JANUARY 2010 A Royal mission – fighting cancer in Jordan and the Middle East MIFTAH: the key of hope for Palestinians v IEF holds energy symposium in South Africa Vienna High-Level Symposium reviews aid effectiveness Venezuela’s Simón Bolivar Youth Orchestra visits Austria Save the fish: food for thought? OFID Quarterly is published four times a year by the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID). OFID is the development finance agency established in January 1976 by the Member States of OPEC (the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) to promote South-South cooperation by extending development assistance to other, non-OPEC developing countries. OFID Quarterly is available free-of-charge. If you wish to be included on the distribution list, please send your full mailing details to the address below. Back issues of the magazine can be found on our website in PDF format. OFID Quarterly welcomes articles and photos on development-related topics, but cannot guarantee publication. Manuscripts, together with a brief biographical note on the author, may be submitted to the Editor for consideration. PUBLISHERS THE OPEC FUND FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (OFID) Parkring 8, P.O. Box 995, A-1010 Vienna, Austria Tel: (+43-1) 515 64-0; Fax: (+43-1) 513 92-38 Email:
[email protected] www.ofid.org EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Mauro Hoyer Romero EDITORIAL COORDINATOR Audrey Haylins CONTRIBUTORS Reem Aljarbou, Sam Ifeagwu, Anna Ilaria-Mayrhofer, Verena Ringler, Fatimah Zwanikken, Project Syndicate (Tarun Khanna) PHOTOGRAPHS Rana Wintersteiner (Unless