global Vision 2020, winners of the Innovation Challenge Award at AidEx19 in Brussels, have won again. Developers of the USee Vision System, Global Vision 2020, have claimed one of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s 2020 Patent for Humanity awards. Global Vision 2020 founder, Kevin White, is featured in the Last Word section of the […]
USAID joins ‘call to action’ on COVID-19
USAID’s Acting Administrator John Barsa signed SWA’s ‘call to action’ at the end of May, a move which the organisation said reinforced the US Government’s ‘long-standing commitment to water security and sanitation as a foreign policy priority’. In an accompanying statement, signed by USAID’s Global Water Coordinator, Jennifer Mack, the organisation said that access to […]
