The Watch Dog that shamed its own founder: HRW an anti Ethiopia and Israeli lobby funded by Saudi Arabia?

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The Watch Dog that shamed its founder with its outrageous and fabricated blackmailing of Africa

Dear Patriotic Global Citizens, friends of African Union and Greater Ethiopia Without Borders!

Re:  It is time to make HRW accountable!

Making the Watchdogs accountable at the International Criminal Court of Justice for blackmailing Africans and Israel is a task for anew generation of Global Patriotic Network.

It is time to put to task those who collaborate with known terrorists and act their PR machine


It is time to make HRW account for its crime against humanity and its blatant blackmailing of a noble people.

The hypocrisy has to stop and we need to demand accountability.

HRW and its crisis, from the pen of its founder*is worth reading and it is attached below.  An organization that has gone amok with prejudice, blackmailing and out right criminal activities against the Ethiopian people and Israelis.

What a shame we can continue to entertain such criminals and do not bring them to ICC (International Criminal Court of Blackmailing), sooner than later.

HRW that shamed its own founder with its criminal blackmailing activities against the people of Africa and Israel need to see their day in court to account for their crime against the noble and courageous people of Ethiopia, Africa and Israel.

It is pay back time and time to account for HRW terrorist activities, blackmailing a people and a nation of more than one billion standing.

Blackmailing the future, security and hope of a people with erroneous treacherous continuous defamation, psyops, propaganda  is the worst terror of them all.  We need patriotic promotion and pre-emption for the truth by challenging the evil hate and terror mongers!

Here is the evidence One, Two. Three and look forward to your perception and perspectives

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Evidence One

Ethiopian gov’t refutes claims of politicized aid

20 October 2010

Addis Ababa, October 20, 2010 (Addis Ababa) - The Ethiopian government rejected the allegations made by Human Rights Watch saying the government politicizes the use of development aid in any shape or form or that it has misused any of the development aid so generously provided by the international community.

According to a statement the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent to ENA on Wednesday, the allegations made by Human Rights Watch simply do not reflect reality.

The statement said in January this year, the Development Assistance Group, a 26 aid agency consortium in Ethiopia, investigated similar allegations.

Its report found that safeguards for donor programs were largely working well, that the programs were achieving results and the monitoring mechanisms were sufficient, the statement said.

Ethiopia is currently achieving considerable success in development. It has reached four of the Millennium Development Goals and is on track for two more.

The government has been and remains entirely committed to transparency in its dealings with the international community and with aid donors on the basis of mutual trust and responsibility, and of accountability and transparency.

The statement said it is impossible to believe from its latest report that these are principles to which Human Rights Watch is prepared to adhere to in any genuine manner.

It is, therefore, hardly surprising that Human Rights Watch should try to threaten the provision of development aid to Ethiopia. Indeed, this would appear to be an attempt by Human Rights Watch gratuitously to blackmail the international community as part of its ongoing vendetta against the government of Ethiopia, the statement said...(Mofa)

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Evidence Two:

HRW Biased Report

Here below is a comment  from one of our reader(Lela Mar) on HRW. What do you know  about HRW and why they continue to defame the Ethiopian government? Share your thoughts and have your say!

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As usual HRW is releasing unsubstantiated and unverified information as “Research Report.” There is a bias in HRW, that is anti-Ethiopia and anti-Israel, mainly dictated by who is funding it. The following quotes from ngo-monitor.org, indicates HRW “analysts” and directors are funded by Saudi Arabia, and the likes, who have their own interest seeing a dismantled and weak Ethiopia, as well as Israel.

“These biases, which are particular to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) division, have intensified at HRW. In May 2009, Whitson went to Saudi Arabia to raise funds, selling the message that HRW’s role is central in countering “pro-Israel pressure groups.”  Whitson also emphasized HRW’s anti-Israel reporting on the Gaza war, which provided the foundation for the one-sided Goldstone report, as the basis for donations from Saudi funders. “

HRW also uses Jawar Mohammed, a well known ONLF(?) PR person as its sources in its report.  In fact, on an interview on Al-Jezera, Leslie Lefkow, who supposed to be the “Horn Of Africa” specialist, refers to Jawar Mohammed, as her “colleague”, indicating there exist a close working relationship between an ONLF(?) PR and HRW. 

So it is no surprise to all of us, even when founder of HRW, Robert Bernstein, published an op-ed article in the New York Times,Rights Watchdog, Lost in the Middle East, which denounced the biases and failures of his own organization. 

Although, Bernstein points the failure of HRW, is specifically about Isreal, his OP-ED clearly points about how HRW focuses on false allegations against Israel, while de-emphasizing daily human rights violations in Iran, Libya, Saudi Arabia and other authoritarian regimes.

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Evidence Three

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Rights Watchdog, Lost in the Mideast

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By ROBERT L. BERNSTEIN

AS the founder of Human Rights Watch, its active chairman for 20 years and now founding chairman emeritus, I must do something that I never anticipated: I must publicly join the group’s critics. Human Rights Watch had as its original mission to pry open closed societies, advocate basic freedoms and support dissenters. But recently it has been issuing reports on the Israeli-Arab conflict that are helping those who wish to turn Israel into a pariah state.

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At Human Rights Watch, we always recognized that open, democratic societies have faults and commit abuses. But we saw that they have the ability to correct them — through vigorous public debate, an adversarial press and many other mechanisms that encourage reform.

That is why we sought to draw a sharp line between the democratic and nondemocratic worlds, in an effort to create clarity in human rights. We wanted to prevent the Soviet Union and its followers from playing a moral equivalence game with the West and to encourage liberalization by drawing attention to dissidents like Andrei Sakharov, Natan Sharansky and those in the Soviet gulag — and the millions in China’s laogai, or labor camps.

When I stepped aside in 1998, Human Rights Watch was active in 70 countries, most of them closed societies. Now the organization, with increasing frequency, casts aside its important distinction between open and closed societies.


Nowhere is this more evident than in its work in the Middle East. The region is populated by authoritarian regimes with appalling human rights records. Yet in recent years Human Rights Watch has written far more condemnations of Israel for violations of international law than of any other country in the region.

Israel, with a population of 7.4 million, is home to at least 80 human rights organizations, a vibrant free press, a democratically elected government, a judiciary that frequently rules against the government, a politically active academia, multiple political parties and, judging by the amount of news coverage, probably more journalists per capita than any other country in the world — many of whom are there expressly to cover the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.


Meanwhile, the Arab and Iranian regimes rule over some 350 million people, and most remain brutal, closed and autocratic, permitting little or no internal dissent. The plight of their citizens who would most benefit from the kind of attention a large and well-financed international human rights organization can provide is being ignored as Human Rights Watch’s Middle East division prepares report after report on Israel.

Human Rights Watch has lost critical perspective on a conflict in which Israel has been repeatedly attacked by Hamas and Hezbollah, organizations that go after Israeli citizens and use their own people as human shields. These groups are supported by the government of Iran, which has openly declared its intention not just to destroy Israel but to murder Jews everywhere. This incitement to genocide is a violation of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

Leaders of Human Rights Watch know that Hamas and Hezbollah chose to wage war from densely populated areas, deliberately transforming neighborhoods into battlefields. They know that more and better arms are flowing into both Gaza and Lebanon and are poised to strike again. And they know that this militancy continues to deprive Palestinians of any chance for the peaceful and productive life they deserve. Yet Israel, the repeated victim of aggression, faces the brunt of Human Rights Watch’s criticism.

