Women’s Political Agency in Difficult Settings: Analysis of Evidence from Egypt, Nigeria, Mozambique, and Pakistan (24/02/2023)

Male gatekeeping and biased social norms in difficult settings characterized by fragility, authoritarianism, and conflict create challenges for women’s political participation. This article explores the nature of challenges experienced by women and how they exercise political agency in such settings—as voters, claimants, and brokers of services, and as activists.

Centering Feminists and Feminism in Protests in Africa (07/03/2023)

In recent years, struggles for justice, peace, and democracy around the world have been articulated through protests. Whether in Nigeria, Senegal or Tunisia, this form of political participation challenges the status quo. Rising forms of autocratic rule, democratic backsliding, and right-wing populism underscore the urgency of protesters’ demands.

Equity for Women in Science. Dismantling Systemic Barriers to Advancement (05/03/2023)

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?

Retrospective Annuelle 2022 (27/02/2023)

En 2022 ces données et analyses ont été utilisés par diverses parties prenantes en Afrique et dans le monde. De nouvelles pistes notables qui se sont intéressées à nos données comprenaient des événements régionaux et mondiaux tels que la Charte Africaine de la Démocratie, des Elections et de la Gouvernance, la COP27, la 77e Assemblée Générale des Nations Unies, le Forum de la démocratie de la Fondation Obama et le Sommet des Dirigeants États-Unis-Afrique.

No time like the present to fight corruption: Innovative practice for a wicked development problem (28/02/2023)

Corruption seriously undermines development and hits the most vulnerable hardest. But it is a multifaceted, wicked problem. This paper reviews new evidence on how anti-corruption can be conducted, how the EU has been performing in this area and what should be done next to improve Europe’s overall footprint.

The Governance Shock Doctrine: Civic Space in the Pandemic (06/03/2023)

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.

Ad hoc coalitions in global governance: short-notice, task- and time-specific cooperation (08/03/2023)

Ad hoc coalitions (AHCs) are an indispensable but scantly conceptualized part of global governance. In recent years, several typologies and classifications of global governance arrangements have been provided, mostly differentiating them based on their organizational design features of degree of formality and membership composition.

The Catholic church and regional governance in west Africa (08/03/2023)

‘Catholic regionalism’ in west Africa exemplifies the capacity of theological claims and theologically informed actors to influence regional governance and international affairs.

Politique et bien commun en Afrique noire. Le cas centrafricain (22/02/2023)

Les nombreuses crises politiques, sécuritaires et économiques en Afrique, notamment en Centrafrique, sont assurément liées à la mauvaise gestion du bien commun: tel est le point de départ de cet ouvrage. La question du bien commun y est pensée comme le chemin d'un vivre ensemble pacifique et d'une cohésion sociale, face aux politiques africaines gangrénées par le tribalisme, le népotisme et la corruption.

Weekly epidemiological update on COVID-19 – Edition 133 (03/01/2023)

Globally, nearly 4.5 million new cases and 32 000 deaths were reported in the last 28 days (6 February to 5 March 2023), a decrease of 58% and 65%, respectively, compared to the previous 28 days. As of 5 March 2023, over 759 million confirmed cases and over 6.8 million deaths have been reported globally.

The Next Pandemic: If We Can’t Respond, We’re Not Prepared (08/03/2023)

Amidst the disastrous impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, international policy attention on global pandemic prevention, preparedness and response (PPR) has been laudable but has so far proved inadequate.

Inter-Agency Humanitarian Evaluation of the COVID-19 Humanitarian Response (09/03/2023)

The subject of this evaluation is the collective preparedness and humanitarian response at the global, regional, and country levels to meet the humanitarian needs of people in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The evaluation is global and includes case studies from Bangladesh, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Philippines, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Syria, and Turkey.

Inequality in Access to Essential Health and Medicine: COVID19 Vaccines (09/03/2023)

One and a half years after the virus struck, high-income countries have deals securing enough doses to vaccinate their populations twice over, while in many low-income countries fewer than one in 100 people had received a single dose of vaccine.

What Works in HIV Prevention? Promising Practices from East and Southern Africa (10/03/2023)

There is no time to lose if the region is to meet the 2025 targets for HIV prevention. With this goal, UNFPA has collected examples of successful interventions for HIV prevention in Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia and Uganda.

Reimagining Global Health Financing: How Refocusing Health Aid at the Margin Could Strengthen Health Systems and Futureproof Aid Financial Flows (01/03/2023)

Health aid has helped domestic financing achieve historic gains in global health but there is much still to be done. Six major issues currently prevent aid from being more effective, fit for the future, and aligned with country priorities.

Trends in maternal mortality 2000 to 2020 (28/02/2023)

Every day in 2020, approximately 800 women died from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth - meaning that a woman dies around every two minutes. This report presents internationally comparable global, regional and country-level estimates and trends for maternal mortality between 2000 and 2020.

(Im)penser l'urbain au Cameroun (20/02/2023)

Le monde urbain constitue un lieu de rencontre de temporalités plurielles et des multiples arts de faire où se trament les enjeux du futur. Cet ouvrage se démarque des grilles habituellement utilisées pour révéler l'objet urbain. Les contributions des auteurs s'alimentent des réalités sociales engendrées dans les bas-fonds, les bidonvilles, l'informel, le formel et les bruits du monde urbain.

Future Proofing Africa–China Infrastructure Cooperation (28/02/2023)

This policy briefing provides a brief multi-sector comparison between African and Southeast Asian experiences of environmental, socioeconomic and governance (ESG) implementation in Chinese-led infrastructure projects.

Policy considerations for sustainable transportation in three Caribbean small island developing States: options for improving land transportation efficiency. Barbados, the British Virgin Islands and Jamaica (05/03/2023)

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.

Changing the Demand Preference for Electric Vehicles in Ho Chi Minh City: Costs and Benefits From Incentives in the Early Stages of Adoption (08/03/2023)

This paper evaluates potential costs of implementing financial incentives for electric vehicles; specifically purchase subsidies and registration rebates offered in Ho Chi Minh City and the benefits related to individual savings and GHG emissions reductions.

