The phrase "aid to acknowledge" is not correct in standard written English.
It seems to be an incomplete or awkward construction and may not convey a clear meaning without additional context.
Example: "The organization aims to provide aid to acknowledge the contributions of volunteers."
Alternatives: "assistance to recognize" or "support to acknowledge".
The crisis in Darfur highlights the need for aid organizations to acknowledge these contradictions and dispel any doubts about what their priority is and what they will or will not do.
The United States, Madagascar's largest bilateral donor and provider of humanitarian aid, also refused to acknowledge the Rajoelina administration.
The neocons, surely, were about power, not money.But he arrived at a time when the bank, and other aid agencies, were beginning to acknowledge that power and poverty are linked.
We need to speak up about wellbeing in the aid world; we need to acknowledge that often it is not weakness but compassion that can lead to experiences affecting us so deeply.
Only in recent years have those same international institutions come to acknowledge that aid and other forms of assistance are inseparable from "governance issues" -- meaning that there is no point in trying to help people who are, literally, helping themselves to the state's riches.
But the rich world has also at some point to acknowledge that much aid to countries under unreformed governments has in the end been wasted.That is why the third priority is to become more selective about the purpose of such help, and tougher on the manner of its delivery.
Instead, it calls on donors to acknowledge the politicisation of aid "across the board" in Ethiopia and to work together in bringing pressure on Ethiopia's government when the current country assistance strategy expires in 2011.
I'm more sympathetic to aid (while acknowledging its myriad shortcomings) than Dowden is, but he's on target in most areas.
Incapable of financial support, Buenos Aires sent lawyer Manuel Aguirre to the United States, to request aid and acknowledge the declaration of independence.
Chancellor Alistair Darling said this evening he was "puzzled" by the award of legal aid to the MPs and acknowledged the public would be "hopping mad" over the decision.