The organization is expressly concerned mainly with how wars are fought, not with motivations. To be sure, even victims of aggression are bound by the laws of war and must do their utmost to minimize civilian casualties. Nevertheless, there is a difference between wrongs committed in self-defense and those perpetrated intentionally.


But how does Human Rights Watch know that these laws have been violated? In Gaza and elsewhere where there is no access to the battlefield or to the military and political leaders who make strategic decisions, it is extremely difficult to make definitive judgments about war crimes. Reporting often relies on witnesses whose stories cannot be verified and who may testify for political advantage or because they fear retaliation from their own rulers.

Significantly, Col. Richard Kemp, the former commander of British forces in Afghanistan and an expert on warfare, has said that the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza “did more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat zone than any other army in the history of warfare.”
Only by returning to its founding mission and the spirit of humility that animated it can Human Rights Watch resurrect itself as a moral force in the Middle East and throughout the world. If it fails to do that, its credibility will be seriously undermined and its important role in the world significantly diminished.

*Robert L. Bernstein, the former president and chief executive of Random House, was the chairman of Human Rights Watch from 1978 to 1998.

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NGO Monitor Calls on New HRW Chairman to Revamp Organization

NGO Monitor

October 12, 2010

Research Institution Cites Need for “Moral leadership”

JERUSALEM – As part of continued research and analysis on the claims and advocacy activities of Human Rights Watch (HRW), Jerusalem-based research institution NGO Monitor calls on incoming board chairman James Hoge to take immediate steps to restore the organization’s focus on universal human rights.  To move forward in restoring “HRW’s moral influence,” Hoge must take decisive action regarding biased staff members who exploit human rights rhetoric.

Mr. Hoge has joined an organization whose credibility was torn apart in an op-ed by HRW founder Robert Bernstein in the New York Times, “Rights Watchdog, Lost in the Middle East,” in which he denounced the biases and failures of his own organization. Bernstein highlighted NGO Monitor’s finding of obsessive focus by HRW on false allegations against Israel, while de-emphasizing daily human rights violations in Iran, Libya and other authoritarian regimes. Bernstein noted that instead of using its growing resources to press for human rights under these regimes, his organization has focused on turning “Israel into a pariah state.”  In 2010, reports in The New Republic andSunday Times exposed more of HRW’s failures, and further reduced its moral reputation and influence.

“If Mr. Hoge is going to have a serious impact as head of HRW’s board, he will need to repair its moral reputation,” says Prof. Gerald Steinberg, president of NGO Monitor.  “HRW has the resources and capabilities to be the moral compass for societies throughout the world.  Unfortunately, the organization has been hijacked by senior staff members, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Division. They have replaced universal human rights principles with a narrow ideological bias and an obsession with Israel, while ignoring other conflicts and real human rights abuses throughout the world.”

NGO Monitor has chronicled HRW’s false claims and disproportionate focus on Israel. NGO Monitor’s monograph, Experts or Ideologues: Systematic Analysis of Human Rights Watch, described the consistent anti-Israel agenda within the organization, as shown in detailed analyses of the publications in the MENA division from 2002 to 2009. This report showed that MENA division director Sarah Leah Whitson and her deputy, Joe Stork, as well as other officials, allow their backgrounds in anti-Israel advocacy to distort their human rights and international law work.

These destructive and unethical biases have intensified at HRW in recent years. In May 2009, Whitson went to Saudi Arabia to raise funds, selling the odious message that HRW’s role is central in countering “pro-Israel pressure groups.”  Whitson also emphasized HRW’s anti-Israel reporting on the Gaza war, which provided the foundation for the one-sided Goldstone report, as the basis for donations from Saudi funders. Later that year, HRW’s “senior military analyst” Marc Garlasco was dismissed after it was revealed that he was a collector of Nazi memorabilia. However, a gag order was imposed on Garlasco, and HRW blocked efforts to investigate the credibility of his numerous reports condemning Israel.

“We fully expect Mr. Hoge to initiate a credible and independent examination of the organization’s past reports on Israel, and issue retractions where warranted,” Steinberg continues. “HRW said they would review every single report compiled by Mr. Garlasco after he was dismissed – we are still waiting for that process to begin.  Additionally, Mr Hoge will need to review staffing issues, including the role of top officials, and take actions to end support for the anti-Israel ideology that has permeated the organization.”

Steinberg added that the recent $100 million “challenge grant” from George Soros to HRW presents new challenges for the organization regarding its anti-Israel biases. “Despite the implications of the Soros funding, we hope that Mr. Hoge will take the actions necessary to restore the centrality of universal human rights in HRW’s agenda.”




Evidence No 3:

Letter to James Hoge, Restoring Human Rights Watch's Moral Leadership

Gerald Steinberg

October 12, 2010

NGO Monitor

James F. Hoge, Jr.

Chair of the Board
Human Rights Watch (HRW)
50 Fifth Avenue, 34th floor
New York, NY 10118-3299
October 12, 2010

Re: Restoring Human Rights Watch’s Moral Leadership

Dear Mr. Hoge,

On entering the position of chair of the board of Human Rights Watch (HRW), we note the challenges you face in restoring HRW’s moral integrity in promoting universal human rights.  These challenges were clearly stated by founder Robert Bernstein in hisNew York Times article, in which he condemned the organization for abandoning its moral foundations and helping to turn Israel into “a pariah state.”

In the past decade, NGO Monitor has analyzed HRW’s Middle East agenda in detail, revealing the disproportionate focus on Israel, double standards, and false allegations, in the organization’s research. The blatant ideological bias of HRW’s Middle East staff is of major significance in this area, as also demonstrated in media reports.

HRW’s immoral exploitation of human rights values was underscored in May 2009, when Middle East and North Africa (MENA) division head Sarah Leah Whitson led a fundraising visit to Saudi Arabia. Instead of promoting real human rights values, Whitson pressed the odious message that HRW’s role is central in countering “pro-Israel pressure groups.”  Whitson also emphasized HRW’s anti-Israel activities regarding the Gaza war, which provided the foundation for the Goldstone report, as the basis for donations from Saudi funders. Later that year, HRW’s “senior military analyst” Marc Garlasco was dismissed after it was revealed that he was a collector of Nazi memorabilia. Garlasco, whose military expertise has been widely questioned, was forced to sign a gag order by HRW as part of his severance package.

The failures of the MENA division are also reflected in the disproportionate resources devoted to criticizing Israel at the expense of chronic human rights abuses in Syria, Saudi Arabia, Libya, and other countries, which receive minimal, pro forma attention from HRW. Additionally, the support voiced by HRW officials for boycotts and lawfare cases against Israel further demean and politicize human rights norms.

As Robert Bernstein wrote, HRW needs to act quickly and firmly to restore its moral compass and claim to promote universal human rights values. We urge you to make the necessary changes in order to meet these objectives. 