Urban economic growth in Africa: A case study of Nairobi City County, Kenya (10/03/2023)

While Africa has the highest rate of urbanization in the world, the region’s cities are not realizing the full potential and benefits of agglomeration. Sub-Saharan Africa is failing to reap the economic benefits of urbanization observed in other regions.

Léopoldville Kinshasa. Miroir de l'urbanisation de subsistance (06/03/2023)

Léopoldville-Kinshasa a connu un départ précipité, une croissance numérique forcée, jointe à un étalement latéral que ne contrarie aucune considération topographique. Cela a créé une agglomération aux dimensions indéfinies.

Movimientos migratorios recientes en América del Sur (22/02/2023)

Esta edición recoge datos migratorios oficiales de 2021, actualizados de manera comparativa sobre los principales patrones de movilidad humana en la región, que resultan relevantes para la evaluación y adecuado seguimiento de la configuración de las tendencias históricas, contrastadas por el contexto de la pandemia del COVID-19.

Perfil migratorio de Colombia 2021 (22/02/2023)

Sumados a la población de más de 48 millones de habitantes en Colombia, los migrantes alcanzan hasta 1,9 millones con una migración neta de 1 millón de migrantes, aproximadamente, o una tasa de migración neta de 4,2.

‘That’s When the Nightmare Started: UK and US Forced Displacement of the Chagossians and Ongoing Colonial Crimes (24/02/2023)

The present report report documents the treatment of the Chagossians, an Indigenous people whom the UK and US forced from their homes in the 1960s and 1970s so that a US military base could be built on Diego Galán, in the Chagos Archipelago.

Migration, Integration, and Diaspora Engagement in the Caribbean: A Policy Review (12/03/2023)

Migration has long been part of Caribbean nations reality. In recent decades, climate change, natural disasters, and shifts in global mobility patterns have reshaped the migration landscape in the Caribbean.

I Feel No Peace. Rohingya Fleeing Over Seas and Rivers (07/03/2023)

Rohingya men, women and children have been fleeing their homes for forty years. The tipping point came in August 2017, when almost 700,000 were wrung from Myanmar in a single military operation. Today, very few members of this Muslim minority remain in the country. Instead, they live mostly in Bangladesh’s refugee camps; or precariously in Malaysia, India, Thailand, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere.

The European Green Deal and the African Private Sector (07/03/2023)

The paper then showcases opportunities the European Green Deal offers the African private sector and how available finance and support for technology development and transfer and capacity-building can be utilized in this regard.

Promoting Women Entrepreneurs as Driver of Business Integrity: A Practical Approach (09/03/2023)

The paper explores various points of intersection between gender equality and anti-corruption to promote a new narrative on the role women entrepreneurs and women-led businesses can play in fostering fair business practices.

Competition and Firm Recovery Post-COVID-19 (08/03/2023)

This paper examines the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the reallocation of economic activity across firms, and whether this reallocation depends on the competition environment.

Entrepreneurship for all? The rise of a global “entrepreneurship for development” agenda, 1950–2021 (12/03/2023)

This article provides a macro-sociological analysis of the rise and transformation of entrepreneurship as an ideology in international development discourse over time.

Markets of Tomorrow Report 2023: Turning Technologies into New Sources of Global Growth (15/02/2023)

The advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution has led to wide-ranging opportunities from advanced technologies for business and government. A proactive approach and greater strategic planning are now required in order to create the “markets of tomorrow” that meet key societal needs.

Building a digital single market: From the EU to Africa (21/02/2023)

The EU has developed interoperable digital public infrastructure as part of its digital single market, ensuring smooth cross-border interactions by individuals, businesses and governments. This brief argues that the EU could offer useful support on interoperable digital public infrastructure to Africa, which aspires to build its own digital single market as part of the African Continental Free Trade Area.

How best to ensure international digital competition cooperation (28/02/2023)

International cooperation on digital markets must ensure competition cases and laws around the world are consistent.

Anticipating Risks and Uncertainties for Asia and the Pacific: A Hybrid Horizon Scanning Report (09/03/2023)

The Asia-Pacific region is fast growing and fast adapting. The nexus of geopolitical, economic, natural, and biological risks has heightened uncertainty across the region.

Accelerating Innovation and Digitalization in Asia to Boost Productivity (12/03/2023)

Asia has risen to become an innovation powerhouse, contributing to more than half of world patents. The rise of Asia as an innovation hub has been driven by a few frontier countries that have experienced a sharp increase in digital and computer-related patents, supported by solid R&D spending and a large share of researchers in the labor force.

Drones in Construction: Unpacking the Value that Drone Technologies Bring to the Construction Sector Across Latin America (12/03/2023)

The use of drone technology in capital projects is an emerging area that holds promise for growth. Drones are becoming more widely available, and regulatory bodies are gradually allowing their use on a larger scale.

The African Union at 20: African perspectives on progress, challenges and prospects (21/02/2023)

This book brings together diverse African experts to critically and independently assess the AU’s performance over the last two decades and proposes ways in which the organisation can serve the African people better. It contributes to the growing body of literature on the AU and African integration.

Eight Priorities for the African Union in 2023 (14/02/2023)

This briefing sets out eight priorities the AU should focus on in 2023: reforming its own institutions; nurturing agreements in Ethiopia and Sudan; urging regional cooperation around the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam; easing tensions in the Great Lakes and Central Africa; and steering talks to unlock Libya’s stalemated transition.

AfCFTA: A New Era for Global Business and Investment in Africa (15/02/2023)

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), established in 2018, will create the world’s largest free trade area, bringing transformative change and tremendous opportunity to African economies and business environments.

Trade Facilitation, Infrastructure, and International Trade in Central Asian Countries (12/03/2023)

This working paper analyzes the impact of infrastructure and trade facilitation on imports and exports in five Central Asian countries and outlines how improving hard and soft infrastructure would help boost regional trade and integration.

