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12:59 07/09/2010
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How can we improve aid effectiveness?

Active citizenship and gender equality are key factors to improving aid effectiveness.

VSO will take this message to the Busan Aid Effectiveness Forum in Korea next week. We’ll be joining thousands of other delegates from around the world, including many of our local and international partners.

The Paris Declaration (2005) established… Read more »

12:59 07/09/2010
Girls from the Aparajeyo Centre for Street Children in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Happy International Women’s Day

On International Women’s Day VSO offices and partners around the world will be celebrating the achievements, remembering set-backs and making plans for the continuing struggles.

To support disadvantaged women around the world and UN Women, VSO will be launching a new global advocacy campaign on gender inequality in summer 2011. This… Read more »

12:59 07/09/2010
Gantri Devi and her granddaughter

VSO at the Commission on the Status of Women

In February, VSO sent a small delegation to the United Nations 55th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York, as part of our commitment to increase our work on gender over the next two years.

NGOs from around the world gathered on Monday 21 February for… Read more »

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At the end of the AIDS conference, as a VSO participant I should reflect on how well our profile and our priority issues were addressed during the conference, and what should happen next. It has been an exciting event to be part of, and I know from our staff debrief meeting on Thursday that all of… Read more »