Sincerely,

Prof. Gerald Steinberg
President, NGO Monitor

Evidence No 4:

Homepage »  Resources  »  NGO Monitor Reports Experts or Ideologues: Systematic Analysis of Human Rights Watch September 08, 2009 NGO Monitor's detailed report examines HRW's activities related to the Arab-Israeli conflict, and particularly on Israel -- including  analysis of key HRW staff members, five case studies of HRW campaigns, and quantitative analysis comparing HRW publications in the Middle East, covering the period from 2002 to 2009. Executive Summary in English [PDF] Executive Summary in Hebrew PDF of the full report Responses to this report Table of Contents (Click links to read excerpts from the monograph) Introduction  a.    Origins b.    Funding c.    Human Rights Watch – an NGO Superpower d.    Political Agendas or Universal Human Rights? Part One: Experts or Ideologues: HRW Staff and Board Members a.    The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Division in Context b.    Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of HRW c.    Sarah Leah Whitson, Director of the MENA d.    Joe Stork, Deputy Director of the MENA e.    Darryl Li f.    Reed Brody g.    Lucy Mair h.    Nadia Barhoum i.    Peter Bouckaert j.    Marc Garlasco k.    Board of Directors l.    HRW Links with Palestinian NGOs Part Two: The Research Façade: Case Studies of Systemic Anti-Israel Bias a.    Gaza Beach Incident 2006 b.    2006 Lebanon War c.     “Reuters Cameraman” Incident – April 2008 d.    The Gaza War, December 2008-January 2009 e.    The Durban Strategy Part Three: Analysis of HRW’s Middle East Agenda 2004-2008  a.    Double Standards: War Crimes, Collective Punishment, Human Shields, Abducted Soldiers b.    Terrorism / Asymmetric Warfare c.    Disproportionate Focus on Israel d.    Demonization of Israel Using the Rhetoric of International Law e.    Distortion of International Humanitarian Law Part Four: RecommendationsAppendixes References Further analysis (Updated November 28, 2009) Ideologues or Experts? HRW Fights the Gaza War Sarah Leah Whitson Joe Stork Marc Garlasco Nadia Barhoum Statements during the Conflict "Rain of Fire" (white phosphorous) "Precisely Wrong" (drone allegations) "Rockets from Gaza" "White Flag Deaths" HRW at the UN HRW and Its Critics Saudi Arabia Funding Controversy Responses to NGO Monitor's report, Experts or Ideologues General Criticism On "White Flags" Report On Joe Stork On Saudi Arabia NGO Monitor Publications Criticism of HRW Defensive Responses from HRW Responses to NGO Monitor's report, Experts or Ideologues On The Reading List, Andrew Sullivan, The Atlantic Monthly, October 23, 2009 MIDEAST: NGO Reports on Gaza War Belie Israeli Claims, Helena Cobban, Inter Press Service, September 11, 2009 Offensive against Human Rights Watch, Le Monde, France, September 11, 2009 [Google translation] Former HRW analyst said to be avid collector of Nazi souvenirs, Ha’aretz, September 10, 2009 J'lem think tank: HRW lacks credibility, Josiah Ryan, Jerusalem Post, September 9, 2009 NGO Monitor: Gaza war probe tainted by anti-Israel ideology, Cnaan Liphshiz, Haaretz, September 9, 2009 Media war rages over Gaza conflict, Seth Freedman, Guardian, September 9, 2009 Gerald M. Steinberg (Editor): Experts or Ideologues: Systematic Analysis of Human Rights Watch, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, September 9, 2009 Can of Worms, Ben-Dror Yemini, Ma’ariv, September 9, 2009 [original Hebrew] Is Human Rights Watch's Marc Garlasco A Nazi-Obsessed Collector?, David Bernstein, Volokh Conspiracy, September 8, 2009  'Better than' is not always good enough, Iain Levine, Jerusalem Post, September 8, 2009   Ideologues or Experts? Sarah Leah Whitson, Director of MENA Whitson, Kampeas shootin’ the Horse Manure, Richard Landes, Augean Stables, August 4, 2009 More on Human Rights Watch´s Sarah Leah Whitson, The Volokh Conspiracy, August 4, 2009 Sarah Leah Whitson of HRW answers my questions, Ron Kampeas, JTA, August 3, 2009 Human Rights Watch Pleads Innocent. It´s Not., CAMERA, July 28, 2009 Israel´s settlements are on shaky ground, Sarah Leah Whitson, LA Times, June 28, 2009 HRW´s Sarah Leah Whitson On Shaky Ground, CAMERA, June 29, 2009 Talking To: Sarah Leah Whitson from Human Rights Watch, Now Lebanon, May 14, 2009 Joe Stork, Deputy Director of MENA Founder and Board Member of HRW Blast HRW's Anti-Israel Bias, Michael Goldfarb, Weekly Standard, August 26, 2009 Ma´ariv vs. Joe Stork, David Bernstein, The Volokh Conspiracy, August 23, 2009 Joe Stork Responds, Noah Pollak, Commentary, August 22, 2009 Author of report against Israel supported Munich massacre, Ben-Dror Yemini, Maariv, August 22, 2009 [originalHebrew] Crime against humanity, Ben-Dror Yemini, Maariv, August 21, 2009 [original Hebrew] Credibility of Human Rights Watch on Israel crashes, LA Middle Eastern Policy Examiner, August 18, 2009 Joe Stork of Human Rights Watch, David Bernstein, The Volokh Conspiracy, August 17, 2009 Who Is Human Rights Watch’s Joe Stork?, Noah Pollack, Commentary Magazine, August 16, 2009 Joe Stork, Senior Human Rights Watch Staffer, Supported Violence against Jews and Israel's Destruction, Alex Safian, CAMERA, February 19, 2009 Marc Garlasco, Senior Military Analyst, Emergencies Nazi Scandal engulfs Human Rights Watch, Jonathan Foreman, Sunday Times (UK), March 28, 2010 Garlasco’s Friends at Esquire Do Him No Favors, NGO Monitor blog, October 14, 2009 Why Is This Good Man Getting Hung Out to Dry?, John H. Richardson, Esquire, October 13, 2009 This Month in Hitler News, Amanda Chatel, Jewcy, October 2, 2009 HRW's lame evasion, Carl in Jerusalem, American Thinker, September 19, 2009 Not-so-secret motives, Ottawa Citizen, September 16, 2009 The dark knight: Marc Garlasco’s story (Hebrew), Amit Cohen, Maariv, September 16, 2009 Rights Analyst Suspended Over Nazi-Era Collection, Corey Flintoff, NPR, September 16, 2009 HRW suspends Garlasco, Gene, Harry’s Place, September 15, 2009 Garlasco, suspended with full pay, Helena Cobban, Just World News, September 15, 2009 HRW’s Garlasco: “VERY nice Hitler signature selection”; “a visit from Hitler!”; “My Christmas wish is for peace in the Nazi collecting field”, UN Watch, September 14, 2009 HRW analyst suspended over Nazi items, E.B. Solomont & Herb Keinon, Jerusalem Post, September 16 Garlasco's Hobby, Andrew Sullivan, The Atlantic, September 15, 2009 Rights Group Suspends Analyst Over Nazi Collection, New York Times, September 15, 2009 Human rights group suspended anti-Israel investigator (Hebrew), Maariv, September 15, 2009 HRW's Garlasco Suspended, David Bernstein, Volokh Conspiracy, September 14, 2009 Rights Group Assailed for Analyst’s Nazi Collection, New York Times, September 14, 2009 Bloggers accuse Human Rights Watch of online 'sock puppetry', Anthony Bowe, The Washington