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The Amazon Fund (FA) was created on August 1, 2008 by Decree No. 6527. Guidelines and criteria for fund application were defined at the first two meetings of the Fund’s Guidance Committee (COFA) held last October and November, respectively. A third meeting was held on May 29 to present the technical cooperation agreement jointly signed by the Ministry of the Environment (MMA), the Brazilian Forest Service (SFB) and the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES), and also to discuss the participation of private companies as beneficiaries of the Fund.
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Why should donor agencies care about budget transparency? And what can they do to increase it in the countries they support? This brief describes how a lack of transparency in aid-recipient countries reduces the potential effectiveness of that aid to reduce poverty and lead to sustainable economic growth because of leakages, corruption, and mismanagement.
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The objective of this text is to raise awareness about the importance of budgetaryanalysis, from the human rights perspective, emphasizing gender and race dimensions.To what extent does the budget proposed by the federal government prioritize theallocation of public spending to policies that fulfill the rights enshrined in our FederalConstitution? To what degree do men, women, Blacks and whites have their rights ensured?
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This technical note analyzes the 2008 Budgetary Law. It discusses the federalgovernment undue inclusion of expenditures not actually disbursed in the final value ofthe budgetary execution. It also demonstrates how the government executes two budgetssimultaneously: the current year budget and the previous years’ undisbursedcommitments.
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Developing countries expressed their disappointment over little progress at the climate talks in Bonn which ended on 8 April and stressed that there were wide gaps in understanding the positions of developing countries. They also emphasised the serious implementation deficit by developed countries of their commitments under the UNFCCC.
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We also live in times of setbacks in the field of Human Rights, here understood by the political, civil, economic, social, cultural, environmental and sexual rights that, with hard sacrifices, have been conquered since the 18th century. Times of resistance!
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