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Welcome to Development Initiatives

Welcome to the Development Initiatives website. We hope it will provide you with an idea of who we are, what we do and how we like to work.

Right now, we are working with governments, multilateral agencies, research institutes and NGOs to:

• monitor progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the 0.7% target and Gleneagles commitments to make poverty history
• analyse humanitarian aid funding flows and evaluate funding mechanisms
• increase understanding of extreme and chronic poverty and the role of social protection
• track resources for poverty reduction and sustainable development
• encourage policymakers to look beyond 2015 and to adopt a global strategy for the elimination of poverty by 2025.

We've moved!

August 2008 – In order to accommodate our growing aidinfo, Global Humanitarian Assistance (GHA) and consulting teams, we've moved (one whole kilometre!) to a bigger office in Wells, Somerset, UK – and now also have an office in Ethiopia!

We're hoping that improved facilties and parking at the Wells office will allow us to host some of our larger meetings and courses (such as the latest workshops on aid statistics and policy).

Meanwhile, Owen Barder, who has joined us from DFID to lead our aidinfo programme, has set up office in Addis.

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Find the new Wells office.

Monitoring humanitarian assistance

We are working with donor governments, agencies and NGOs to help count, analyse and monitor global flows of humanitarian assistance

globalhumanitarianassistance.org

(our site dedicated to humanitarian assistance)

Tracking resources for poverty reduction

We are working with governments, civil society and people in both industrialised and developing countries to get better information and better aid

aidinfo.org