Times, September 14, 2009 Garlasco does his ‘splainin’, Ron Kampeas, JTA, September 14, 2009 ‘Deception, racism and hypocrisy’, Ben-Dror Yemini, Maariv, September 12, 2009 [Hebrew] Unfair attack on Marc Garlasco, Carroll Bogert, Guardian, UK, September 12, 2009 Protecting Civilians: Military Expert Marc Garlasco, HRW, September 11, 2009 Responding to Accusations, Marc Garlasco, Huffington Post, September 11, 2009 Garlasco, part 2, Helena Cobban, ‘Just World News’ with Helena Cobban, September 11, 2009 Human Rights Watch's Cobban Not Happy With Garlasco, CAMERA, September 11, 2009 Offensive against Human Rights Watch, Le Monde, France, September 11, 2009 [Google translation] Human Rights Watch and Israel: Questions to Answer, Daniel Levy, Huffington Post, September 11, 2009 HRW and Sockpuppets, Lucy Lips, Harry’s Place, September 11, 2009 Does Top Human Rights Watch Official Have a Nazi Problem?, MJ Rosenberg, TPMCafe, September 11, 2009 Human Rights Watch – it is “absurd” to question motives of Nazi medals collector, CST, UK, September 11, 2009 The Expressive Function of Flak 88, David Schraub, The Debate Link, September 11, 2009 Marc Garlasco's little "hobby", Helena Cobban, ‘Just World News’ with Helena Cobban, September 10, 2009 Human Rights Watch investigator accused of collecting Nazi memorabilia, Guardian, UK, September 10, 2009 HRW Official Collects Nazi Memorabilia, Marc Tracy, Tablet, September 10, 2009 The Garlasco-Wehrmacht thing gets creepy, Ron Kampeas, JTA, September 10, 2009 Marc Garlasco and SS Chic, Noah Pollak, Commentary Magazine, September 10, 2009 HRW sends out the sockpuppets (UPDATE), Elder of Zion, September 10, 2009 Former HRW analyst said to be avid collector of Nazi souvenirs, Ha’aretz, September 10, 2009 'HRW expert collects Nazi memorabilia', Herb Keinon, Jerusalem Post, September 10, 2009 Human Rights Watch official response, HRW Press Office, September 9, 2009 HRW's Garlasco, taking it easy, The Elder of Ziyon, September 9, 2009 Human Rights Watch Responds, David Bernstein, The Volokh Conspiracy, September 9, 2009 Can of Worms, Ben-Dror Yemini, Ma’ariv, September 9, 2009 [original Hebrew] The Dark Side of the Anti-Israel Expert, Amit Cohen, Ma’ariv, September 9, 2009 [original Hebrew] Heil HRW, Michael Goldfarb, Weekly Standard, September 8, 2009 The Latest Human Rights Watch Bombshell, Noah Pollak, Commentary Magazine, September 8, 2009 Human Rights Watch's Nazi Paraphernalia Enthusiast, Mark Hemingway, National Review Online, September 8, 2009 Is Human Rights Watch's Marc Garlasco A Nazi-Obsessed Collector?, David Bernstein, Volokh Conspiracy, September 8, 2009  HRW “Military Analyst” Garlasco’s Nazi Souvenir Fetish Reinforces Lack of Credibility, NGO Monitor Press Release, September 8, 2009 Marc Garlasco - Is HRW's Anti-Israel Investigator A Nazi-Obsessed Collector?, mererhetoric.com, September 8, 2009 Nadia Barhoum, Associate, MENA HRW Hires Another pro-Palestinian Activist, NGO Monitor Reports, October 29, 2008 HRW Fights the Gaza War Statements during the Conflict The NGO front in the Gaza war: Human Rights Watch, NGO Monitor Reports, January 11, 2009 The Operation in Gaza: Factual and Legal Aspects, Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, July 29, 2009 Human Rights As A Weapon, Gerald M. Steinberg, Forbes, January 28, 2009 Israel/Gaza: International Investigation Essential, January 27, 2009 "The Incendiary IDF" by Kenneth Roth, January 22, 2009 Israel: Stop Shelling Crowded Gaza City, January 16, 2009 Israel: End Gaza’s Humanitarian Crisis at Once, January 13, 2009 Israel: Stop Unlawful Use of White Phosphorus in Gaza, January 10, 2009 Israel: Investigate Former Judge’s Killing in Gaza, January 9, 2009 Israel and Egypt: Allow Humanitarian Access to Gaza, January 8, 2009 Gaza: Israeli Attack on School Needs Full UN Investigation, January 7, 2009 Israel: Allow Media and Rights Monitors Access to Gaza, January 5, 2009 Israel: Gaza Ground Offensive Raises Laws of War Concerns, January 4, 2009 Israel/Gaza: Civilians Must Not Be Targets, December 30, 2009 Israel: Artillery Poses Risk to Gaza Civilians, December 30, 2009 "Rain of Fire" (white phosphorous) HRW’s “Rain of Fire”: Neither Thorough Nor Impartial, NGO Monitor Report, April 02, 2009 HRW´s Gaza Campaign: Advocacy not Accuracy, NGO Monitor Press Release, March 25, 2009 Human Rights Watch: White (phosphorous) lies, Gerald M. Steinberg, Jerusalem Post, January 17, 2009 HRW, anti-Israel Campaigns, and White Phosphorous: Condemn First, Correct (Maybe) Later, NGO Monitor Report, January 14, 2009 "Precisely Wrong" (drone allegations) HRW's pattern of bias in its "Precisely Wrong" report, Elder of Zion blog, September 7, 2009 Absolutely Wrong: Analysis of HRW report, “Precisely Wrong: Gaza Civilians Killed by Israeli Drone-Launched Missiles,” 30 June 2009, NGO Monitor Report, August 6, 2009 NGO Monitor: HRW Claims on IDF Drones “Entirely Wrong”, NGO Monitor Press Release, August 6, 2009 Human Rights Watch accuses Israel over Gaza drones, Dan Williams, Reuters, June 30, 2009 NGO Monitor: Drones Latest Weapon in HRW Campaign Against Israel, NGO Monitor Press Release, June 30, 2009 HRW’s Garlasco’s latest article: inaccurate and biased, NGO Monitor Blog, March 25, 2009 "Rockets from Gaza" HRW Finds Hamas War Crimes — 6 months late, NGO Monitor Blog, August 12, 2009 NGO Monitor: 6 Questions on HRW’s Gaza Rockets Report, NGO Monitor Press Release, August 5, 2009 Rights Group: Hamas May Have Committed War Crimes, AP, August 6, 2009   "White Flag Deaths" Israel: Gaza ‘White Flag' Deaths Inquiry a Step Forward, HRW, September 10, 2009 Pathological politics: HRW’s “white flags” report, NGO Monitor Report, August 18, 2009 HRW’s ‘White Flags’ Report Surrenders Morality, NGO Monitor Press Release, August 13, 2009 NGO Monitor: Will HRW’s ‘White Flags’ Report Raise Red Flags?, NGO Monitor Press Release, August 12, 2009 Human Rights Watch’s New Blood Libel, Noah Pollack, Commentary Magazine, August 13, 2009 Human Rights Watch Earns Their Saudi Pay, Publishes Another Thinly-Sourced Report Demonizing Israel, Omri Ceren, Mere Rhetoric, August 13, 2009 Human Rights Complex Take 13476: HRW Does Hatchet Job on IDF and (silently) exculpates Hamas, Richard Landes, Augean Stables, August 13, 2009 White flags and prejudice: Latest anti-Israeli screed from Human Rights Watch lapped up by BBC, Robin Shepherd, August 13, 2009 HRW at the UN UN: Secretary-General Should Evaluate Gaza Inquiries, HRW, November 24, 2009 UN: Endorse Goldstone Report, HRW, Nov 3, 2009 Middle East Human Rights Groups Call on the General Assembly to Adopt the Goldstone Report, HRW, November 3, 2009 UN: Endorse Goldstone Report, HRW, Nov 3, 2009 Middle East Human Rights Groups Call on the General Assembly to Adopt the Goldstone Report, HRW, November 3, 2009 General