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Oct
31
2023
HYBRID
Washington, DC
10:00—11:30 AM ET / 2:00-3:30 PM GMT
September 25, 2023
In 1993, the World Bank created the Inspection Panel, the first accountability mechanism housed at a multilateral development bank. The Inspection Panel gives a voice to communities concerned about adverse effects of World Bank-funded projects and promotes accountability through its independent fact...
Jun
15
2023
HYBRID
Washington, DC
12:30—7:00 PM ET
May 31, 2023
Leaded gasoline is now history. Yet from Flint, Michigan, to Dhaka, Bangladesh—and almost everywhere in between—the silent scourge of lead poisoning is still with us. Join the Center for Global Development and Pure Earth for a comprehensive half-day of learning and planning for collective action to ...
Nov
30
2022
8:30—9:45 AM Eastern Time (US & Canada) 1:30 - 2:45pm Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
November 18, 2022
On November 28, 2022, the OECD will release the Multilateral Development Finance 2022 report which sheds new light on this system’s funding and activities. It tracks changes in the donor landscape and resource availability in the midst of ongoing crises. The report evaluates the system’s response to...
Sep
7
2017
11:00—12:30 PM
August 22, 2017
Policymakers in rich and poor countries interested in boosting growth increasingly view women entrepreneurs as an underutilized asset. The launch of the Women’s Entrepreneurship Facility (We-Fi) at the G20 Summit is one example of a major initiative to mobilize more than $1 billion to help wom...
Nov
8
2012
10:00—11:30 AM
October 22, 2012
Interest in international development education has increased dramatically over the past decade, sparking a wave of new undergraduate courses and concentrations and dozens of new graduate degree programs. Are these new courses and programs meeting the needs of the next generation of development expe...
Dec
16
2008
2:00—4:00 PM
December 03, 2008
The last decade has seen a growing number of efforts to measure the quality of foreign aid, including part of CGD's own Commitment to Development Index (CDI). This event will showcase three new projects of this kind—projects that dramatize how the quality of aid matters as well the quantity, that po...
Jun
10
2008
10:00—12:00 PM
June 03, 2008
U.S. engagement with the world has been affected by new foreign policy, national security, and economic challenges. These global challenges have stretched the bounds of both civilian and military involvement in development. The current system of foreign assistance has proven to be inflexible and o...