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Who profits from the Global Gateway? The EU’s new strategy for development cooperation

This week we launched a report with Counter Balance and Oxfam, which analyses in detail the Global Gateway, the EU’s new global investment and development strategy. Our report dives deep into the question: is the Global Gateway advancing the EU's foreign policy and corporate interests at the expense of real development in its partner countries?

Read the report

Read the press release

Watch the recording of the launch event

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Join Eurodad and partners at the CSPF and WBG/ IMF Annual Meetings 2024

Eurodad staff will join members and partners at the World Bank-IMF Annual Meetings, in Washington DC between 21 and 26 October 2024.

Despite the increased pressure to reform a global financial architecture that is no longer fit for purpose, the responses of both institutions are either absent or in the wrong direction. Eurodad will be calling out the ineffectiveness of action to tackle the debt crisis that is consuming many of the world's poorest countries, making the case for discussions to move to the UN, while also emphasising the urgency of debt cancellation. We will also expose the multiple failings of the new plans of the World Bank to recast itself to respond to new challenges as a follow up to its so-called Evolution Roadmap.

In the link below you will find a range of events co-organised by Eurodad, including those in which our staff will appear on panels. Follow us on X/Twitter @eurodad.

See the list of events

Reports

Year one of World Bank Paris Agreement alignment in the energy sector: ‘green conditionality’ dwarfs green investments

by Bretton Woods Project

This new briefing reviews all 71 ‘energy & extractives’ projects financed by IDA and IBRD in the fiscal year 2024, and looks at what Paris alignment means for the World Bank’s direct financing in the energy sector. Its findings suggest that the World Bank’s approach to Paris alignment is being used to a significant extent to impose ‘green conditionalities' on borrowing countries, especially in the global south.

Read the briefing

Useful resources

FfD4: Strategies for civil society engagement in the MENA region

by MenaFem

This webinar aimed at demystifying the FfD process for civil society in the MENA region and highlighting pathways for meaningful engagement in the lead-up to the fourth UN Financing for Development Conference (FfD4). The goal was to build the knowledge and capacity of feminist movements and broader civil society in the region, enabling them to actively participate and advocate for gender-just financing solutions at global and regional platforms.

Watch the webinar

Global People's Assembly 2024 - All videos

The Global People's Assembly represents the culmination of constituency, national, and regional People's Assemblies, where representatives of marginalised and excluded communities, along with civil society, come together to discuss critical issues of global justice. This year, the Assembly amplified these voices at the Summit of the Future and the UN General Assembly, focusing on key UN processes, climate action, debt, tax, Financing for Development, gender equality, and social justice.

Watch all videos | Learn more about the Global People's Assembly

Events

16 Oct | Online | Rally: Resisting the global debt crisis

At this online event you’ll hear an inspiring line-up of speakers share how they’re confronting the debt crisis – and learn what activists and campaigners in the UK can do to stand in solidarity with them. 

Register here

16 Oct | London and online | Book launch: Feminist policymaking in turbulent times: critical perspectives

The book brings together feminist scholars and practitioners to reflect on feminist policymaking in the current political moment. The event includes short reflections from the authors (see the list of authors at the event and the chapters below) and wider conversation.

Online registration | In person registration

28-29 Jan 2025 | Barcelona and online | Eurodad international conference: 2025 - a once in a decade opportunity to achieve economic justice

Our next International Conference will take place in Barcelona in January and will be co-hosted with our Spanish members Debt Observatory in Globalization (ODG), Oxfam Intermon and Alianza-ActionAid Spain. It will provide a unique opportunity to share ideas ahead of FfD4 in the country that will host the summit.  

Stay tuned, registrations open soon!

Vacancies

Global campaigns and policy coordinator (Europe)

Global Alliance for Tax Justice | Deadline: 4 October

Tax justice officer (Chargé.e de plaidoyer justice fiscale) 

CCFD-Terre Solidaire 

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.