Civil society organisations from around the world reject the nomination of Mr. Banga for World Bank president and call for an end of the gentlemen's agreement.
Development Finance
Banga's nomination has Empire written all over it
Eurodad's questions ex-MasterCard chief Ajay Banga's nomination by the USA as their candidate for president of the World Bank Group. It is crucial that the next World Bank leader breaks with the past and has a vision for the future, but a Banga presidency will bring only more of the same.
- Climate Finance
- IFIs
OECD DAC: Rich countries can include excess Covid-19 vaccines donated to poor countries in their 2022 aid budgets - and they might continue doing this in 2023…
Indications are that just a small amount of countries opposed controversial practice of repackaging vaccines originally stockpiled for rich nations as aid.
- Development Finance
- Covid-19
Eurodad response to resignation of World Bank President David Malpass
In her response to Malpass' resignation, Eurodad director Jean Saldanha urges the World Bank Group to see this as an opportunity to rethink the role of the institution.
- Climate Finance
- IFIs

Our Future is Public: Santiago Declaration for Public Services
#SantiagoDeclaration #PublicServices #PPPs #HistoryRePPPeatedII #DevelopmentFinance #DebtJustice
- Publicly-backed Private Finance
- PPPs
It’s Time to Move Away from Public-Private Partnerships & Build a Future That is Public
The rise of public-private partnerships (PPPs) has deeply affected the delivery of public services and infrastructure projects across the world. In this opinion piece, experts from Eurodad, Latindadd and APMDD highlight why we must move away from this failed model and promote public options to build a future that is public.
By Océane Blavot (Eurodad), Rodolfo Bejarano (Latindadd), Mae Buenaventura (APMDD)
- Publicly-backed Private Finance
- PPPs
Our Future is Public: Santiago Declaration for Public Services
The Declaration is a momentous agreement signed by more than 200 organisations, including Eurodad, who vow to work to transform our systems to ones which value human rights and ecological sustainability over GDP growth and narrowly defined economic gains.
- Publicly-backed Private Finance
- PPPs
2023: A more just world is still possible
Eurodad Director Jean Saldanha looks forward to the challenges and solutions in 2023.
- Climate Finance
GPEDC summit: New monitoring framework gives hope for better development cooperation
Last month, the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) - a broad and high level association of governments and organisations tasked with ensuring development cooperation works - hosted its latest summit. The stakes could not have been higher as the world enters 2023.
- Aid Effectiveness
Demystifying Bretton Woods institutions’ rhetoric on public services
Drawing on the specific case of IMF and World Bank’s response to the multiple crisis triggered by the pandemic, a journal article shows that there is a discourse-practice disjuncture in the Bretton Woods institutions approach to public services as they continue to favour austerity and market-oriented solutions for the delivery of public services. The article therefore seeks to demystify the institutions rhetoric and demand the adoption of a different way of understanding public services, and social policy more broadly.
- Gender Justice
- IFIs