Estimaciones de las tendencias comerciales América Latina y el Caribe - Edición 2023 (12/03/2023)

En 2022 el valor de las exportaciones de América Latina y el Caribe creció 18,8%, luego de aumentar 27,8% en 2021. El incremento en los precios de exportación sostuvo el desempeño de las ventas externas y los volúmenes se desaceleraron.

Systems approach to water management (21/02/2023)

The fundamental role that water resources play in human development has been highlighted in multiple ways. Out of 169 SDG targets, 59 were found to have direct links and synergies with the water goal SDG6.

Djibouti: impact of drought (11/03/2023)

A combination of extremely low rainfall levels and rising seasonal temperatures during the past three years has made Djibouti one of the most arid countries in the world.

Déchets et hygiène en République démocratique du Congo (12/03/2023)

Ce livre montre à quel point la mauvaise gestion de déchets se traduit par une hygiène défectueuse de l'espace environnant, offrant des conditions bioécologiques favorables au déploiement des germes pathogènes responsables de maladies qui sévissent dans nos milieux et transformant la République démocratique du Congo en un espace épidémiogène.

AUDA-NEPAD 2022 Annual Report (15/02/2023)

The COVID-19 pandemic has set Africa’s economic convergence with the world economy back. Africa’s economic growth was projected to decelerate to 4.1% in 2022 and 2023, 8 percentage points lower than the growth rate for the rest of the world.

Could Innovation and Productivity Drive Growth in African Countries? Lessons from Korea (08/03/2023)

The Korean model of development that flowered in the final third of the twentieth century remains a fertile source of lessons for countries in sub-Saharan Africa attempting to achieve sustainably high rates of growth.

The Horn of Africa. State Formation and Decay (07/03/2023)

Why is the Horn such a distinctive part of Africa? This book, by one of the foremost scholars of the region, traces this question through its exceptional history and also probes the wildly divergent fates of the Horn’s contemporary nation-states, despite the striking regional particularity inherited from the colonial past.

Mali : éviter le piège de l’isolement (14/02/2023)

Les autorités maliennes ont opéré un revirement stratégique en s’éloignant de la France et en faisant de la Russie leur principal allié militaire. Les relations entre le Mali et certains partenaires occidentaux et régionaux se détériorent. Les autorités maliennes et leurs partenaires devraient chercher à rétablir des relations plus équilibrées.

Malaysia Economic Monitor: Expanding Malaysia’s Digital Frontier (08/03/2023)

Malaysia’s growth during the quarter was the highest relative to other regional countries. Like its regional peers, the Malaysian economy bucked the global trend and recorded a strong growth in Q3 2022.

A Silent Sangha? Buddhist Monks in Post-coup Myanmar (10/03/2023)

The Sangha, Myanmar’s Buddhist monastic community, has largely stayed out of politics since the 2021 coup. As youth take the vanguard of resistance, a long-term shift in the country’s civic life – and a conservative backlash – could be in the offing.

Afghanistan: Continued risk of forced eviction due to complex land rights and tenure (in)security (28/02/2023)

Since the Taliban’s return to power in August 2021, there have been reports of forced eviction resulting in displacement in ten provinces of Afghanistan.

Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History (05/03/2023)

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.

The Decline and Fall of Republican Afghanistan (28/02/2023)

The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in 2021 was the result of declining active support for the government, and of waste and inefficiency in aid delivery. Yet, while corrosive, these problems were not in themselves sufficient to have brought about a collapse. To a significant degree, they were the result of early failings in institutional design, reflecting an American inclination to pursue short-term policy approaches that created perverse incentives⁠—thus interfering with the long-term objective of stability.

Anuario Estadístico de América Latina y el Caribe 2022 = Statistical Yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean 2022 (01/03/2023)

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.

Latin America’s Hard-to-Escape Stagnation Trap (08/03/2023)

Recent forecasts for economic growth around the world place Latin America as the developing region with the lowest growth rate, a dubious distinction it has earned in six of the last ten years.

Poverty Mapping in El Salvador (08/03/2023)

Poverty mapping, the spatial representation and analysis of human wellbeing and poverty indicators is becoming an increasingly important instrument for investigating and discussing socioeconomic issues, informing targeting efforts, and guiding the geographic allocation of resources

Lessons from Ukraine (27/02/2023)

At the one-year anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Ukrainians have proved astonishingly brave and resilient in the face of an assault of a scale and brutality not seen in Europe since 1945.

Ukraine - Looking ahead to 2023: outlook and risk analysis (27/02/2023)

This report aims to identify the most important contextual developments in Ukraine and provide an anticipatory level of analysis. It includes an outlook into how the current dynamics can develop and on potential risks that could further deteriorate the situation of the affected population.

EU responses to the large-scale refugee displacement from Ukraine (07/03/2023)

This book examines the European Union’s policy responses to large-scale displacement of refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine and the activation and implementation of the Temporary Protection Directive from interdisciplinary perspectives.

Ukraine: impact of conflict on the economy and implications for humanitarian needs (16/02/2023)

The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has had multiple negative impacts on Ukraine, including damage and destruction to productive assets and critical infrastructure, the displacement of staff and business owners, supply chain disruptions, and disruptions to the banking system in non-government-controlled areas.

From Buffer to Frontier: Ukraine and the EU (16/02/2023)

In June 2022, the European Union granted candidate status to Ukraine. A strong political statement, which was welcomed as such in Kyiv. But for a country at war, symbols do not suffice.

Lives on Hold: Intentions and Perspectives of Refugees from Ukraine (10/03/2023)

This report presents updated findings regarding intentions of refugees from Ukraine across Europe, in-depth analysis of the factors and drivers behind their decisions, and key insights into enabling factors of refugees’ intentions, with the goal of informing advocacy, programming and decision-making of all stakeholders.

