Emergencies heighten societies’ need to be governed. Accordingly, the COVID-19 pandemic put systems of public governance under severe pressure across the globe. Civic freedoms were widely curtailed for public health reasons. Scarce resources needed to be allocated swiftly, with little opportunity for debate.
This paper highlights the case of MUVA Assistentes, a public works programme that provided training and mentoring to young vulnerable women in urban Mozambique.
Aid agencies that support public accountability reforms commonly do so in the same places, and with similar state and civil society actors. However, the combined effects of their separate programmatic actions are rarely analysed.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a year ago turned global energy markets upside down. Although oil and gas prices have come down from their highest points and energy issues have faded somewhat from the news, the effects of the war in Ukraine on energy will continue and evolve in 2023.
This document is intended to assess the status on energy indicators relating to Goal 7 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Latin America and the Caribbean.
As the Caribbean subregion seeks to implement strategies for meeting its obligations under the Paris Agreement, the sustainable development of its land transportation subsector has emerged as a significant challenge.
If current trends continue, women and men will be equally represented in the field of biology in 2069. In physics, math, and engineering, women should not expect to reach parity for more than a century. The gender gap in science and technology is narrowing, but at a decidedly unimpressive pace. And even if parity is achievable, what about equity?
This book traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth century to the Taliban resurgence today. The author introduces readers to the bewildering diversity of tribal and ethnic groups in Afghanistan, explaining what unites them as Afghans despite the regional, cultural, and political differences that divide them.
Leaving almost half a million dead and displacing an estimated twelve million people, the Syrian Civil War is a humanitarian catastrophe of unimaginable scale. This book analyzes the causes and course of this bitter conflict and traces how the fighting has reduced Syria to a crisis-ridden vassal state with little prospect of political reform, national reconciliation, or economic reconstruction:
In January 2021, the Great Green Wall Accelerator was announced at the third One Planet Summit in Paris. This article analyzes how the political will to accelerate the Great Green Wall reveals power dynamics between Western and Sahelian countries.
European defence is built on cooperation: between NATO and the EU; between the EU and its partners; and a myriad of multilateral and bilateral defence cooperation agreements.
According to the main results of this opinion poll, the majority of Belarusians are not satisfied with the economic situation, and only 15% of Belarusian urban residents believe that Belarus does not need reforms. This indicates a public consensus on the need for change.
There is no question that Africa is endowed with abundant natural resources of different magnitudes. However, more than a decade of high commodity prices and new hydrocarbon discoveries across the continent has led countless international organizations, donor agencies, and non-governmental organizations to devote considerable attention to the potential of natural resource–based development.
En este informe se presenta un conjunto de estadísticas básicas que caracterizan la situación económica, sociodemográfica y ambiental de la región referidas a 2022 // This report presents a set of basic statistics describing the economic, socio-demographic and environmental situation of the region up to 2022.
Renewed strategic competition among the great powers is challenging and transforming the U.S.-led liberal international order. In Central Asia, revisionist efforts are already challenging regional U.S. leadership and undermining its capacity to establish overseas bases and access.
Military basing and access across the Indian Ocean region is an important object of strategic competition in the contemporary international security environment.
Compared to other regions, sub-Saharan Africa is not a high strategic priority for China, Russia, or the United States. That said, in recent years, U.S. concerns about Chinese and Russian basing in sub-Saharan Africa have grown,
The Pacific island clusters of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia share a geopolitical reality: they lie in the main space that separates the world’s two biggest powers.
The United States has declared that the post-Cold War era is over and that competition among today’s major world powers will shape what comes next. The United States must project power globally and maintain a sustained regional presence in the Middle East, Sub-Sahara Africa, and the Western Indian Ocean.
Bangladesh’s Primary Education Stipend Program (PESP) provides stipends for 13 million primary schoolchildren to 10 million mothers. In 2017 the method of payment changed from cash to mobile money. This study considers the experience of the mothers with the shift to mobile money.