Assembly: Support Goldstone Recommendations on Gaza, HRW, November 2, 2009 Any chance for justice for victims of the Gaza war?, Joe Stork, HRW, September 11, 2009 MIDEAST: NGO Reports on Gaza War Belie Israeli Claims, Helena Cobban, Inter Press Service, September 11, 2009 Right of Reply: Don´t smear the messenger, Kenneth Roth, Jerusalem Post, August 26, 2009 HRW Plays Prominent Role at UN Mini-Durban Conference, NGO Monitor Reports, June 30, 2009 Obama Mid-East Speech Supports Rights, Democracy, HRW, June 4, 2009 Egypt/US: Obama Should Press Mubarak on Rights, HRW, June 2, 2009 US: Ask Israel to Cooperate with Goldstone Inquiry, HRW, May 17, 2009 UN: Support Goldstone Investigation into Gaza War Violations, HRW, May 6, 2009 Israel/Gaza: Cooperate With Goldstone Investigation, HRW, April 14, 2009 HRW and Its Critics Minority Report: Human Rights Watch fights a civil war over Israel, Ben Birnbaum, The New Republic, April 27, 2010 Nazi Scandal engulfs Human Rights Watch, Jonathan Foreman, Sunday Times (UK), March 28, 2010 Watchdog puts no bite on despots, Gerald Steinberg and Dan Kosky, Washington Times, November 15, 2009 Who are the 50 most influential Jews of 2009?, Jane Eisner, The Forward, November 14, 2009 Israel 'personally attacking human rights group' after Gaza war criticism, Chris McGreal, Guardian, November 13, 2009 Distorted claims, Robert Bernstein, Guardian, November 13, 2009 The hijacking of human rights, Leonard Stern, Ottawa Citizen, November 13, 2009 Group unfairly focuses on Israel, Bernard D. Katz, Toronto Star, November 8, 2009 Human Rights Watch needs to shake up its staff, David Bernstein, San Francisco Examiner, November 5, 2009 Human Rights Watch’s Non-Agenda: Iran’s Deadly Arms for Hezbollah, NGO Monitor blog, November 5, 2009 Watchdog's reports on Israel are grossly biased, Gerald Steinberg, Ottawa Citizen, November 4, 2009 Human Rights Watch Chalks New Allegations Against Congo, Rwanda Troops, Congo News Agency, November 3, 2009 LA Times bashes the critics, Carl in Jerusalem, Israel Matzav blog, November 2, 2009 What Kind of People Affiliate with Human Rights Watch’s Middle East Division?, David Bernstein, Volokh Conspiracy, November 2, 2009 Human Rights Watch founder speaks to Maariv, Carl in Jerusalem, Israel Matzav blog, October 30, 2009 Call for NGO review, NGO Monitor international advisory board, Guardian, October 29, 2009 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH (HRW) UNRAVELLING: HELENA COBBAN’S IMMORALITY, NGO Monitor blog, October 29, 2009 Human Rights Watch Debates Its Mission With a Founding Critic, Gal Beckerman, The Forward, October 28, 2009 HRW and Its “Finite Resources” or Where is Mauritania? And Why Isn’t HRW Reporting on Slavery There?, NGO Monitor blog, October 26, 2009 The rot at Human Rights Watch, Tom Gross, National Post, October 20, 2009 Human Rights Watch: The Assault on Israel Continues, NGO Monitor blog, October 11, 2009 Wiesel, Dershowitz: Human Rights Watch reform needed, Staff, Ynet, September 29, 2009 Robert Bernstein's rebuttal to HRW's response, Robert L. Bernstein, NGO Monitor correspondence, October 24, 2009 Sullivan and Sources, Michael C. Moynihan, Reason Magazine, October 23, 2009 Andrew Sullivan on Human Rights Watch–Ignorance is Bliss, David Bernstein, Volokh Conspiracy, October 23, 2009 The Assault On Human Rights Watch, Ctd, Andrew Sullivan, The Atlantic Monthly, October 23, 2009 Human Rights Watch’s Bias, David Peyton, Enterprise Institute blog, October 23, 2009 Rights group denies Israel bias, BBC, October 22, 2009 Steven Edwards: The two faces of Human Rights watch, National Post, October 22, 2009 “We Fundamentally Disagree With Mr Bernstein’s Views”, Mark Gardner, CST blog, October 22, 2009 US lawmaker to rights groups: 'Don't drink the Kool-Aid', AFP, October 22, 2009 Gerald Steinberg Of NGO-Monitor Responds To Andrew Sullivan, Daled Amos, October 21, 2009 HRW dismisses allegations of bias against Israel, The Jurist, October 21, 2009 Robert Bernstein, founder of Human Rights Watch, accuses it of anti-Israel bias, James Bone, Times Online October 21, 2009 Human Rights Watch founder says group biased against Israel, YNet, October 21, 2009  Robert Bernstein's Courage, Editorial, New York Sun, October 21, 2009 My Thoughts on the (Robert) Bernstein Editorial, Kevin Jon Heller, Opinio Juris, October 21, 2009 The Human Rights Watch bias against Israel, Meryl Yourish, Yourish.com, October 21, 2009 The Moral Authority of Accusers: 1. The Fall of Human Rights Watch 2. The J Street Circle Jerk, Marty Peretz, The New Republic, October 21, 2009 HRW’s Founder denounces the organization’s obsession with Israel, Richard Landes, Augean Stables, October 20, 2009 How 'human rights' have turned into inhuman wrongs, Melanie Phillips, The Spectator, October 20, 2009 How Do You Know When it's a Bad Day at Human Rights Watch?, Jeffery Goldberg, The Atlantic Monthly, October 20, 2009 What ails Human Rights Watch?, Anne Herzberg, Jerusalem Post, October 20, 2009 HRW founder slams criticism of Israel, E.B. Solomont, Jerusalem Post, October 20, 2009 Human Rights Watch Discredited Even By Its Founder, CAMERA, October 20, 2009 Bernstein on HRW, Part 341, Kevin Jon Heller, Opinio Juris, October 20, 2009 Crossfire: A Rights Group and Israel [Letters to editor], New York Times, October 20, 2009 Rights Watchdog, Lost in the Mideast, Robert Bernstein, New York Times, October 19, 2009 Human Rights Watch Follies, Jeffery Goldberg, The Atlantic Monthly, September 15, 2009 Goldstone Report Endorses Unreliable Witnesses, CAMERA, September 16, 2009 Is Human Rights Watch out to nail Israel?: ‘Researchers’ build their ‘facts’ on bias, Gerald Steinberg, JWeekly, September 10, 2009 Can of Worms, Ben-Dror Yemini, Ma’ariv, September 9, 2009 [original Hebrew] Human Rights Watch official response to Marc Garlasco-Nazi memorabilia revelations, HRW Press Office, September 9, 2009 'Better than' is not always good enough, Iain Levine, Jerusalem Post, September 8, 2009 HRW Bias, Redux, CAMERA, September 7, 2009 Who are Israel’s accusers?, Gerald Steinberg, JTA, September 3, 2009 Human Rights Watch plays no favorites in probes, Fred Abrahams, JTA, September 3, 2009 HRW, UN biased against Israel, Nelson Marans, The Baltimore Sun, September 2, 2009 Allegations about Human Rights Watch are false, Iain Levine-HRW program director, Baltimore Sun, August 31, 2009 Right of Reply: Isolating Israel through the language of human rights, Gerald Steinberg, Jerusalem Post, August 30, 2009 Israel obsession leads HRW astray, Gerald Steinberg & Dan Kosky, Baltimore Sun, August 30, 2009 HRW's Kenneth Roth misstates facts & law, Hillel Neuer, Jerusalem Post, August 30, 2009 Ramadan in Israel, Rachel Abrams, The Weekly Standard, August 28, 2009 Rosner's Domain: Human Rights Watch's obvious bias, Shmuel