Annus Horribilis: Russia’s War, Ukraine’s Struggle, Europe’s Future (27/02/2023)

One year on from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Europe continues to support Kyiv with military equipment and financial and political support. The bravery of Ukrainians is unparalleled, but, to truly support Ukraine, Europe needs to answer serious questions about its defence.

Nuclear Signalling in Russia’s War Against Ukraine (22/02/2023)

There is enough data to determine that Russia employed a three-fold nuclear signalling approach of deterring foreign military intervention, dissuading or at least delaying foreign aid to Ukraine and intimidating the government in Kyiv.

Captivated by war: The Russian People in the face of the Ukraine War, Mobilization, and Tactical Defeat (27/02/2023)

Despite the illegality, absurdity, and criminal nature of his endeavour, Putin has shown not to accept defeat in Ukraine. On the contrary, since the winter of 2022, he has been preparing a spring offensive. The dimensions of these preparations, including hundreds of thousands of newly mobilized soldiers, are huge, which suggests that an offensive rivalling the February 2022 invasion is in the making.

Broken Dream: The oligarch, Russia, and Georgia’s drift from Europe (21/02/2023)

It is still possible for the EU to work with Georgia. But the bloc should condition the financial and political support it provides – starting with the 12 points that Brussels designated in June 2022.

Belarusians’ media consumption and attitude towards reforms (03/03/2023)

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.

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Profiles of earthquake-affected areas in Turkey and Syria (14/02/2023)

As at 12 February the death toll in Türkiye and Syria was more than 28,000, which is expected to continue to rise with the ongoing search and rescue efforts. The affected population needs shelter, warm winter clothes, food, heating, blankets. Medical needs are also substantial, along with the damage to critical health infrastructure and lack of medical supplies.

Canada’s Indo-Pacific Strategy (28/02/2023)

The Indo-Pacific region will play a critical role in shaping Canada’s future over the next half-century. Encompassing 40 economies, over four billion people and $47.19 trillion in economic activity, it is the world’s fastest growing-region and home to six of Canada’s top 13 trading partners.

Temperatures rising: The struggle for bases and access in the Pacific Islands (01/03/2023)

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.

From aid to inclusion: A better way to help Syrian refugees in Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan (21/02/2023)

Nearly 12 years since Syria’s civil war began, the eyes of the world have shifted away from the country. No political solution is in sight. But while the European Union and its member states have turned their attention to other problems, there is no such luxury for Syrian refugees and the countries to which they have fled.

Sunny side up: Maximising the European Green Deal’s potential for North Africa and Europe (21/02/2023)

North African states hold great potential to become important partners in Europe’s energy transition in the medium and long term. The EU and its member states can make stronger use of the European Green Deal to direct investment in North Africa in support of clean energy.

Development Co-operation Report 2023. Debating the Aid System (12/03/2023)

The goal of a better world for all seems harder to reach, with new budgetary pressures, demands to provide regional and global public goods, elevated humanitarian needs, and increasingly complex political settings.

EU policies and the Majority World (21/02/2023)

The paper gathered the views of sustainable development experts in the global South and North about the key research priorities for understanding the global impacts of European policy and practice. It sets out the aims and methodology of the horizon-scanning project, presents the findings and indicates the next steps.

“All This Terror Because of a Photo” (24/02/2023)

State actors and private individuals across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have entrapped lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people on social media and dating applications, subjected them to online extortion, online harassment, and outing, and relied on illegitimately obtained digital photos, chats, and similar information in prosecutions, in violation of the right to privacy, due process, and other human rights.

Scenarios for Future Global Growth to 2050 (08/03/2023)

This paper develops scenarios for the shape of the global economy in 2050 building on a simple regression of the historic relationship between current income and lagged income, demographic features, climate, and education, using the coefficients to develop a “central” forecast and error terms to set high and low bounds on country outcomes.

Containing Transnational Jihadists in Syria’s North West (09/03/2023)

The rebels who control north-western Syria are dealing harshly with ISIS cells but have not yet crushed them entirely. The best way to stop jihadists from rebounding is to consolidate the area’s ceasefire. Outside powers can also help by sending more humanitarian aid.

Getting global development back on track: focus and start at home (07/03/2023)

Since 2019, realisation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has gone from patchy to off-track as a result of Covid-19, global price shocks caused by the war in Ukraine and accelerating climate change.

Nation-destroying, emigration and Iraqi nationhood after the 2003 intervention (08/03/2023)

While emigration and population displacements have long been a feature of Iraqi history, this article argues that the 2003 Anglo-American intervention in Iraq and its legacy has contributed to the gradual disappearance of many non-Muslim Iraqi minorities from Iraq.

The Iraq War 20 years on: towards a new regional architecture (08/03/2023)

The consequences of the Iraq War of 2003 continue to reverberate throughout the Middle East and wider world in multiple, if still underacknowledged, ways.

Syrian Requiem: The Civil War and Its Aftermath (05/03/2023)

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:

Pays émergents et en développement: l'étau se resserre (10/03/2023)

Couplés aux fluctuations des cours des matières premières agricoles et de l’énergie, ainsi qu'aux soubresauts de l’économie chinoise ralentie par la politique du « zéro Covid » et par les fragilités de son secteur immobilier, l’inflation et le resserrement monétaire ont profondément changé les paradigmes de l’économie mondiale au cours de l’année 2022.

L'analyse développement durable au service des ODD (10/03/2023)

L’analyse développement durable est aujourd’hui un outil essentiel pour garantir l’alignement des opérations du groupe avec les Objectifs de développement durable (ODD) établis par les Nations unies.

United Nations Secretary-General’s SDG Stimulus to Deliver Agenda 2030 (09/03/2023)

The global economy is facing multiple shocks that are threatening to further reverse progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Emerging Actors in the Multilateral System (27/02/2023)

This note looks at the development finance provided to multilateral institutions by a group of 13 major economies that have become significant international actors over the past decade. This group—which includes the five BRICS countries—are outside of the mainly Western, high-income countries that absorb the focus of attention for most development activity.

