The EU's Global Gateway: a civil society perspective
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The EU's Global Gateway: a civil society perspective
On 9-10 October, the second Global Gateway Forum will be held in Brussels. Organised by the European Commission, it promises to be a carefully stage-managed success story with little space for the civil society perspective, despite the major implications for the EU’s development policy.
One year after the launch of the report "Who profits from the Global Gateway? The EU’s new strategy for development cooperation, and on the eve of the Forum, ActionAid EU, CONCORD Europe, Counter Balance and Eurodad are organising an event to discuss the real implications of the Global Gateway strategy. The panel will include voices from civil society in the Global South and the European Parliament. This will provide an alternative to the official narrative, spotlighting the impacts of energy, mining, climate and infrastructure projects on the ground.
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News
CSOs call on the World Bank to address patient abuse and systemic harms caused by its private healthcare investments
Sixty organisations and experts, including Eurodad, are demanding that the World Bank's Board investigate the International Finance Corporation's (IFC) private investments in healthcare following evidence of systemic problems affecting care, patients and staff.
Reparatory and climate justice must be at the core of COP30, say global leaders and movements
An international letter — endorsed by more than 140 organisations and 110 public figures from across the world — urges COP30 to address the interconnected crises of colonial legacies and climate breakdown.
Putting a Just Transition at the Heart of the Climate Bank Roadmap 2.0
The European Investment Bank will begin deliberations of the second phase of its Climate Bank Roadmap, next month. In a joint-letter 19 civil society organisations, including Eurodad, have sent the Board of Directors fifteen recommendations to ensure that a Just Transition is at the heart of this new strategy.
Reports
Girls before creditors: the case for prioritising girls in G20 debt reforms
by Malala Fund, MENAFem, Nala Feminist Collective, Plan International and Restless Development
This brief outlines why debt justice is key to securing girls’ rights — and what the G20 must do next to build more just, resilient and economically independent societies.
Useful resources
Submission: Views on the Baku to Belem Roadmap to 1.3T
by Climate Action Network
The Roadmap has the potential to establish a collective vision and action plan for scaling up climate finance to developing countries, and should use its mandate to put a particular emphasis on public finance, both under the UNFCCC framework and through other relevant international processes. In contrast, if the Roadmap overemphasises the role of private finance in establishing this collective vision, it risks failing its mandate. The recommendations in this submission aim to provide concrete steps to ensure that the Baku to Belem Roadmap delivers meaningful outcomes.
We can pay for it
by Oil Change International
This factsheet shows how rich countries can unlock $6.6 trillion (USD) per year in public funding to pay their fair share for climate action at home and abroad. By ending fossil fuel handouts, making big polluters pay, and taxing the super rich, governments can raise the public money needed for a global just transition to renewables and other urgent needs from healthcare to housing.
The Rabat Declaration and Roadmap
Following a gathering in Rabat (Morocco), a group of feminist and allied organisations have drafted and signed the Rabat Declaration and Roadmap: a feminist advocacy agenda for economic and climate justice in this pivotal year and beyond. Building from the foundation of existing feminist structural analysis and the expertise of the participants, the Declaration outlines a comprehensive vision for solidarity, liberation, and sovereignty of the Global Majority.
Aid talks - Reparations now: funding a just future!
by Aid/Watch Australia and the Reality of Aid - Asia Pacific
Just a month after the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4), this podcast dives into the Compromiso de Sevilla. With debt crises, austerity, inequality, and rising military spending on the table, civil society voices, including Eurodad, are pushing back. What was compromised—or committed to in Sevilla? In this episode, guests from civil society and UNESCAP unpack the hits and misses of the outcome document, and explore what real structural transformation could look like.
DADA Power Podcast
by FEMNET
The DADA Power Podcast pioneers a profound discourse on African feminist principles in relation to women and girls’ economic justice and rights in Africa. This podcast is a valuable hub for stimulating conversations, providing clear explanations of complex gender and macroeconomic concepts, theories and principles as well as a platform for speaking up for communities that are underrepresented, overlooked and marginalised.
Events
30 Sep | Edinburgh and online | What’s next for aid and development?
In the context of dramatic changes to the aid and development landscape, including cuts to aid budgets by traditional donor countries, pervasive conflicts and ongoing climate shocks, at this year’s Scotland's International Development Alliance conference participants will explore alternative funding models, innovation, and effective power shifting/ partnership work in development.
2 Oct | Paris | Shaping the future of international tax cooperation
From trade wars to UN talks, global tax cooperation is at stake. During this event, ICRICT commissioners, policymakers and civil society will debate how to build a fairer international tax system amid great-power rivalry.
15-17 Oct | Bratislava and online | Ambrela Development Forum
The world is at a critical turning point. From ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza to the escalating climate crisis and shrinking space for civil society, global partnerships are being tested. The Ambrela Development Forum (ADF) 2025 offers a unique space to navigate these complex challenges and reclaim global partnerships through dialogue.
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This newsletter has been produced with co-funding from the European Union, Bread for the World and Norad. The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of Eurodad and can under no circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of the funders. |
