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Mali: Oxfam tells donors: “get it right”

These displaced people would give anything to go home to Mali (Photo: unocha.org)

May 17, 2013

Elise Ford of OXFAM accepts that an event like the “Together for a New Mali” conference in Brussels is crucial for raising funds, but stresses the need to set the right tone, pointing out that similar large-scale funding events have suffered from a lack of ownership on the part of the populations targeted, citing Haiti as a dangerous precedent

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