A World in Crisis, a World in Progress: Growing Better Together (12/03/2023)

Think20 (T20), the official think tank engagement group of the Group of Twenty (G20), was established in 2012 to provide research-based policy recommendations to help G20 countries and partners promote economic resilience and sustainable development. This report explores T20’s work and increasing importance.

Locating the unintended consequences of interventions: a tool for analysing impact inequality in development programming (07/03/2023)

Contributions exploring the unintended impacts of development programming have become increasingly prominent in the literature, as the accepted interdependence between the impacts of climate change, on the one hand, and questions relating to sustainable development, on the other, has become a mainstream topic among policymakers and researchers.

Le pastoralisme en péril en Afrique (21/02/2023)

La plupart des écosystèmes arides et semi-arides d’Afrique sont dédiés à différents types d’élevage extensif. Ces systèmes sont des acteurs majeurs dans la valorisation des espaces, et des ressources naturelles. En plus de nourrir les humains et les animaux, l’élevage pastoral fournit un revenu de subsistance à des populations qui ne pourraient survivre autrement dans ces régions. Ce pastoralisme est menacé depuis plusieurs années.

Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations' Rome-based Agencies working together to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (27/02/2023)

Achieving a Zero Hunger world (SDG 2) is at the heart of the mandates of the three Rome-based UN agencies: FAO, IFAD and WFP. The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, adopted by 149 Member States in 2007, provides the framework for the agencies’ work with Indigenous Peoples.

Acción climática en la agricultura: la experiencia de países miembros de la Plataforma de Acción Climática en Agricultura de Latinoamérica y el Caribe (05/03/2023)

El presente documento tiene por objetivo generar conocimientos relevantes para la acción climática en la agricultura en países miembros de la Plataforma de Acción Climática en Agricultura de Latinoamérica y el Caribe (PLACA), a partir de la revisión de la normativa políticas e institucionalidad, y del análisis de casos de éxito.

Food Security Update (06/03/2023)

Since the last update on February 9, 2023, the agricultural and export price indices have risen 1%; the cereal price index closed at the same level. Domestic food price inflation continues to remain high in almost all countries

Climate change as a global amplifier of human–wildlife conflict (11/03/2023)

Human–wildlife conflict—broadly defined as direct, non-extractive interactions between humans and wildlife with adverse outcomes for one or both parties—is one such phenomenon amplified by climate change. Human–wildlife conflict takes many forms, including direct injury to people and wildlife and damage to personal property or livelihood losses and has dire consequences for social–ecological systems.

Unexpected exposure of Andean condors (Vultur gryphus) to pharmaceutical mixtures (11/03/2023)

Potential exposure of the Andean Condor (Vultur gryphus) to pharmaceuticals is of high conservation interest, as these compounds can produce catastrophic consequences for populations of avian scavengers.

Reducing natural vegetation loss in Amazonia critically depends on the formal recognition of indigenous lands (11/03/2023)

The Brazilian Amazon contains the world's largest tract of tropical forest, about 22 % of which is within demarcated indigenous territories. Formal governmental recognition of these traditional territories is often a critical deterrent to deforestation, but the relative conservation performance of Indigenous Lands (ILs) under different legal categories and geographic contexts remains poorly understood.

Coastal Habitat Conservation. New Perspectives and Sustainable Development of Biodiversity in the Anthropocene (11/03/2023)

This book synthesizes the background of foundational conservation views and provides new perspectives and recent strategies within a sustainable development context for coastal species and organic life. Written by a team of international authors with expertise in wide-ranging issues of biodiversity conservation, it analyzes the challenges of conserving marine habitats and species that humanity faces in the Anthropocene era.

Plant Biodiversity Conservation in Ethiopia : A Shift to Small Conservation Reserves. (11/03/2023)

This book covers biodiversity conservation under special consideration of the challenges in the Global South with particular attention being paid to consider the existing conservation challenges in relation to the study area in Ethiopia. Key issues are addressed, such as the current and future threats to plant biodiversity in Ethiopia, as well as the single large or several small conservation approaches and which approach is feasible for Ethiopia.

Embedding Indigenous Knowledge in the Conservation and Restoration of Landscapes (15/02/2023)

Indigenous peoples’ and local community lands cover a third of the earth’s territories. The fact that 91% of them are in good or fair ecological condition today is a testament to the effectiveness of long-term Indigenous stewardship in managing complex natural environments.

Sociolinguistique et interculturalité en Colombie (16/02/2023)

Cet ouvrage aborde un certain nombre des problématiques concernant plus particulièrement le contexte colombien. Les chapitres proposés, rédigés par des chercheurs issus de différentes universités colombiennes et brésiliennes, donnent un aperçu de la situation concernant les politiques linguistiques, les idéologies, les variétés de l'espagnol, la situation des langues-cultures minoritaires.

Encyclopédie de la culture mancagne (22/02/2023)

Les hommes semblent anonymement éparpillés dans l'univers, de façon indifférente, ce qui crée une situation d'inconfort, puisque naturellement, l'homme supporte difficilement l'indétermination. Il est plus à l'aise quand il est particularisé et catégorisé. Il veut, à coup sûr, être identifié et associé à un groupe, à une famille et à une gent. Ce sont ce sentiment et cette aspiration que tentent d'exprimer les auteurs de cet ouvrage qui se réclament de la communauté mancagne, laquelle a ses origines, ses pratiques, sa vision du monde et son organisation propres.

La théologie africaine de l'interculturalité (06/03/2023)

Après 160 années d'évangélisation continue, plusieurs Églises d'Afrique ont l'obligation de jeter un regard rétrospectif sur le chemin parcouru tant sur le plan de la pensée théologique que sur le plan du vécu de la foi. La théologie africaine semble assez mûre pour développer une perspective interculturelle comme acheminement de l'inculturation.

