The phrase "aid to push" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to convey assistance in promoting or advancing something, but the construction is awkward.
Example: "The organization provided aid to push the initiative forward."
Alternatives: "assistance to promote" or "support to advance".
In 2011, Britain and the US warned they would use foreign aid to push for homosexuality to be decriminalised in Africa.
South Korean officials have also suspected the North of using the humanitarian program for political leverage, while the North has often accused the better-off South of using humanitarian aid to push its political demands in negotiations.
"From my dark cell I urge them to mobilise all legal and diplomatic means, including the suspension of all financial aid, to push the government to take real action to eradicate slavery as well as the racism and exclusion underlying it," wrote Ould Abeid.
Gay rights appear to have become a new frontier in diplomatic relations between Western powers and African governments, with the US and UK warning they would use foreign aid to push for homosexuality to be decriminalised on the socially conservative continent.
Although sceptics argue that the report amounts to little more than a call for more engagement (including inter-Korean dialogue and humanitarian aid), it may help to push human rights higher up the agenda.
Save the Children is working with dozens of other aid agencies to push these issues higher up the agenda next year.
Andrew Cordesman advocated "refocusing U.S. aid to slowly push Egypt's military toward compromise and restraint, building up Egypt's more secular and liberal forces, and making it clear that the U.S. supports the role of Egypt's moderate Islamists".
A13 Dueling Over Farm Aid The Senate rejected a Republican proposal to limit emergency farm aid to $5.5 billion, pushing ahead with a Democratic plan worth $2 billion more.
Risking a presidential veto, the Senate today rejected a Republican proposal to limit emergency farm aid to $5.5 billion, pushing ahead with a Democratic measure worth $2 billion more.
In the 1980s the International Monetary Fund, which with its sister institution the World Bank has directed much of the donor aid to Africa, pushed "structural adjustment programs," attempting to shrink African governments, trim bloated public sectors and open up trade.
Among them were these substantial outlays: *A $60 million increase in American military aid to Israel, pushing military assistance up to $1.9 billion -- the largest item in the foreign aid budget.
