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Blog Post
May 07, 2025
As rates of conflict and fragility rise across West Africa and the Sahel, aid flows from the largest donors, including France and the US, decline. These reductions threaten to eliminate life-saving health and food assistance programs, worsening already dire social and humanitarian conditions, partic...
Blog Post
April 29, 2025
Mobilising private capital in emerging markets and developing economies is often difficult owing to high perceived risk, limited collateral, and underdeveloped financial markets. Guarantees play an important role in overcoming these barriers. In simple terms, a guarantee lowers the risk for private ...
POLICY PAPER
April 29, 2025
With increasing pressure on European development budgets, optimizing the efficiency and impact of the European Union’s concessional finance is critical. This paper examines how the European Fund for Sustainable Development Plus (EFSD+) guarantee instrument can be strengthened to better support susta...
Blog Post
March 11, 2025
With the US pulling back from development assistance, the UK cutting the aid budget to fund an increase in defense spending, and many traditional donors giving less and less to poorer countries, Germany must decide whether to follow suit—or stand firm in its commitment to global solidarity and to ta...
Blog Post
February 11, 2025
While it is still unclear how long the current freeze on US foreign aid will last, and when and where it might resume, it seems the US, under the second Trump administration, may be ready to abandon its role as a lead aid provider. If so—other countries will need to step up. Here, we look at which c...
Blog Post
January 21, 2025
Official Development Assistance (ODA) is facing mounting pressure as global challenges such as climate change, pandemics, and humanitarian crises demand increasing resources while development budgets are shrinking. With less than five years remaining to achieve the UN sustainable development goals, ...
REPORT
January 21, 2025
Official development assistance (ODA) is at a crossroads, and reform is needed to balance the original mission of poverty reduction with the growing demands of global challenges such as climate change. While there is broad agreement on the need to clarify ODA’s purpose, modernise its governance fram...
Blog Post
January 08, 2025
Development cooperation will come under more pressure in 2025, with aid budgets shrinking across key European donors. What are the key issues that will likely shape the EU’s approach to international partnerships, and opportunities and challenges for the bloc on development cooperation?