Mitigating Risks of Violence in Nigeria’s 2023 Elections (21/02/2023)

The largest, most youthful electorate in Nigerian history will head to the polls soon to decide high-stakes presidential, parliamentary and state-level races. Numerous violent incidents have already marred the campaign. Authorities can take several steps to lessen the dangers before, during and after the vote.

Nigeria vor den Wahlen 2023 (15/02/2023)

Über 93 Millionen Nigerianer sind am 25. Februar aufgerufen, im bevölkerungsreichsten Land Afrikas einen neuen Präsidenten zu wählen. Der amtierende Präsident Muhammadu Buhari wird nach zwei Amtszeiten verfassungsgemäß die Macht übergeben. Von schicksalhaften und die Zukunft des Landes bestimmenden Wahlen ist in Nigeria die Rede.

Halting genocide in a post-liberal international order: intervention, institutions and norms (08/03/2023)

This article considers how states might respond to genocide in a more realist, post-liberal international order. It argues that even within an emergent realist international order that downgrades normative commitments to fundamental human rights, unchecked genocide will continue to pose a threat to international peace and security and states will be interested in halting it.

Les "coups d'État" en Afrique de 1960 à 2021. Typologie, causes, conséquences et pistes de sortie durable (06/03/2023)

Les récents coups d'État en Afrique ont réactualisé la question de la légitimité démocratique. Ce volume porte essentiellement la focale sur la typologie des coups d'État en Afrique postindépendance, leurs causes et conséquences, de même que sur les transformations sociologiques des États en situation de coup d'État.

World Report 2023 - Events of 2022 (24/02/2023)

This 33rd annual World Report summarizes human rights conditions in over 100 countries and territories worldwide in 2022. It reflects extensive investigative work that Human Rights Watch staff conducted during the year, often in close partnership with domestic human rights activists.

“This Is Why We Became Activists” Violence Against Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer Women and Non-Binary People (24/02/2023)

This 211-page report is a groundbreaking investigation into violence and discrimination to lesbian, bisexual, and queer women and non-binary people in 26 countries.

Advancing the Agenda in Girls' Education Research (27/02/2023)

Girls’ education remains a global priority for donors and many governments. National governments also highlight the importance of girls’ education. This resolve, by both donors and national governments—alongside great advances in knowledge about what works to get girls in school and learning—is starting to pay dividends.

The effects of a project and play-based early education program on medium term developmental trajectories of young children in a low-income setting (07/03/2023)

The evidence on the effectiveness of high-quality center-based programs for young children in developing countries is still scarce, where programs are typically of low quality and only short-term impacts have been assessed.

Collapse and Recovery: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Eroded Human Capital and What to Do about It (09/03/2023)

This report shows how the pandemic destroyed human capital at critical moments of the life cycle for an entire generation of young people in poorer countries. It is the first comprehensive review of global data for young people in low- and middle- income countries who were under the age of 25 during the pandemic.

Les ODD, un levier pour l'éducation (10/03/2023)

Ce guide construit sous forme de 27 questions-réponses permet à chacun, quel que soit son niveau d’expertise, de s’acculturer aux Objectifs de développement durable (ODD) et de s’interroger sur la mobilisation des ODD dans les pratiques pédagogiques.

Humanitarian Action for Children 2023 (12/03/2023)

This report sets out an ambitious agenda to address the major challenges facing children and young people living through conflict and crisis.

Inégalités en éducation dans le monde (12/03/2023)

Cet ouvrage étudie la question des inégalités en éducation en relation avec le développement durable. En quoi les inégalités, et particulièrement en éducation, doivent-elles être réduites pour permettre un véritable développement durable ?

L'enseignement privé au Mali. Atouts, problèmes et perspectives de régulation efficace (21/02/2023)

Le secteur de l'enseignement privé occupe aujourd hui une place prépondérante dans le processus d'offre de services éducatifs au Mali. Cette prédominance qu'il a sur le secteur public d'enseignement se justifie par la grande proportion de sa couverture éducative dans tous les ordres d'enseignement, à l'exception de celui de l'enseignement fondamental (1er et 2e cycle)

Panorama Laboral 2022 de América Latina y el Caribe (12/03/2023)

América Latina y el Caribe enfrenta en 2023 un mercado de trabajo “altamente complejo y cargado de incertidumbre” a causa de una conjunción de múltiples crisis que impactan los mercados de trabajo y hacen necesaria la aplicación de políticas para crear empleo formal.

Green jobs and the city: Towards a just transition in developing countries (15/02/2023)

This policy brief examines actions for a just transition of local job markets in developing countries. It identifies building blocks for shifting from carbon-intensive towards green jobs in this transition.

Negotiations by workers in the informal economy (12/03/2023)

This paper provides empirical evidence from Africa, Asia and the Americas on negotiations and collective bargaining by workers in the informal economy.

More than a billion reasons: The urgent need to build universal social protection for children (12/03/2023)

This joint ILO-Unicef report on social protection for children outlines the devastating impact of a lack of social protection on child poverty, health, education, nutrition, child marriage and child labour.

Personas con discapacidad e inclusión laboral en América Latina y el Caribe: Principales desafíos de los sistemas de protección social (12/03/2023)

En este documento se analizan los principales retos de los sistemas de protección social en América Latina y el Caribe en relación con la garantía de los derechos de las personas con discapacidad, con un especial enfoque en materia de inclusión laboral.

The impact of Covid-19 on South African migrant wage workers and the self-employed (12/03/2023)

When Covid-19 struck the South African government declared some of the strictest lockdowns worldwide. The impact of lockdowns on the working classes was especially severe.

Energy and climate challenges will continue in 2023 (06/03/2023)

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.

Accelerating Low-Carbon Pathways through E-Mobility: Perspectives from Developing Economies (12/03/2023)

This paper analyzes the uptake of electric vehicles in Asia and the Pacific and shows how the electrification of transport systems can speed up the transition to a low-carbon future.

