Key publications in 2024
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Key publications in 2024
The need to overhaul global economic governance will take on a renewed urgency in 2025 as negotiations on the UN Tax Convention and its two protocols advance and with the fourth Financing for Development Conference taking place at the end of June. We have put together a list of some major publications by Eurodad and other CSOs on issues that should feature prominently on the international agenda next year.
News
CS FfD Mechanism at the 2nd Preparatory Committee Session for the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development
by Civil Society Financing for Development (CS FfD) Mechanism
Taking place in New York from 3 to 6 December 2024, this session provided a platform for Member States and other stakeholders, including civil society, to reflect on the elements paper with a view to sharing priorities and expectations for the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development. This will feed into the zero draft of the FfD4 Outcome Document, to be released on 17 January 2025.
Read more | Read Eurodad's interventions
IDA21 cobbles together $100 billion replenishment in context of wider aid cuts
by Bretton Woods Project
Amid concerns about the policy package, the 21st replenishment for the International Development Association (IDA21), the World Bank’s low-income country lending arm, showed the difficulty of mobilising donor finance through elections and geopolitical tensions.
Read more | Read CSOs' submission for a transformative IDA21 replenishment
Blogs
Carbon markets, fossil fuels and COP29
by Joanna Cabello (SOMO), Myriam Vander Stichele (SOMO) and Ilona Hartlief (SOMO)
At the opening plenary of the COP29 in Azerbaijan, governments endorsed a controversial text on carbon markets without any discussion. The decision bypassed the democratic process inherent to UN proceedings.
Reports
"Guaranteeing the future? The role of guarantees in development and climate finance" - Now available in French and Spanish
by Farwa Sial (Eurodad) and C.P. Chandrasekhar
In recent years, the use of guarantees in development and climate finance has been increasing. Yet, what are the implications for aid budgets, socioeconomic development and the climate justice agenda? This report provides an overview of the current landscape - including a mapping of the providers of guarantees and analyses their opportunities and risks.
Read the report in English, French or Spanish
Towards economic and climate justice - A feminist analysis of critical trends
by the Feminist Action Nexus for Economic and Climate Justice
The 2024 edition of the Critical Trends Report focuses on four thematic areas: debt, the Bretton Woods Institutions (the World Bank and International Monetary Fund), taxation, and climate finance, highlighting key developments and releases of data between late 2023 and October 2024.
Read the report in English, French, Spanish and Arabic
Beyond GDP: A compendium of regional feminist perspectives
by Oxfam International
In this publication, leading feminist thinkers from Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, share perspectives on why we must move beyond gross domestic product (GDP) as the primary measure of societal progress. Drawing on regional examples, they demonstrate how the GDP-growth obsession is skewing policy-making towards measures that drive austerity, debt, corporate power, and exploitative labour practices, whilst invisibilising unpaid care and domestic work.
Read the report in English, French, Spanish and Arabic | Watch the recording of the launch event
Gender and climate: challenges for multilateral banking in Latin America and the Caribbean
by LATINDADD
This report examines the role of multilateral banks in climate financing and highlights their impact on women in the region, who face structural barriers to accessing resources. It also identifies that much of this financing relies on loans, perpetuating debt and inequality.
Useful resources
Rewatch the webinar "Why do we need a framework convention on sovereign debt?"
Building on the proposal for a UN Framework Convention on Sovereign Debt, this webinar focused on why a debt convention is needed and was also an opportunity for participants to ask their own questions on this topic.
Who’s afraid of the grassroots? IMF policymaking in the era of social discontent
by the Bretton Woods Project
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has historically shied away from formally engaging in politics. This position appears to be shifting with the institution’s rhetoric increasingly highlighting the political economy of reform and communication with the ‘grassroots’. The rhetoric, however, is currently a long way from reality.
Vacancies
Call for tender for evaluation of EC CSO-LA-2020/420-499 grant “Raising the voices of communities on the front-line in the fight against economic inequalities”
Eurodad | Deadline: 6 January
Call for tender for design services
Eurodad | Deadline: 12 January
Call for tender for English proofreading and copyediting services
Eurodad | Deadline: 12 January
Events
28-29 Jan 2025 | Barcelona and online | Eurodad International Conference "2025 - a once in a decade opportunity to achieve economic justice"
Co-hosted with our Spanish members Debt Observatory in Globalization (ODG), Oxfam Intermon and Alianza-ActionAid Spain, our next International Conference will take place in Barcelona. It will provide a unique opportunity to share ideas ahead of the UN Financing for Development Conference (FfD4) in the country that will host the summit.
Registrations for in-person participants are now closed, but you can register here to attend the event online.
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