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unusual facts about Development aid


Development aid

The apartments were unpopular and only 1,102 out of the 9,992 planned buildings were built (see Ng'ambo).


Congo Pedicle road

Construction of the bridge started in 2007 for completion in 2008, and President Mwanawasa has said that paving the road will go ahead, depending on donor funding.

Educational policies and initiatives of the European Union

A number of these appear to have been set up as a means of development assistance rather than with the development of universities as such, an impression strengthened by the fact that they were managed by the European Commission's development assistance service EuropeAid rather than (like Tempus or Erasmus Mundus programme)by its Education and Culture department.

John Guidetti

After one year with the Impala club, Guidetti joined Mathare United's academy, the MYSA organisation for sports development aid, in the slums of Nairobi.

Leif Frode Onarheim

From 1965 to 1967 he worked at the Indo-Norwegian Project on development aid in Kerala.

McDonnell Douglas KC-10 Extender

In this function, the aircraft have been deployed to Kosovo to evacuate refugees, to the Caribbean and Central America to provide humanitarian aid after the hurricanes Luis, Georges and Mitch and to various countries in Africa and Asia to provide development aid.

Sheri Fink

She has contributed to the public radio news magazine Public Radio International (PRI)’s The World covering a number of topics including the global HIV/AIDS pandemic and international aid in development, conflict and disaster settings.


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Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud

Organized by the government of Turkey in Ankara, the meeting ended with a signed agreement between the new Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and Mohamoud agreeing to allocate fairly to the Somaliland region its portion of the development aid earmarked for Somalia as a whole and to cooperate on security.

Boudewijn Poelmann

Before establishing Novamedia in 1983, he worked with DAF and Oxfam Novib (Dutch organization for international development aid).

Jyrki Otila

Otila worked as assistant office chief of YLE from 1965 to 1970, in the United Nations in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from 1970 to 1973, in YLE in 1974, in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs as a development aid expert in Tanzania from 1975 to 1977, and as a factory chief for the Orion Corporation in Arusha, Tanzania from 1977 to 1980.

Mary Fitzgerald

Mary Anne Fitzgerald (born 1945), British journalist, development aid worker and author

Nia Künzer

She was born in Mochudi, Botswana as Nia Tsholofelo Künzer (her first name being Swahili for "aim" or "intention"), where her parents were on a two year's tour with a development aid organization.

Paul G. Hoffman

Paul Gray Hoffman (26 April 1891 – 8 October 1974, New York City) was an American automobile company executive, statesman and global development aid administrator.