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The Department for International Development (DfID) is a United Kingdom government department responsible for administering overseas aid. The goal of the department is "to promote sustainable development and eliminate world poverty". The Secretary of State for International Development is Justine Greening. In a 2010 report by the Development Assistance Committee (DAC), DfID was described as "an international development leader in times of global crisis". The UK aid logo is often used to publicly acknowledge DfID's development programmes are funded by UK taxpayers.
DfID's main programme areas of work are Education, Health, Social Services, Water Supply and Sanitation, Government and Civil Society, Economic Sector (including Infrastructure, Production Sectors and Developing Planning), Environment Protection, Research, and Humanitarian Assistance.
In 2009/10 DfID’s Gross Public Expenditure on Development was £6.65bn. Of this £3.96bn was spent on Bilateral Aid (including debt relief, humanitarian assistance and project funding) and £2.46bn was spent on Multilateral Aid (including support to the EU, World Bank, UN and other related agencies). Although the Department for International Development’s foreign aid budget was not affected by the cuts outlined by the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s 2010 spending review, DfID will see their administration budgets slashed by approximately 19 percent over the next four years. This would mean a reduction in back-office costs to account for only 2 percent of their total spend by 2015.
Melinda Ann Gates (née French; born August 15, 1964) is an American businesswoman and philanthropist.
She is the wife of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, and the co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She worked at Microsoft, where she was project manager for Microsoft Bob, Microsoft Encarta and Expedia.
Melinda Ann French was born on August 15, 1964 in Dallas, Texas. She is the second of four children to Raymond Joseph French Jr., an aerospace engineer, and Elaine Agnes Amerland, a homemaker. French has an older sister and two younger brothers.
French, a Roman Catholic, attended St. Monica Catholic School, where she was the top student in her class year. French graduated as valedictorian from Ursuline Academy of Dallas in 1982. She earned a bachelor's degree in computer science and economics from Duke University in 1986 and an MBA from Duke's Fuqua School of Business in 1987. At Duke, French was a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, Beta Rho Chapter.
Take One Productions was commission to film John Snow talking about how the Department for International Development (DFID) has helped lesser economically developed countries through its aid-giving projects, providing clean water, health care, and quality education, leading to an all-round improved way of life. Tel: 01403 256255 / 0207 1128565 Email: info@takeoneproductions.co.uk www.takeoneproductions.co.uk
Edited highlights of Bill and Melinda Gates' address to DFID staff as part of a wider trip to the UK to highlight the importance of aid. Speaking ahead of the foundation's Living Proof project launch with One International, the couple discussed their experience working on vaccines, malaria, education and reproductive health as well as the challenges of innovation, measurement of aid and the foundation's role in developing countries. On working with DFID and the UK to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, Bill Gates said: "We're all learning as we go. Closer collaboration as we see what works and what doesn't work will be important to us." "And the example that the UK is setting in maintaining the aid budget in a difficult time is one we're hoping other countries will respond i...
The UK Government believes that education is both a human right and a route out of poverty. It is an investment in our common future. The achievement of the Millennium Development Goals for Education - ensuring that by 2015 all children are able to complete a full course of primary schooling, and that gender disparities in all levels of education are eliminated are at the heart of our commitment to eliminate poverty. DFID's strategy on education will set out how the UK will work towards 2015 - towards making Education For All a reality. For more information on the how the UK is helping visit: http://www.dfid.gov.uk/educationstrategy
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Professor Charlotte Watts was appointed Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department for International Development in October 2015 and will deliver a Sussex Development Lecture on research and knowledge at DFID: what role for evidence in the new aid strategy? About the speaker As Chief Scientific Adviser at DFID Professor Watts' is responsible for: - providing or quality assurance of scientific advice to ministers, senior civil servants and government more widely - providing leadership and management of DFID’s research budget - championing the use of robust evidence, including from research and evaluation, across DFID - providing professional leadership to the specialists within DFID - working with the wider community of Chief Scientific Advisers to address cross departmental issues
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The Department for International Development (DFID) leads the UK’s work to end extreme poverty and they fund many organisations to achieve this goal. So what do you need to do to get your research proposal funded by DFID? And what do DFID funders look for? This Learning Lab, which was organised by the RESYST consortium, introduces DFID’s Research Programme, its aims, research challenges and what it wants to achieve with its research. It then gets into the meat of the presentation by addressing what DFID funders want in a proposal (with an emphasis on high quality research and outcomes and accurate response to DFID requirements) and what puts them off. The DFID advisors, in this webinar, give their thoughts and guidance on developing an effective research funding proposal. They provide ...