How the U.S. Can Better Support Africa’s Energy Transition (15/02/2023)

The climate and energy policies of the United States and African countries should build on three shared interests—and address three strategic tensions.

Power play: How the US benefits if China greens the Global South (20/02/2023)

As the relationship between the United States and China deteriorates, the battle between the two powers for supremacy in low-carbon industries is leading the slide. From batteries to solar panels to rare-earth metals used in wind turbines, technologies that over the past decade have cratered in cost and surged in scale – thanks to innovation supported by both Washington and Beijing – are targets in yet another trans-Pacific trade fight.

Monitoring of Sustainable Development Goal 7 indicators in Latin American countries (05/03/2023)

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.

1.5°C – dead or alive? The risks to transformational change from reaching and breaching the Paris Agreement goal (21/02/2023)

The historical failure to sufficiently tackle the climate and ecological crisis could create consequences that challenge the ability of societies to tackle the root causes of this crisis.

The Big Push for Transformation through Climate and Development. (10/03/2023)

The report makes the case for a big investment push for emerging markets and developing economies’ sustainable recovery and development, assesses the magnitude and composition of such investment, presents actions needed for an energy transition, looks at the role that innovations and state capacity can play in facilitating green, resilient, and inclusive development, and proposes actions.

Keys to climate action: How developing countries could drive global success and local prosperity (10/03/2023)

A new narrative needs to capture the interwoven nature of the world’s climate and economic development challenges, anchored in the evolving and diverse perspectives of developing countries themselves.

Behavioral Science Interventions within the Development and Environmental Fields in Developing Countries: An Evidence Gap Map (27/02/2023)

This evidence gap map presents a landscape of studies on the effectiveness of behavioural science interventions in developing countries within the context of climate change.

An Ocean of Opportunities - How the Blue Economy Can Transform Sustainable Development in Small Islands Developing States (09/03/2023)

This action brief seeks to strengthen the knowledge base of the blue economy, challenge views on what it means, and clarify how Small Islands Developing States can benefit from it.

Climate change and conflict in the Central Sahel: A shared responsibility to support local resilience (07/03/2023)

In the Central Sahel, both the climate and security crises are acute. Strengthening the ability of local communities and actors to respond and adapt to shocks is pivotal and urgent.

Tanzania’s Post-COVID-19 Recovery Strategy and the NDC (28/02/2023)

In Tanzania, climate change has generally been tackled as a crosscutting issue in macro and sector policies, but the emergence of COVID-19 has created opportunities for a more mainstreamed approach.

The Great Green Wall in Senegal: Questioning the Idea of Acceleration Through the Conflicting Temporalities of Politics and Nature Among the Sahelian Populations (03/03/2023)

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.

Dix années d'afforestation mondiale (27/02/2023)

Cet ouvrage, qui se destine principalement aux gouvernants politiques, aux décideurs, aux acteurs institutionnels et aux leaders du monde entier, se veut constituer un apport substantiel à la lutte mondiale contre le dérèglement ou le réchauffement climatique, qui constituent une menace susceptible de priver l'humanité d'un avenir radieux.

Natural Resource-Based Development in Africa (02/03/2023)

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.

DFI Transparency Index 2023 (07/03/2023)

As global crises mount—from the social and economic fallout of COVID-19 to the deepening climate crisis, to food insecurity compounded by the Russian invasion of Ukraine—development finance institutions (DFI) are increasingly being called upon to address these issues.

Building blocks out of the crisis: The UN’s SDG Stimulus Plan (09/03/2023)

The UN’s SDG Stimulus Plan, which calls for additional liquidity, effective debt restructuring and the expansion of development financing, has the potential to free up significant fiscal space in developing economies.

European Financial Flows on SDG7 to Africa – 2022 Report (28/02/2023)

The annual European Financial Flows on SDG7 to Africa report continues an investigation into European and other financial flows to Africa, covering the period 2014-2020. It assesses the progress made towards achieving the SDG7 objective of providing access to cost-effective, dependable, sustainable, and modern energy for all.

Yes, MDB Shareholders Can Act Now: Six Very Feasible Near-Term Decisions (08/03/2023)

Spurred by the polycrisis and explicit calls from shareholders and other stakeholders, multilateral development banks (MDBs) are considering reforms that will give them the capacity to address country and global challenges, as US Secretary Yellen recently put it, “with the urgency and scale that is required

Unaccountable Accounting: The World Bank’s unreliable climate finance reporting (27/02/2023)

Despite being the largest multilateral provider of climate finance, the World Bank supplies very little evidence to support its claims about the amount of climate finance it provides.

International Aid Actions for Accountability: Identifying Interaction Effects Between Programmes (06/03/2023)

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.

Le contrôle citoyen des finances publiques en Afrique. Réflexion sur les cadres harmonisés de la CEMAC et de l'UEMOA (12/03/2023)

Cet ouvrage est une réflexion sur l'émergence d'une démocratie financière en Afrique subsaharienne francophone. En effet, les cadres harmonisés de gestion des finances publiques de la CEMAC et de l'UEMOA et spécifiquement les directives cadres portant codes de transparence et de bonne gouvernance dans la gestion des finances publiques font du citoyen un nouvel acteur à prendre en compte dans la nouvelle gouvernance financière.

Journey to extremism in Africa - Pathways to recruitment and disengagement (15/02/2023)

Informed by primary research with nearly 2,200 respondents – including more than 1,000 former members of violent extremist groups – this report is the most extensive study yet on what drives people to violent extremism. It investigates what drives people to the brink of recruitment, the 'tipping point’ - and ultimately, the 'turning point' that informs their decision to leave these groups behind.

EU’s Peacebuilding in The Horn of Africa: Its Strategy, Engagement, and Effectiveness in Somalia (21/02/2023)

This policy brief explores the EU’s role as a global peace and security actor and its peacebuilding mission in the Horn of Africa, particularly Somalia.

Overseas basing logistics at a crossroads in the Middle East, sub-Sahara Africa, and the western Indian Ocean (01/03/2023)

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.

