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Our Accountability for the SDGs

Jindra Cekan Accountability: Are we responsible for meeting the SDGs? Yes, personally and by programming for more sustainability In a 2014 article about mutual accountability for the SDGs, Dr. Paul Zeitz states that “Sustainable development is the most urgent challenge facing humanity. The fu

Uncertain future for Slovakia’s development funds

Dana Marekova The Slovak government does not seem to understand the difference between export promotion and development aid, as it proposes to lump the two under one institution, Eximbanka SR Despite the mounting concerns about blended finance, Slovakia’s export-credit agency (ECA) Eximb

Poor governance in the Pacific: the forgotten issue

Stephen Howes The World Bank publishes annual updates of its list of fragile states and ten Pacific nations are included in the Bank’s annual fragility assessment exercise. Six are rated fragile. There was a time when Australia lectured the Pacific. John Howard said in 2004 that Austra

Germany freezes funding to WWF earmarked for Congo after reports of human abuse

The German government has frozen funding to WWF following a series of investigations by Buzzfeed revealing that the charity funds, equips, and works directly with forces that have tortured, raped and killed people. WWF has repeatedly suppressed accusations of violence and abuse.

Improving the monitoring and evaluation of facilities in the Australian aid program

Scott Bayley In Australia, monitoring and evaluation guidance provides a reasonably comprehensive approach for evaluating individual aid investments, however, providing detailed insights into the facilities is still difficult. International development is a highly challenging sector with a range of

Implementing, Scaling and Planning for Aid Exit and Sustainability

Jindra Cekan Rarely do funders return to evaluate what lasts after aid projects end, but when they do, we can find myriad pleasures: 1) sustainability of activities we launched and nurtured together and hoped would last as is, even 15 years later, or 2) new ways local partic

G20 Finance Ministers Must Face Climate Risk to Economy

Systemic response required as more banks back away from coal Finance ministers and central bankers representing 90% of the global economy (the “G20”) will meet  under increasing pressure to regulate and prepare financial markets for the threat of climate breakdown. “Overall the financing

Managing the transition from aid: lessons for donors and recipients

Annalisa Prizzon The past 15 years have seen 35 low-income countries (LICs) achieving middle-income country (MIC) status. While income per capita is only one measure of a country’s economic and social development, the move to MIC status can shape its mix of financing resources and often triggers d

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Yemen nearing the worlds worst cholera outbreak

Oxfam has calculated that if suspected new cases continue to be identified at current rates for the rest of the year, this spike in the outbreak will exceed past outbreaks.  Fears that the world’s worst cholera outbreak could be set for a massive resurgence are growing as aid agencies in Yeme

Blockchain for development

Josh Hallwright At the 2019 Australasian Aid Conference, some of these pilot projects were presented to demonstrate the extent to which Australian NGOs are taking blockchain technology seriously. The world is undergoing continuous change, with peaks of dramatic leaps. Ignoring for a moment sign

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