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...years, you've sent $400 billion in aid to Africa, but if you look back, what is there to show for it?" he asks. "Why should the West spend so much without bothering whether that is making a difference? How does Africa accept that its affairs are run by ngos and other groups from outside? It's really something that needs to be corrected." So Rwanda is trying to build a new model of development. Though foreign assistance makes up around a third of Rwanda's gdp, Kagame refuses to limit himself to talks with aid organizations and foreign governments...
Merck's success in Botswana and similar CSR successes by other companies around the globe raise an interesting question: might businesses be better at aid than traditional NGOs and charities? There's reason to suppose they might be. After all, businesses the size of Merck are capable of marshaling greater medical expertise and more resources than any one NGO, and they are obsessed with results and efficiency...
...donations and counseling. As a passionate sportsman whose love for the game led him to quit his old life as a merchant sailor, he is only interested in results. "Some organizations talk a lot, but they don't do much," he says. "I've worked with a lot of NGOs, looking for support. But they say, 'We don't do that, we only do this.' It doesn't take much to provide something to bring the youth together and teach them about AIDS. It just takes a basketball court. ACHAP understood that. And they built it." Maybe running a drug...
...step onto the world stage, but we are going to rain on your parade,'" Reeves says. "They know more pressure is coming and are afraid." In the case of Darfur, says Tsinghua's Yan, "yes, the pressure worked." But he is quick to add that just because Western NGOs have had one success, they should not assume they will have another. China remains wedded to the belief that outside forces should not be allowed to dictate what a nation thinks is its own business. "China will never change its fundamental policy of nonintervention in internal affairs," says...
Meanwhile, WWF, formerly known as the World Wildlife Fund, has been working with producers, buyers and various NGOs since 2004 to craft voluntary industry standards aimed at minimizing or eliminating environmental damage. "This is a major priority for us," says Jose Villalon, who heads WWF's recently expanded aquaculture team. Standards will yield certifications of sustainability for a range of popular seafoods; the first, covering tilapia, is expected by the end of the year...