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People
Blueprint for Post-2015
In a briefing to the 193-Member
Assembly in December last year, the
UN chief presented his synthesis
report, alongside the President of
Ban Ki-moon, the General Assembly, H.E. Mr. Sam
Kutesa. The report is to set the stage
for agreement on the new framework at a September 2015
summit.
“[We] have an historic opportunity and duty to act, boldly,
vigorously and expeditiously, to turn reality into a life of dignity for
all, leaving no one behind,” said the UN Secretary-General,
Ban Ki-moon, on 4 December as he presented his
synthesis report The Road to Dignity by 2030: Ending Poverty,
Transforming All Lives and Protecting the Planet. The SecretaryGeneral also welcomed the outcome produced by the
Open Working Group, saying its 17 proposed sustainable
development goals and 169 associated targets clearly
expressed an agenda aiming at ending poverty, achieving
shared prosperity, protecting the planet and leaving no one
behind. Water is proposed as the sixth goal of seventeen.
Kaberuka receives Lifetime Achievement Award
from Forbes Africa
The President of the
African Development
Bank Group, Donald
Kaberuka, received the
Donald Kaberuka,
Forbes Africa Lifetime
Achievement Award on Thursday, December 4 during
the magazine’s 4th Annual Person of the Year Awards
ceremony in Nairobi, Kenya.
In a statement delivered on his behalf by Gabriel Negatu,
Director of the AfDB’s East Africa Regional Resource
Centre, Kaberuka expressed his appreciation for the
award, which he dedicated to the 2,000 Bank staff, whom
he said, “it is my privilege to lead.
“Anything I have achieved in my ten year stint at the helm
of this great Bank has been achieved with their unfailing
support, skill and dedication.”
Kaberuka saluted the leaders present at the evening’s
awards, and called on them and others to carry the torch:
“As I look back on my time in the service of Africa at the
African Development Bank. I know we are winning, but
we have not won yet.
“Leadership will take us to the goal, and I salute the many
of you tonight who are leaders. Your followers constitute
the youngest and most dynamic population in the world.
Africa has shown that it is a place of immense opportunity
for its young people.”
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Who will be the next USAID administrator?
Who will lead U.S.
foreign aid and
humanitarian relief
programs?
When Rajiv Shah steps
down as administrator
Rajiv Shah
of the U.S. Agency for
International Development early February 2015, someone
will take over leadership of the U.S. government’s $20
billion foreign assistance portfolio. But who?
In the short term, we know the answer. Current Deputy
Administrator Alfonso Lenhardt will step in as acting
administrator when Shah vacates his position, and it
is possible Lenhardt will ride out the remaining two
years of the Obama administration in that role. It took
almost a year to nominate and confirm Shah, after the
administration vetted and considered other candidates,
including health luminary Paul Farmer, who eventua B