Emmanuel Chaco
KINSHASA, Nov 17 2009 (IPS) – Kinshasa s population needs an estimated 700,000 cubic metres of water per day. The Régie de distribution des eaux (REGIDESO) produces only 425,000 cubic metres vast neighbourhoods like Kitokimosi and Mpasa receive almost none of this water.
Just 22 percent of Congolese have access to safe drinking water. Credit: Julien Harneis/Creatve Commons
The situation in other parts of the country is similar if not wors…
Nora Happel interviews Philippe Douste-Blazy, U.N. Under-Secretary-General in charge of Innovative Financing for Development, chair and founder of UNITAID and former French foreign minister.
Courtesy of Philippe Douste-Blazy
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 9 2015 (IPS) – Implementation of the ambitious post-2015 development agenda which will be adopted in September 2015 at the United Nations depends to a large extent on funding.
Amidst preparations for the upcoming 3rd International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD) to be held from July 13 to 16, 2015 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, discussions centre on “innovative financing mecha…