In this short blog, Eurodad looks back at the past senior level meeting (SLM) of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC), a multi-stakeholder platform established to make sure all development actors deliver on their commitments to ensure development cooperation is really eradicating poverty and bringing about sustainable development.
Aid Effectiveness
22 Jul 2019
12 Jul 2019
Will this weekend's Senior Level Meeting turn the tide on effective development?
#SDGs #fightinequality #FfD #2030Agenda #2019SLM #Argentina #CSO #DevelopmentFinance
- Aid Effectiveness
11 Jul 2019
Global Partnership on Effective Development Cooperation: Will this weekend’s Senior Level Meeting turn the tide on effective development?
In this blog, Eurodad offers its take on the upcoming senior level meeting (SLM) of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC), a multi-stakeholder platform established to make sure all development actors deliver on their commitments to ensure development cooperation is really eradicating poverty and bringing about sustainable development.
- Aid Effectiveness
- Global Processes
29 May 2019
Delivering human rights and the SDGs: Does IMF Conditionality pass muster?
Last week the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published its Review of Program Design and Conditionality 2018, which provides an overview of the IMF’s lending programmes between 2011 and 2017
- Aid Effectiveness
23 May 2019
Call to action - support the tax justice pledge
#taxjustice #europeanelections #developmentfinance #aid
- Aid Effectiveness
24 Apr 2019
Eurodad in Action at the UN Financing for Development Forum
The United Nations convened in New York last week for the Financing for Development Forum. While the outcome document has been negotiated in advance, the Forum itself offered lots of opportunities to discuss what change we need to finance the sustainable development goals.
- Publicly-backed Private Finance
19 Apr 2019
2018 development aid figures. Why aid reporting rules matter for more effective development
Last week the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released their preliminary figures on the amount of official development assistance (ODA), or development aid, raised in 2018. Following the OECD’s publication, Eurodad released an initial reaction.
- Aid Effectiveness
16 Apr 2019
State of emergency: UN convenes Financing Forum while a new wave of debt crises threatens to derail sustainable development
This week, governments will meet at the United Nations in New York for the Financing for Development Forum, and the challenge is very clear. Too little progress has been made towards achieving the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs), which to a large extent is the consequence of lacking finance. The 2015 Addis Ababa Action Agenda, a UN framework adopted at the same time as the SDGs, which is supposed to ensure money flows toward development and the achievement of the SDGs, is not fulfilling its objective.
- Aid Effectiveness
15 Apr 2019
Challenges rise fast, reforms proceed slowly as political blockades remain an issue – Spring Meetings round-up
Finance ministers from around the world gathered in Washington DC last week for the IMF and World Bank spring meetings. Held amid an economic downturn and emerging risks of a new round of debt crises, the key task was to discuss how the two organisations can be made more effective to address these challenges, which threaten to affect people’s lives and derail progress toward development goals.
- Publicly-backed Private Finance
10 Apr 2019
Plummeting aid figures fail to meet spending target while leaving poorest behind
New preliminary aid figures released by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) today show spending in 2018 fell by 2.7 per cent compared to 2017, with the neediest countries being hit hardest.
- Aid Effectiveness