For Africa, two news. Good one: according to opinion polls from December 2009, 83% of Poles agree that the government should deliver development aid and 49% believe that Poland should provide assistance primarily to African countries. Bad one: there is no Polish government among them. This year project aid to Africa was cut almost by half and the overall amount of funds for NGO projects decreased significantly.
NGO project aid to Africa fell from 6.17 million zloty (1.75 million euro) in 2008 to mere 1.26 million zloty (0.31 million euro) in 2010. In result, the funds for NGO projects in Africa available from the Polish MFA in 2010 are only 20% of what was available in 2008. These figures do not include Angola which is one of priority countries of Polish aid and has therefore a separate budget envelope. However, in 2010, Polish MFA did not fund any project of Polish NGOs in Angola.
This is in tune with the overall budget for NGO projects, that decreased by approx. 20% between 2009 and 2010, a second year in a row. This was not even for all partner countries. NGO project aid for Belarus and Ukraine decreased slightly, while budget available for Georgia even increased.
You will find more on the website of Institute of Global Responsibility, which also warns that "the dramatic cut for NGO projects has a major and negative influence on the ability of the Polish government to meet it's commitments in regard to Sub-Saharan Africa and implementation of the Millennium Development Goals".
In my opinion the government can feel safe. Support of the public opinion, though noble, is declarative and theoretical – when comes to hard spending, no one here is going to die for far far away Africa. So the only efficient pressure on the government might come from EU structures. In 2005 Polish government, along with other EU members, promised to increase ODA. In line with this commitment in 2010 Poland should spend on this goal 0.17 % GDP. Last year it was just 0.08 %. One of the worst result in Europe.
something about development cooperation in Czech Republic http://development.thinkaboutit.eu/think3/post/polish_government_sharply_cuts_aid_to_africa
http://development.thinkaboutit.eu/think3/post/central_and_eastern_european_development_cooperation/
Robert, well done on your research.
I have never found a table illustrating the MFA allocations within their Development Cooperation Department!
It is a fact - E0.3mln for the whole of Africa and Middle East vs over 3 million for Ukraine, Belarus and Georgia.
You can clearly see the distinction between our interests and good intentions.
Really good stats! Learning a lot from your post, thx! Dziekuje!;)
Especially in difficult economic times for many Poles, it becomes more and more clear that the existance of so many millions of worthless apes creates a burden for Polish society in a real economic sense.
I wonder what the data would look like if we, working human taxpayers could calculate the total cost to humans of sustaining these worthless apes in our planet.
Think of if that €3 milion had been used to do things useful to polish society, like repair roads, fund scientific research, or pay off a fraction of the national debt.
Instead, this money will sustain future generations of these disgusting low iq parasites and prevent them from dying off.
Just yesterday I heard on the radio about some idiotic program in Ethiopia meant to educate some of the apes there on how to reduce mortality during childbirth. Unfortunately it is never mentioned that with each and every shitskin born, the environment/nature/human society is burdened with additional costs.
Every new apefreakan just means more chaos, destruction, filth, misery, stupidity, ugliness and vice.
Angola IQ69
http://books.google.co.za/books?id=KQ4rLiAbHQQC&pg=PA73&lpg=PA73&dq=angola+iq+wealth&source=bl&ots=IrwVsy45mV&sig=VQlsK1CYbhLNl983y2Xt5WD1Nfs&hl=en&ei=PDaaTJ_WH8P-8Aa0uPli&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CCgQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f;=false
Eastern Europe starts repaying Africa
http://www.africanonlinenews.com/features/25604