DOHA, 1 December 2008: Throughout 2008 Inter Press Service, IPS, has been reporting on financing for development, partnering with the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) to highlight the gender dimensions.
In Doha, Qatar as governments gather for the Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the Monterrey Consensus, a special IPS Terra Viva magazine features news stories, analyses, ground reports, high-level interviews and columns focusing on the possibility of a more equitable and sustainable development.
A special IPS news site, Towards Doha: Better Financing for Development, showcases the independent news reporting, columns and special publications that IPS has produced on the road to Doha in 2008. Financing for development encompasses aid, trade, debt relief, international and national finance, domestic budgeting and global governance.
Aid is one important part of the Financing for Development agenda, and this was given special attention at the Accra aid effectiveness assessment in September, 2008. IPS Africa produced three special editions of TerraViva in Ghana. For the civil society parallel forum IPS partnered with GCAP, Transparency International, Interaction,CIVICUS and Better Aid. At the high level forum IPS partnered with African Woman and Child Feature Service and UNIFEM to produce two further editions of TerraViva.