Rosner, Jerusalem Post Blog, August 27, 2009 Broken Watch, Allison Hoffman, Tablet, August 26, 2009 Human Rights Watch earns its pay, Omri Ceren, Jerusalem Post, August 24, 2009 Facts, fiction and fury in the battle of human rights groups vs. Israel, Ron Kampeas, JTA, August 20, 2009 HRW Cover-up Watch: “we often cite the vehement attacks on us by reflexive Israel supporters …”, NGO Monitor Blog, August 14, 2009 Losing its halo, Gerald M. Steinberg, National Post, July 29, 2009 International Law Observer: Human Rights Watch Under Fire, NGO Monitor Blog, July 27, 2009 NGO Monitor: HRW’s Flawed “Research” Reports Used to Seek Saudi Funding, NGO Monitor Press Release, July 16, 2009 NGO Monitor: HRW Statement on Gilad Shalit Better Late than Never, NGO Monitor Press Release, June 25, 2009 NGO Monitor to Amnesty, HRW and B’tselem: End Silence on Gilad Shalit, NGO Monitor Press Release, March 15, 2009 Why SHOULD Israel let HRW into Gaza?, NGO Monitor Blog, February 22, 2009 Chivalrous defenders of human rights, Yisrael Harel, Haaretz, August 21, 2009 Watching Human Rights Watch Implode, Michael Goldfarb, The Weekly Standard, August 17, 2009 Hamas lethally attacks mosque -- media and NGOs yawn, Leo Rennert, The American Thinker, August 16, 2009 Slaughter in Palestinian Mosque, Ethel C. Fenig, The American Thinker, August 16, 2009  Saudi Arabia Funding Controversy NGO Monitor publications Analyzing Human Rights Watch’s Defensive Response to Robert Bernstein, NGO Monitor, November 04, 2009 Human Rights Watch: Selling Goldstone’s Indictment, NGO Monitor, October 15, 2009 HRW’s Credibility Gap: 14 Versions of the Abed Rabbo “White Flags” Incident, NGO Monitor, September 11, 2009 Expert or Ideologues?: HRW’s Defense of Marc Garlasco’s Nazi Fetish, NGO Monitor, September 10, 2009 Ideological dead-enders defend HRW, Gerald M. Steinberg, Jerusalem Post, August 03, 2009 York U and HRW: naming and shaming, Gerald Steinberg, Canadian Jewish News, July 30, 2009 HRW Reports Target Israel, while Saudi Abuses Get Brief Emails, NGO Monitor Blog, July 23rd, 2009 From Gulag Liberators to Saudi Retainers, Gerald Steinberg, National Review Online, July 21, 2009 HRW by the Numbers: Obsessive and disproportionate attack against Israel, NGO Monitor Blog, July 18th, 2009 HRW Personnel Reflect Built-in Bias, NGO Monitor Blog, July 16th, 2009 Israel - main course for hungry Saudis at HRW dinner in Riyadh, NGO Monitor Blog, July 16th, 2009 HRW raises funds in Saudi Arabia by demonizing Israel, NGO Monitor Digest, June 16, 2009 Criticism of HRW Iain Levine and HRW, In Deep and Still Digging, Breath of the Beast, November 16, 2009 Cry "conspiracy" and let slip the dogs of human rights, Soccer Dad, November 16, 2009 Human Rights Watch Update, David Bernstein, Volokh Conspiracy, November 15, 2009 NGO’s take criticism: “I really hesitate to use words like conspiracy…”, Richard Landes, Augean Stables, November 15, 2009 I'm part of the anti-NGO conspiracy!, Elder of Zion, November 15, 2009 Israel criticizes Human Rights Watch for its fundraising from Saudi regime, Tom Gross, National Review Online, August 17, 2009 HRW Sez: Don´t Teach Terrorists Tolerance, Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic Monthly, August 10, 2009 Yes, but Israel Isn´t Targeting Civilians, Robert M. Richter, Wall Street Journal, August 9, 2009 Dictatorships and Double Standards, Noah Pollak, Commentary Magazine, August 5, 2009 More on Human Rights Watch´s Sarah Leah Whitson, David Bernstein, The Volokh Conspiracy, August 4, 2009 (all of Bernstein’s posts on this topic) Double Standards and Human Rights Watch, Noah Pollak, Wall Street Journal, July 30, 2009 Watching Human Rights Watch, John Entine, Enterprise Institute blog, July 24, 2009 Human Rights Watch and Its Saudi Donors, Marc Perelman, The Forward, July 22, 2009 More on Daniel Levy and Sarah Leah Whitson, Ron Kampeas, JTA, July 21, 2009 Who Will Watch the Watchers?, David Hazony, Commentary Magazine, July 19, 2009 Human Rights Watch Under Fire, David McGrogan, International Law Observer, July 17, 2009 Diplomacy: Israel vs. Human Rights Watch, Herb Keinon, Jerusalem Post, July 16, 2009 Gov´t strikes back against ´biased´ human rights NGOs, Herb Keinon, Jerusalem Post, July 15, 2009 Fundraising Corruption at Human Rights Watch, Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic Monthly, July 15, 2009 Human Rights Watch Goes to Saudi Arabia, UPDATE, David Bernstein, The Volokh Conspiracy, July 14, 2009 Human Rights Watch Goes to Saudi Arabia, David Bernstein, The Volokh Conspiracy, June 16, 2009 (article in Wall Street Journal) Human Rights Watch bias against Israel-The Saudi Factor, deaniac20, Daily Kos, July 14, 2009 Defensive Responses from HRW The Goldstone Report & Int'l Law - Part 1: Sarah Whitson, Human Rights Watch, UCLA Burkle Center for International Law, November 16, 2009 Moving Beyond the Goldstone Report, Joe Stork, Al Sijjil, November 9, 2009 Three Decades Defending Human Rights, HRW, November 7, 2009 On Israel, Congress Tolerates Abuse, Fred Abrahams, Huffington Post, November 4, 2009 Why Are the United States and Israel at the Top of Human Rights Hit Lists?, James Ron and Howard Ramos, Foreign Policy, November 3, 2009 Human Rights Watch Should Not Be Criticized for Doing Its Job, Aryeh Neier, Huffington Post, November 2, 2009 Statistics tell the real story of rights watchdogs and Israel, James Ron and Howard Ramos, Ottawa Citizen, October 31, 2009 Bashing Human Rights Watch, Scott MacLeod, LA Times, October 30, 2009 Credible approach on human rights, NGO Monitor international advisory board, Guardian, October 30, 3009 Human Rights Watch: We apply same standards to Israel, Hamas, Ken Roth, Haaretz, October 27, 2009 (Hebrew) Why We Report on 'Open' Societies, HRW, October 20, 2009 Crossfire: A Rights Group and Israel [Letters to editor], New York Times, October 20, 2009 On the Goldstone report, Singapore, free trade, aircraft air, BRICs, Ken Roth, Economist, October 1, 2009 Visit to Saudi Arabia and False Allegations of Human Rights Watch ´Bias´, Human Rights Watch, August 6, 2009 Our Coverage of Abuses in the Middle East is Balanced, Sarah Leah Whitson, Wall Street Journal, August 5, 2009 Sarah Leah Whitson of HRW answers my questions, Ron Kampeas, JTA, August 3, 2009 Human Rights Watch responds, Jasmine Herlt, National Post, July 31, 2009 HRW explains (and the hole gets deeper), JTA, July 31, 2009 Another Bernstein Post Attacking Human Rights Watch, Kevin Jon Heller, Opino Juris, July 26, 2009 Anatomy of a smear campaign: Human Rights Watch under attack, Emily Dische-Becker, Menassat, July 22, 2009 The "Swiftboating" of Human Rights Watch, Daniel Levy, Huffington Post, July 20, 2009 David Bernstein’s (Ongoing) Caricature of Human Rights Watch, Kevin Jon Heller, Opinio Juris, June 16, 2009 Print    Send to a friend Related articles - 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DAG Statement - Human Rights Watch (HRW) report: Development without Freedom – How Aid Underwrites Repression in Ethiopia Thursday, 21 October 2010 14:50  21 October 2010 The objective of development partners in Ethiopia is to provide assistance that supports effective development and poverty reduction and that reaches its intended beneficiaries.  