Head of the Climate and Environment Department at the UK Department for International Development (DFID), Andrea Ledward, speaks on the sidelines of the Global Landscapes Forum: The Investment Case, held on 6 June 2016 in London. The forum brought together experts from the financial services industry with leaders from the corporate sector, government and academia to take investments into sustainable landscapes to the next level. This second edition of the event offered a unique platform for experts to explore the role of private finance in enhancing livelihoods and landscapes across the globe. For more information on the GLF, visit: http://www.landscapes.org/london-2016/ To learn more about CIFOR, visit: http://www.cifor.org
Chorus
From sea to sea
Country to country
6 MC's bring the delicacies
It's a meeting of the minds
To ease the turmoil
360 degrees
Around the earth's soil
Verse 1 (Joe Flizzow- Too Phat, Malaysia)
Yo, Joe Flizzow
First to go on this track
Transcending continents
Who better
To hold it down for Malaysia?
Ain't no argument
I'm eloquent
With my words
And linguistics that I abuse
MC's wanna bite
But still got on
Some loose baby tooth
My rhymes so hot
We got fire blankets
In the vocal booth
Producers with extinguishers
To put out the blaze
When I'm on the loose
I'm rolling with the best
Meeting of the minds
Not a contest
Evoking MC's around the globe
With finesse and skills God blessed
From KL
But a hungry MC
Like I was from Budapest
Too Phat to go on diet
Toe to toe with Joe is ludicrous
Don't fool with this
You know we fly
Like a stewardess
Impressing pure hip-hop purists
In every single metropolis
Don't step to this listen
Rubbish we don't utter
Got to stop the hating
Unite us and start working together
So keep it butter
We'll kick it hotter
Than your average MC
They'll flee
We'll make 'em stutter
C'monâ¦
Chorus
From sea to sea
Country to country
6 MC's bring the delicacies
It's a meeting of the minds
To ease the turmoil
360 degrees
Around the earth's soil
From sea to sea
Country to country
6 MC's bring the delicacies
We spit sick and fabulous
First class MCing
Promoe from Sweden
Who the tighest European?
Verse 2 (Promoe- Loop Troop, Sweden)
'Cause I look so good
Your first thought is
Somebody else
Must've wrote this
But no ish
It's like God comin' down
To the pen when I rip it
God comin' out my mouth
When I spit it
God comin' out the sleeve
When you break out the record
Put it on your turntable
Instant connection
From me to you
With infinite love
Music must've been
Sent from above
To free the people
And treat them equal
Make us humble
'Cause only the meek will
Inherit the earth
And perish the dirt
Righteousness will cover the world
Chorus
From sea to sea
Country to country
6 MC's bring the delicacies
It's a meeting of the minds
To ease the turmoil
360 degrees
Around the earth's soil
From sea to sea
Country to country
6 MC's bring you delicacies
Next up
I believe that's Vandal
Light 'em up
Blow 'em out
Like a candle
Verse 3 (Vandal- SMC, Canada)
I'm certified, kid
It's over when your mic drops
'Cause I can tangle
With the focus of a Cyclops
Battering beats
Is more than just a hobby
I'm godly
And ain't nobody
Ever gonna stop me
My form's like karate
Freestyle is infinite
My mind's a temple
I reside in its pyramid
I know ya' hearing it
I feel your attention
Your thirst quenching
From the words
I'm inventing
The first sentient
That the earth's gonna mention
When it comes to this worldwide
Hip-hop connection
Vandal representin'
SMC with Too Phat
Making everybody
In the place
Say true that
Chorus
From sea to sea
Country to country
6 MC's bring the delicacies
It's a meeting of the minds
To ease the turmoil
360 degrees
