Daily Mail: Kehitysyhteistyövaroja käytelty epämääräisiin projekteihin

[Scallypunk]

Kehitysyhteistyövaroja on laitettu yleishyödyllisiin projekteihin, kuten:
- £3.6?million to the Trades Union Congress.
- More than £1?million to teach nursery and primary school children in the UK about the 'dangers of unequal global development'.
- £600,000 to an ethnic minority think-tank which has not published a report for almost three years.
- £300,000 to the National Union of Teachers to 'enable them to become global agents of change'

UK:n julkistaloutta uhkaa ainakin neljänneksen leikkaukset. Kysymyksiä on aiheuttanut kehitysyhteistyörahojen säilyminen minkäänlaisilta leikkauksilta.
Lue ja ihmettele.


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MoS probe reveals foreign aid millions diverted to UK projects: £3.6m for the TUC, £1m for lessons in 'unequal global development'By Glen Owen
Last updated at 8:52 AM on 27th June 2010
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David Cameron is facing growing criticism of his move to shelter the international aid budget from cuts after it was revealed that it diverts millions of pounds to trade unions and controversial projects in the UK.
International Development is one of just two Whitehall departments – the other is Health – ring-fenced from the swingeing 25??per cent spending cuts announced by Chancellor George Osborne last week.
But critics are increasingly questioning whether its £6?billion-a-year budget should be spared – while Departments such as the Home Office could be forced to sack 35,000 police officers in the £113?billion deficit reduction package.
David Cameron: facing growing criticism to shelter the international aid budget from cuts after it was revealed that it diverts millions of pounds to trade unions
Research has found that, since 2003, the Department for International Development (DFID) has spent millions on projects including:
£3.6?million to the Trades Union Congress.
More than £1?million to teach nursery and primary school children in the UK about the 'dangers of unequal global development'.
£600,000 to an ethnic minority think-tank which has not published a report for almost three years.
£300,000 to the National Union of Teachers to 'enable them to become global agents of change'.
Last night, the Conservatives said DFID's immunity from the cuts would remain – but a 'full value-for-money review' of its spending was promised.
The Prime Minister's Election pledge to protect the health and overseas aid budgets was designed to neutralise Labour claims that the Tories would hit frontline services.
But it means the burden of Mr Osborne's move to cut Whitehall by a quarter over four years will fall on Transport and the Home Office – which face cuts of up to 33?per cent as a result.
The policy came despite a pre-Election audit of the DFID, which identified £800?million of annual spending with dubious merit – including £35?million in aid to corrupt Uganda and an astonishing £825?million to nuclear-armed India over the three years from 2009.
The EU also receives £1?billion a year from the department to distribute to developing countries.
Now, research by the International Policy Network (IPN) think-tank has identified where much of DFID's money goes in this country.
Since 2003, £3.6?million has been given to the TUC, including a £2.4?million handout in 2009 for 'advocacy and lobbying work' and 'to build support for development in the United Kingdom'.
Of this, £756,000 went on a 'Strategic Framework Partnership Agreement' – to fund training for the TUC to learn how to apply for further DFID grants.
The department also found £600,000 to set up a UK think-tank called Connections For Development, which aims to 'provide a forum for black and ethnic minority organisations on issues relating to international development'.
However, an independent audit of the group in 2007 concluded that there was 'a lack of clarity over the purpose of the organisation'. It also noted that nearly 40??per cent of members had either no email address listed or one that was out of service.
The audit added that members showed a 'lack of demonstrable experience in international development'.
Although the group still has a live website, it doesn't appear to have published a report since 2007.
Another organisation, Global Education Derby, has received almost £1?million from DFID since 2004-05, with the purpose of teaching primary school children that 'unequal development fosters poverty and conflict'.
A further grant, of £190,000 over three years, went to the Scottish Development Education Centre to perform a similar role for nursery and pre-school children, on the basis that 'attitudes begin to develop at a very young age'.
Other grants include – in the 2009-10 funding round – £183,375 to the Brighton Peace And Environment Centre for 'pictures showing how individuals in different parts of the world are intrinsically linked through the challenge of climate change'.
Caroline Boin, who co-authored the research for the IPN think-tank, said: 'It is a travesty to add billions to the foreign aid budget in the middle of a national crisis.

'The Government wants to sack 35,000 police officers while it pours money into a Department notorious for nonsensical projects. Millions of pounds of our "foreign aid" never even leaves the UK.'
Last night, International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell said he would be conducting a full audit of DFID's spending.
'Taxpayers want aid cash to be spent saving lives in the world's poorest countries, not frittered away on questionable projects in the UK,' he said.
'My first act at DFID was to end funding to several UK-based projects which the previous Government had signed off – including a Brazilian-style dance troupe in Hackney – and redirect the money to poor people in developing countries.'
He pledged to set up an Independent Aid Watchdog to provide tough external scrutiny of DFID spending.
The row came as Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles said he wanted to ban councils from publishing their own weekly freesheets, which have been damaging local newspapers.
He said axing 'the weekly town hall Pravdas' would save councils millions and ensure an independent local Press was able to scrutinise councils.
'The previous Government's weakening of the rules on town hall publicity not only wasted taxpayers' money and added to the wave of junk mail, but has undermined a free Press,' he said.


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Sillä aikaa Ruotsin maalla...

http://www.thelocal.se/27618/20100705/

Liberals slam Left Party for dictatorship aid

Liberal Party MP  and foreign affairs spokesperson Fredrik Malm has accused the Left Party of funneling millions of kronor in development aid to leftist authoritarian and totalitarian regimes around the world from 2005 to 2009.

n an editorial in the Dagens Nyheter daily on Monday, Malm cited the Partido Comunista Colombiano, a non-reformed Marxist-Leninist party  in Colombia, as well as Laban ng Masa, an alliance of revolutionary groups on the far left in the Philippines, as recipients of financing through the Left's international forum (Vänsterns internationella forum - VIF) and called on Lars Ohly  to explain why the party supports dictatorships.

"Voters have the right to be informed about what happens to Swedish aid if the Left Party sits in a red-green government after the election," wrote Malm. "What a party does in opposition is of course what it is also prepared to do in a majority with much greater resources and political influence."
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[Scallypunk]

Epäilemättä Ruotsistakin löytyy alan huippuosaamista.
Suosittelen tutustumaan IPN:n, eli International Policy Networkin kotisivuihin: http://www.policynetwork.net/ He siis tekivät tämän auditin kehity...puuhastelurahojen käytöstä.

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Kehitysapu, avustusjärjestöt, NGO:t...


Varmasti noissakin häärii myös vilpittömin tarkoitusperin liikkeellä olevia ihmisiä, mutta...

[sa ole rasisti]

" vilpittömin tarkoitusperin liikkeellä olevia ihmisiä"

Eli ns. hyödyllisiä idiootteja. Eiköhän leijonanosa kehitysavusta mene suoraan leopardihattujen palatsien kustannuksiin ja sveitsiläisille pankkitileille. Näin on aina ollut ja näin on aina oleva. Ääneen tätä ei tietenkään saa sanoa, muuten ei Tavjalle eläkepäiville YK:lta puuhasteltavaa irtoa.