Respect for human rights is central to our work and to sustainable development. And some members of the DAG include human rights issues regularly in their dialogue with Government. The aid provided by members of the DAG in Ethiopia is transforming the lives of millions of poor people through basic services such as healthcare, education and water, and long-term food security.  Our programmes are directly helping Ethiopia to reach the Millennium Development Goals. We take allegations of misuse of development assistance very seriously. That is why, even before the earlier HRW report, One Hundred Ways of Putting Pressure , the DAG commissioned an independent Aid Management and Utilisation Study in Ethiopia to examine the vulnerability of the programmes we support to possible misappropriation. We do not concur with the conclusions of the recent HRW report regarding widespread, systematic abuse of development aid in Ethiopia. Our study did not generate any evidence of systematic or widespread distortion. We, nonetheless, recognize that the programmes we support are not immune to the potential for aid misuse and have therefore included safeguard measures to address these risks. These measures include a range of rigorous checks such as regular financial audits, independent evaluations, independently-commissioned surveys and field monitoring visits to make sure our aid achieves the intended development results and its benefits reach those who need them. The DAG Aid Management and Utilization Study concluded that there are generally good accountability mechanisms and safeguards in place that provide checks on possible distortions. The study recommended, however, that safeguards could be further strengthened to include a greater focus on, for example, transparency and independent monitoring.  Donors in Ethiopia are working jointly to strengthen programme-specific systems, in line with the study recommendations. And we will take forward a second stage of the DAG study to review further the effectiveness of accountability measures and safeguards on the ground and to cover other important donor-financed programmes. We believe that implementation of such measures will further reduce the potential for the type of misuses with which the HRW report was concerned. List of DAG members African Development Bank (AfDB) Austrian Embassy Development Cooperation Belgium Embassy CIDA Denmark Embassy DFID European Commission Finland Embassy French Embassy German Embassy - German Development Cooperation IMF Indian Embassy Irish Aid Italian Cooperation Japan Embassy JICA Netherlands Embassy Norwegian Embassy SIDA Spain Embassy Turkish International Cooperation Agency UNDP USAID World Bank   Last Updated on Thursday, 21 October 2010 15:21   Consultative Meeting on the Government's Five Year Plan Wednesday, 29 September 2010 16:49 UN Conference Center, Addis Ababa - The Government of Ethiopia held a two-day consultative meeting (29-30 September 2010) with DAG members and other development partners on its draft five-year Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP). The GTP will cover the period 2010/11-2014/15  and replaces the government's five-year Plan for Accelerated and Sustained Development to End Poverty (PASDEP) that was launched in 2005. The consultative meeting was officially opened by H.E. Minister Sufian Ahmed from the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (unofficial transcript). Opening statements were also delivered by the DAG Co-Chair Mr. Howard Taylor and by Mr. Eugene Owusu on behalf of the UN Country Team (UNCT). Breakout sessions held on the first day focused on: Financing, Growth and Economic Development; Social Sector Development; Capacity Building and Good Governance; and Opportunities, Challenges and Partnerships to deliver the GTP. (summary of key issues)  Acknowledging the ambitious nature of the GTP, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi noted that should there be a financing gap, priority would be given to reaching the MDGs. He also stressed that not only was the GTP more ambitious than the PASDEP, but that it would require more continuous engagement over than years as the plan is implemented. (Right to Left: Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and Minister Sufian Ahmed on their way to the GTP conference)  Download:          DAG Statement_GTP Consultation_29 September 2010 (107.66 kB)  UNCT statement_GTP consultation_29 September 2010 (142.13 kB)  Summary feedback from Working Group on on Financing, Growth and Economic Development (57 kB)  Summary feedback from working group on Social Sector Development (137.6 kB)  Summary of feedback from working group on Capacity Building and Good Governance (21.12 kB)  Summary feedback _working group on Opportunities, Challenges and Partnerships to deliver the GTP (61.74 kB) Last Updated on Monday, 04 October 2010 13:54   World Humanitarian Day Honors Generations of Humanitarian Workers Thursday, 19 August 2010 09:19 The Second annual commemoration of the World Humanitarian Day was officially celebrated in Africa Hall in the presence of guests from the government, humanitarian organisations, the African Union and the UN. The commemoration follows a decision passed by the UN General Assembly in 2008 to mark the World Humanitarian Day on 19 August in order to "Contribute to increasing public awareness about humanitarian work and the importance of international cooperation, and to commemorate all humanitarian personnel who have worked to promote humanitarian causes and more importantly, remember those who have lost their lives in the course of duty." Participants observe a minute of silence for humanitarian workers who have lost their lives in the course of duty. (Front row - left to right: UN Humanitarian Coordinator Mr. Eugene Owusu, World Bank Country Director Mr. Kenichi Ohashi, Head of Development Cooperation SIDA Mr. Abdi Foum and Country Director for USAID Mr. Tom Staal)  Speeches:  Speech by Eugene Owusu_UN Humanitarian Coordinator_Ethiopia_19 August 2010 (97.34 kB)  Speech by Minister Mitiku Kassa of Ministry of Agri and Rural Dev._19 August 2010 (85.08 kB)  Speech by Fasika Kebede_SG Ethiopian Red Cross_19 August 2010 (293.94 kB)  Speech by Vincent Lelei_Head UNOCHA_19 August 2010 (169.84 kB) Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 September 2010 08:03

