Aid has increased significantly.

More aid on its own will not be enough.

Increasing aid to Africa

The most direct way to increase ODA volumes is to allocate increasing shares of donor countries' national budgets to aid.

We applaud the greater pledges for increased aid.

First, official development assistance (ODA) should be greatly increased.

Moreover, humanitarian relief must be increased and must be delivered unimpeded.

Efforts to increase amounts of aid must be accompanied by measures to increase its quality.

Furthermore, it is essential to implement the commitments regarding the increase in official development assistance, as well as to quickly deliver that assistance to those who are in need.

Making sure that aid is used better and more effectively is as important as increasing it.

The immediate result was a 5 per cent increase in ODA in 2002 and total ODA further increased to 68.6 billion in 2003.

The number of Sudanese and international aid workers in the region, which has been growing along with the number of people assisted, now stands at 13,500.

Increasing the amount and impact of official development assistance

And depending on who you ask, the surge was supposed to push it up even further.

In addition to the quantity of aid, at issue is its quality as well as the monitoring arrangement.

This year New Zealand has increased its development assistance by 23 per cent.

The European Union has put forward a calendar on increased assistance.

Reinforcements required by the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire

It is clear that more aid is needed, in particular for capacity building.

To make the most effective use of aid, it was imperative both to increase the quantity of aid, so that essential investments could be made in health, education, and economic infrastructure to assure sustained growth, and to improve the quality of aid.

The number and scope of conditions attached to certain types of assistance should be made less onerous on recipient countries.

On the other hand, the tragedy is expected to increase international assistance.

We also welcome recent efforts and initiatives to enhance the quality of aid and to increase its impact.

In Khartoum, despite serious humanitarian needs for internally displaced persons and the poor, there has been no increase in aid disbursements and therefore no increase in the provision of humanitarian assistance during the reporting period.

By and large, it did not work.

Against this backdrop, it is essential that not only the Monterrey pledges of increased official development assistance are realized, but also that increased official development assistance means a real increase in financial resources in support of the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

In addition, this battalion will strengthen the Mission's surge capacity by acting as a quick reaction force.

This is when the surge happens.

This year, we increased our official development assistance by 23 per cent.

Pointing to the importance of developing MDG based poverty reduction strategies in developing countries, he urged donor countries to increase official development assistance (ODA), particularly to low income countries, and to improve its quality (more harmonized and more predictable, with a higher grant element).

Donor countries have increased their direct bilateral aid and their multilateral aid for HIV AIDS.

Donor countries contributed 4.54 per cent of their total official development assistance (ODA) to population assistance in 2003, up from 3.65 per cent in 2002 (figure II).

At least 50 per cent, therefore, of the increase in the European Union's aid resources will go to Africa in plain terms, that represents a doubling of EU assistance to Africa over the next five years.

The European Union is committed to doubling its development assistance by 2010.

Donor countries have a responsibility to increase their assistance to developing nations.

As requests for electoral assistance have grown, existing resources have been unreasonably stretched.

The CTC's Directory of Assistance (www.un.org sc ctc) is frequently updated to include new relevant information on available assistance.

We are increasing our contribution to ISAF, and at NATO's request we are now in the process of providing F 16 air support.

The Government has also increased assistance to refugees and refugees have access to social benefits and assistance for the purchase of housing and land.

The 25 States of the Union have agreed on a proposal to increase their assistance budget, which will be 20 billion larger by 2010.

In addition, it is normally expected that ODA should provide new cash resources that make it possible for recipient countries to increase development spending.

5. Authorizes in this context an expansion of the UNAMIR force level up to 5,500 troops

I, therefore, welcome our commitment to increase our official development assistance.

Bilateral assistance stood at 3.3 billion in 2003, up from 2.3 billion in 2002.

A substantial increase in official development assistance to developing countries has not been achieved.