Development and Cooperation


	Contributions from the Column Monitor Challenging guidelines Afghanistan: NGOs adopt code of conduct AIDS drug: Brazil achieves price reduction US Congress slows down Millennium Challenge Account German development budget 2006 Pro-poor growth in practice Military intervention hardly helps G8 summit disappoints NGOs GTZ attracts international funds Generic pharma factory in Kabul New EU trade preferences Privatisation dispute misses the point Scant participation by civil society 8-9/2005		German development budget 2006 According to Federal Government plans, the German Development Ministry (BMZ) will have much more money at its disposal next year than it has this year. The draft budget for 2006, which Hans Eichel, the finance minister, presented to the cabinet last month, earmarks ¤ 4.04 billion for BMZ. This is almost 5.8 percent more than parliament allotted to BMZ in 2005. According to the Finance Ministry, the increase will essentially be allotted to reconstruction after the Indian Ocean tsunami and to contributions to multilateral institutions. The draft budget is not legally binding and is likely to be revised after the expected general elections in autumn. (ell)