Aid Management and Utilisation in Ethiopia: A study in response to allegations of distortion in donor-supported development programmes Development and aid in Ethiopia Ethiopia has made impressive development progress in recent years. Since 2000, Ethiopia has recorded the second fastest improvement in human development in the world (UNDP Human Development Report). Economic growth has accelerated on a sustained basis from around 2003, despite the global economic crisis. Significant progress is being made towards the Millennium Development Goals, with Ethiopia on track to meet Goal 1 (eradicate extreme poverty and hunger), Goal 2 (achieve universal primary education), Goal 6 (combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases) and Goal 8 (develop a global partnership for development). Good progress is also being made towards Goal 4 (reduce child mortality) and Goal 7 (ensure environmental sustainability). External aid has played a significant role in helping to deliver this development progress and growth, saving lives and improving livelihoods. These achievements are an important measure by which donors assess the overall effectiveness of their support to Ethiopia. Allegations of distortion in donor-supported development programmes In January 2010, in response to allegations that some donor-supported programmes in Ethiopia were being used for political gain – with aid allocated according to political affiliation, rather than solely need – the Development Assistance Group (DAG) commissioned a study to assess the rigour of the programme systems and safeguards that are designed to ensure that aid is spent effectively. The main allegations, reported by the Ethiopian opposition, international NGOs and the media, were that targeting of beneficiaries and recruitment of public service employees within a number of donor-supported programmes were being influenced by considerations of political affiliation; in short, that aid allocations were subject to political distortion. The allegations referred to programmes including the Productive Safety Nets programme (PSNP), the Protection of Basic Services programme (PBS), the humanitarian Relief programme, and the combined Enhanced Outreach Strategy-Targeted Supplementary Feeding programme (EOS-TSF). Development Partners provide approximately $1.5 bn per year through these programmes, delivering essential resources in support of Ethiopia’s Government-led efforts to reduce poverty. The DAG study: Approach and findings Development Partners have a clear responsibility to ensure that aid is spent effectively and reaches its intended beneficiaries – and will do all that is necessary in this regard. The DAG’s approach has therefore been to examine the robustness of the systems and safeguards that are in place to prevent, detect and address distortion together with available data on how effectively aid is spent and who it reaches. Further work, which could include detailed fieldwork, will be considered as part of a potential second phase. At the same time, given the importance of external aid in a resource scarce country like Ethiopia, the DAG was keen to make sure that programmes with a track record of development impact were not thrown off course without due cause. The Government of Ethiopia shares the responsibility for ensuring aid spent through government programmes is spent effectively and reaches its intended beneficiaries and, moreover, has the lead responsibility to investigate specific allegations through appropriate administrative and legal channels where this is justified. The study included a thorough review of the existing systems and safeguards for each programme, and consultation with development partners, civil society and the Government of Ethiopia. The study found that all four programmes have accountability systems in place that provide checks on distortion, including distortion for political gain, but that all four programmes should be further strengthened by giving more attention to transparency (through the generation and dissemination of information), independent monitoring, and the incentives which drive performance. Next steps The Government of Ethiopia has followed the progress of the DAG study with interest, and from the start has signalled its intent to work with Development Partners to act on any recommendations to improve the systems and safeguards in the programmes concerned, including investigating where appropriate. The DAG is now working with the Government to act on the recommendations for continued strengthening of safeguards, ultimately to maximise the developmental impact of all donor-supported programmes in Ethiopia. To read the full report of the DAG study, please follow this link Last Updated on Wednesday, 13 October 2010 09:39   DAG Retreat Reviews Purpose and Structure Thursday, 20 May 2010 14:05 Members of the Development Assistance Group (DAG) met for a one-day retreat on Wednesday 19 May 2010 in Addis Ababa to brainstorm on reviewing and updating the DAG purpose, focus and structure. The exercise is expected to feed into a wider independent State Minister Mekonnen Manyazewal addressing the DAG review to be undertaken shortly by external consultants. Also present at the retreat to provide DAG with the Ethiopian government's perspective on the work of the group and its relationship with the government in the context of aid effectiveness agenda was State Minister Mekonnen Manyazewal. The minister was accompanied by relevant high level staff from the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (MoFED). Last Updated on Friday, 21 May 2010 09:59   DAG Review - Consultants needed Wednesday, 05 May 2010 11:01 The overall purpose of the review is to improve the DAG’s effectiveness and thereby its contribution to Ethiopia’s development. The objectives of the review are to review the DAG’s objectives, structure and functions in order to improve its efficiency and effectiveness in strengthening donor dialogue with government, improving harmonization, and increasing the effectiveness of aid delivery to Ethiopia. The ‘DAG Structure’ refers to the DAG (Heads of Agency), Ex-Com, TWGs/SWGs and Secretariat; their relationship to one another and interface with the Government of Ethiopia. Qualified Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply. Qualified individuals should submit copies of CV, academic qualifications and testimonials not later than 23 May 2010. See attachment for more detail.  DAG Review - Vacancy (National Consultant needed) (230.15 kB)  DAG Review - Vacancy (International Consultant needed) (230.27 kB) Last Updated on Wednesday, 05 May 2010 11:07   Drafting A Menu of Engagement for 2010 and Beyond Friday, 29 January 2010 05:34 DAG Heads of Agency (HoA) have agreed on key areas of focus in the coming years as Ethiopia drafts and implements its second Poverty Reduction Strategy, the Plan for Accelerated and Sustain-able Development for the Eradication of Poverty (PASDEP). PAS-DEP II is expected to be in place by the start of summer 2009. Read more...

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