Around the earth's soil
From sea to sea
Country to country
6 MC's bring the delicacies
We got one DJ
Bringin' the delicacies
Smooth on the cut
And guaranteed
To amaze ya'
DJ T-Bone
Straight from Malaysia
Verse 4 (Freestyle- Brooklyn, USA)
The game's cold
So I'm forced to boil it
Ain't here to spoil it
Aluminium rap
Niggaz'll foil it
Same ish
Different toilet
But as I counterstrike
This be a day of defeat
You'll need to
Install cheats or retreat
Couldn't be beat
If I was drums in Africa for wax
Crack the manufacturer
My caliber's
Equipped with silencers
Hush the massacre
Toxins hit you
Wit' da' force of 40 oxen
My concoction's
Leavin' you without no options
No need for introduction
Let yo' body feel the groove
Turn ya' back
And I'll react
You'll need my mic
Surgically removed
My ish's off da' wall
Like pictures of my ex
Flip styles like Rolodex
Get a grip like solo sets, haha
Don't bother testin'
My determination
It could lead
To your termination
Somebody pass me
My medication
This dedication's
To all the people
I'd like to thank
I get pounds
Without robbin'
The British banks, son
Chorus
From sea to sea
Country to country
6 MC's bring the delicacies
It's a meeting of the minds
To ease the turmoil
360 degrees
Around the earth's soil
From sea to sea
Country to country
6 MC's bring the delicacies
Now who's next up to bat
I think it's Weapon X
Get on the mic
And show 'em
Australian context
Verse 5 (Weapon X- IFA, Australia)
It's you-know-who, kids
But I ain't Voldemort
Rappers scared to say my name
They know
When I'm holdin' court
I'm thorough
In this soldier's sport
And talent
Can't be sold or bought
Just as wisdom and experience
Cannot be told or taught
Hold the fort
I rep' the globe
Across the galaxies
And find the state of Earth
And it's inhabitants embarrassing
We all human
Skip the arrogant comparisons
We won't be here
Another hundred years
The rate we're ravaging
My words stab and sting
Feel it in your abdomen
I'm strollin' through your mental
And casually grabbin' things
A just ruler in a land
Of would be savage kings
Weapon X, IFA, Too Phat
We damaging...
Chorus
From sea to sea
Country to country
6 MC's bring the delicacies
It's a meeting of the minds
To ease the turmoil
360 degrees
Around the earth's soil
From sea to sea
Country to country
6 MC's bring the delicacies
Guaranteed to hit hard spit bars
Each to blaze ya'
Mr. Malique rappin' for East Malaysia
Verse 6 (Malique- Too Phat, Malaysia)
I come from a land
Where everybody eats rice
And all the people speak nice
And tourists get a Rolex
At a cheap price
Pretty kites at beach sites
That make you breathe right
In some cities
Students still collide
To keep they peeps rights
We hostin' different ghettos
Different sounds each night
No drive by's in caddies
Clocking marks
Up on the east side
No kids with 40's
Shootin' dices under street lights
And buck guns
Here thugs swingin' samurais
In street fights
But buck a where I resides
As long as the beat's nice
I keep my rhymes precise
And when it recites
It makes you
Wanna peep twice
Impressin' each type
In each tribe
From jail to kids in Yale
To tribal Indians
Blowin' peace pipes
And buck the cheap hype
Your metaphors are re-writes
Your style is like tryin'
Your granny panties on
Could never be tight
The type that chicks like
Dudes wanna be like
And while you jerkin' offa free sites
I'm doin' three dykes, uuh
Yeah, I'm a Malay kid
And no
You not mistaken
The type a A&R; will tell Dre
"You gotta take him!"
Some haters plottin'
To cut my hands off
So they could shake 'em
Malaysia representin'
Peace assalamualaikum
Chorus (2x)
From sea to sea
Country to country
6 MC's bring the delicacies
It's a meeting of the minds
To ease the turmoil
360 degrees