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Fighting Cancer in Jordan and the Middle East 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 otherwise credited) PRODUCTION Susanne Dillinger DISTRIBUTION Hala Elsayed DESIGN etage.cc/krystian.bieniek PRINTED IN AUSTRIA Stiepan Druck GmbH COMMENT January 2010 Strengthening aid effectiveness 2 COVER STORY 4 A Royal mission – fighting cancer in Jordan and the Middle East 4 OUTREACH MIFTAH: The key to hope for Palestinian Society 10 Society’s forgotten victims 14 AIDS vaccine breakthrough 18 OFID partners with Standard Chartered PLC 22 OFID Diary 24 Meetings attended by OFID 25 Loan signature photo gallery 26 129th Governing Board photo gallery 28 DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION HIV/AIDS: protecting the vulnerable 30 IEF holds energy poverty symposium in South Africa 34 Asian footsteps in Africa Chinese Premier pledges US$10 billion in aid to Africa 36 30 Migration as an engine of human development 39 Vienna High-Level Symposium reviews aid accountability and transparency 41 Arab countries debate climate change 43 MEMBER STATES FOCUS Kuwait hosts Arab Thought Foundation Annual Conference 46 Venezuela’s Simón Bolivar Youth Orchestra visits Austria 48 53 PARTNERSHIPS Cover photo: OPEC Secretariat moves to new location 51 HRH Princess Ghida Talal and HRH Princess Dina Mired of Jordan’s King Hussein Cancer Foundation during the Amman International Marathon, where 3,000 people participated in the name SPOTLIGHT of the Foundation. PHOTO: KHCF Save the fish: food for thought? 53 COMMENT Strengthening aid effectiveness he availability of financing for on Harmonization, Paris, France, 2005, development may be one of the and the Third High Level Forum on Aid Ef- T less talked about casualties of fectiveness, Accra, Ghana, 2008, are good the global financial crisis, but its examples of this initiative, as are the wounds are nonetheless deep. By stran- outcomes of these meetings: the 2005 gling aid and other capital flows, the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and recession has exposed the inherent the 2008 Accra Agenda for Action. fragility of the global development These events created a powerful mo- framework and thrown into sharp re- mentum to change the way aid donors lief the imperative of getting the most and recipients work on the ground and out of every single cent – in other spawned the establishment of a multi- words the issue of aid effectiveness. plicity of mechanisms for aid effective- Aid effectiveness is a term coined to ness, including the International Aid describe the degree to which aid objec- Transparency Initiative, the Open Forum tives are achieved and target problems on Civil Society Organization Aid Effective- resolved. It is more about quality than ness, and the Better Aid Platform. quantity, although the latter is also very Such momentum, however, has important when it comes to measuring slowed in the face of the global financial actual results. crisis and its repercussions. Some donor In recent years, important strides countries have cut back on the amount have been made towards improving the of funding made available, while others quality of aid. Representatives of donor have tied the provision of funds to the and recipient countries and multilateral acquisition of their own goods and serv- and bilateral development institutions – ices. These circumstances have served to including OFID – have stood united in highlight the relevance and importance their determination to build a more in- of the concessional and untied support clusive and accountable aid cooperation provided by OFID for more than three framework. The Second High Level Forum decades. 2 OFID QUARTERLY JANUARY 2010 COMMENT The quantity of OFID aid is “OFID financing a central tenet of its opera- not related to the economic for development is tional philosophy. performance of OFID Mem- However, we must be ber Countries, or to the aver- consistent and mindful that aid effective- age spot price of the OPEC predictable – two ness depends not just on reference basket of selected of the prerequisites the donors but on the recip- crudes, or to the value of ients too. So results-oriented Member Country petroleum for enhanced aid development cooperation exports. OFID financing for transparency, must include open, respect- development is consistent accountability ful dialogue with develop- and predictable – two of the ing country partners – what and effectiveness.” prerequisites for enhanced OFID calls a “contract among aid transparency, accounta- equals.” We must support bility and effectiveness. their choices and actively encourage Recognizing the need for continued them to take control of their own improvement of the quality of South- future. South and Triangular cooperation, OFID Yet, as the target date of 2015 for has also been an active participant in reaching the eight Millennium Devel- the Development Cooperation Forum opment Goals (MDGs) draws nearer, the and in the Coordination Group of the signs are that the pace of progress has Arab Funds, the Islamic Development remained too slow. If the MDGs are a Bank and OFID. OFID has also played measure of aid effectiveness, then as a an active role in the dialogue between global community we are failing on the Coordination Group and the Devel- many counts. Much more must be done opment Assistance Committee of the to accelerate implementation of the ob- Organization for Economic Coopera- jectives set out in the Paris Declaration tion and Development. and the Accra Agenda for Action. OFID looks forward to continuing Meanwhile, in regaining the mo- constructive dialogue – including with mentum, let us not forget what remains new partners – on issues related to aid ef- when we strip away the rhetoric – bil- fectiveness and reform of the interna- lions of men, women and children, who tional financial and aid architecture. For are depending on us to help build a bet- OFID, maximizing the impact of its ter future. What greater inspiration do development assistance has always been we need? ࡯ OFID QUARTERLY JANUARY 2010 3 COVER STORY The King Hussein Cancer Center Established by Royal Decree in 1997, KHCC has evolved into the leading cancer hospital in the Middle East, with state-of-the-art facilities providing life-saving treatment to over 4,000 patients every year, many of them children. 4 PHOTO: KHCF HRH Princess Ghida Talal (left) and HRH Princess Dina Mired (right) are tireless advocates for excellence in cancer care in Jordan. A Royal mission – fighting cancer in Jordan and the Middle East by Audrey Haylins The name is not all that is royal about Jordan’s King Hussein Cancer Foundation (KHCF). Leading the dedicated team of medics, support staff and fundraisers are two royal princesses – Princess Ghida Talal, Chairperson of the Board of Trustees, and Princess Dina Mired, Director- General. Unlike some royal patrons, however, the princesses are more than just figureheads, as the OFID Quarterly discovered during a recent interview with Their Highnesses. OFID QUARTERLY JANUARY 2010 5 COVER STORY ogether, they make a formidable because we’ve actually been there. It is “We were the first cancer hospital out- T duo. Utterly committed to their this that gives our passion an extra edge,” side the United States to receive this ex- cause, the Princesses Ghida and Dina explains Princess Ghida. ceptional distinction from JCAHO, so are powerful protagonists in Jordan’s And it is the princesses’ passion that it’s something we are very proud of,” fight against cancer – the country’s sec- has helped establish KHCF’s medical says Princess Ghida. The Center has also ond biggest killer after heart disease. arm, the King Hussein Cancer Center, as recently been awarded membership of Behind their steely determination lies the leading hospital of its kind in the the prestigious College of American a special understanding borne out of Middle East. Pathologists. their own first-hand experiences. As a Established by Royal Decree in 1997, In order to augment KHCC’s pool of young bride, Princess Ghida helped her the Center has evolved into a comprehen- expertise and experience, the princesses husband successfully battle Non- sive, state-of-the-art facility that is the and their team have labored hard to forge Hodgkins Lymphoma, while Princess equal of anything anywhere in the world. affiliations with some of the top cancer Dina has nursed her young son through Testament to its standing is its accredita- centers in the world, among them the leukemia. tion as a “disease-specific” healthcare USA National Cancer Institute, St. Jude “We have both lived cancer in all its provider by the internationally-recog- Children’s Research Hospital, USA; and facets – from the terror to the taboo.
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