Articles for tag: Funding challenges, International aid and development

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Global aid funding cuts place 14 million children at heightened risk of severe malnutrition

Reductions in donor funding are poised to severely undermine decades of progress in child and maternal health, potentially disrupting nutrition support for at least 14 million children and increasing their risk of severe malnutrition and death, according to initial analyses released by UNICEF. The warning comes as world leaders convene in Paris for the Nutrition ...

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Kiwi aid agencies urge Government to increase climate finance & foreign aid spending

Aotearoa’s international development sector has issued an open letter to three ministries imploring them to increase spending on climate finance and foreign aid in the upcoming budget.   The letter, from the Council for International Development (CID), the peak body for New Zealand NGOs and charities in the international development and humanitarian space is addressed to Foreign ...

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New CEO Heather Campbell to lead Save the Children New Zealand

Longstanding international development leader and former Asia Deputy Regional Director for Save the Children International, Heather Campbell, has been appointed as the new CEO of Save the Children New Zealand. Ms Campbell, who will take up the role from Monday 17 March, brings more than two decades of experience in international development to the role, ...