Strategic competition for overseas basing in sub-Saharan Africa (01/03/2023)

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,

Military Relations Between Russia and Africa, Before and After The War in Ukraine (28/02/2023)

This paper examines and attempts to determine whether the war in Ukraine, launched by Russia in February 2022, will affect Russia-Africa relations, have no impact, or strengthen Russia-Africa ties.

International ordering and great power competition: Lessons from Central Asia (01/03/2023)

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.

Geostrategic competition for military basing in the Indian Ocean region (01/03/2023)

Military basing and access across the Indian Ocean region is an important object of strategic competition in the contemporary international security environment.

Proteger a los colombianos más vulnerables en el camino hacia la “paz total” (27/02/2023)

El nuevo gobierno colombiano busca frenar la violencia en zonas rurales controladas por grupos armados y criminales. Su enfoque – diálogo y reforma de seguridad – es admirable pero arriesgado. Cualquier acuerdo debe buscar eliminar todos los tipos de coacción que utilizan los grupos ilícitos.

European defence partnerships (03/03/2023)

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.

Environment of Peace: Security in a New Era of Risk (28/02/2023)

The environmental crisis is increasing risks to security and peace worldwide, notably in countries that are already fragile. Indicators of insecurity such as the number of conflicts, the number of hungry people and military expenditure are rising; so are indicators of environmental decline, climate change, biodiversity, pollution and other areas.

L'espace humanitaire, peau de chagrin dans le conflit au Sahel (06/03/2023)

Le monde s'interroge souvent sur la place que tiennent les travailleurs humanitaires dans le conflit sahélien qui sévit depuis plus de dix ans dans la région. Cet ouvrage étudie l'évolution du mandat des ONG et les attentes formulées à leur égard. Il explore les rapports transactionnels entre les travailleurs humanitaires et les autorités politiques, et met ainsi en lumière les compromis auxquels ces acteurs se résignent.

Women, Business and the Law 2023 (06/03/2023)

Policies empowering women strengthen the economy and are critical for lasting progress in development. Slowing global growth, the rising risks of climate change, conflict, and the lingering effects of COVID-19 have dealt a major setback to this progress in recent years—with disproportionate effects on the lives and livelihoods of women.

Gender equality in EU external action: Leadership from the EU headquarters (08/03/2023)

This brief analyses how the working groups of the Council of the EU and the EU’s gender and diversity ambassador are addressing gender equality in line with the EU’s latest gender action plan, as well as the women, peace and security agenda.

Taliban Restrictions on Women’s Rights Deepen Afghanistan’s Crisis (27/02/2023)

The Taliban have barred women from universities and many workplaces, compelling several aid organisations to pause operations in Afghanistan and donors to contemplate cuts to assistance. Yet the principled response remains to mitigate the harm these harsh rulings are doing to the most vulnerable Afghans.

Breaking Gender and Age Barriers amid Myanmar’s Spring Revolution (16/02/2023)

Young people, particularly young women, have been visible and important contributors to the anti-military resistance, challenging age and gender norms in patriarchal Myanmar society. Yet two years after the coup they remain largely excluded from formal political power, and their role in the opposition movement often goes unacknowledged.

Dimensions de Genre du Désengagement, de la Dissociation, de la Réintégration et de la Réconciliation : Le Niger (22/02/2023)

Prenant une approche de méthodes qualitatives à partir des données collectées lors d’entretiens avec des hommes et des femmes dans des communautés de la Région de Diffa au Niger et dans la capitale Niamey, cette enquête examine les dynamiques de genre autour du processus de DDRR dans le pays et présente des recommandations pour faciliter la transformation de genre.

The case of MUVA Assistentes: Moving Beyond Income Generation to a New Approach Towards Achieving Women’s Empowerment (06/03/2023)

This paper highlights the case of MUVA Assistentes, a public works programme that provided training and mentoring to young vulnerable women in urban Mozambique.

Can Digital G2P Payments Increase Financial Inclusion and Empower Women? Evidence from PESP in Bangladesh (01/03/2023)

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.

Europe-Africa relations in a multi-crisis world (30/01/2023)

This report addresses the state of Africa-Europe relations, almost one year after the 6th EU-AU Summit, providing a number of policy recommendations to African and European decision makers in four key areas of cooperation : climate change and fair energy transition; food security; peace, security and participatory governance; and development finance.

Global Risks Report 2023 (11/01/2023)

The next decade will be characterized by environmental and societal crises, driven by underlying geopolitical and economic trends. Cost-of-living crisis is ranked as the most severe global risk over the next two years, peaking in the short term. Biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse is viewed as one of the fastest deteriorating global risks over the next decade, and all six environmental risks feature in the top 10 risks over the next 10 years.

2022 Retrospective and Trends for 2023 (06/02/2023)

At the end of 2022, looking ahead to 2023, there are some surprising grounds for optimism, even though many of the risks pointed to have come to pass. These trends include how multilateralism played a surprisingly successful role in Ukraine, considering as that the Black Sea Grain Initiative and the UN resolutions that passed relating to the conflict, along with agreements during the G20 summit in Bali.

World Economic Situation and Prospects 2023 (09/02/2023)

Against the backdrop of COVID-19, world output growth is projected to decelerate from an estimated 3% in 2022 to 1.9% in 2023, marking one of the lowest growth rates in recent decades.

World Social Report 2023 (09/02/2023)

Population ageing is a defining global trend of our time. People are living longer, and more are older than ever before. This change brings both challenges and opportunities as countries strive to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Africa’s Infrastructure-Led Growth Experiment Is Faltering. It Is Time to Focus on Agriculture. (27/01/2023)

Instead of fixating on infrastructure, African countries should look to the experience of Latin American countries with similar resource endowments: a greater relative abundance of land than low-cost labor.

Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition in Latin America and the Caribbean 2022 (02/02/2023)

Despite progress made in the region, Latin America and the Caribbean face important challenges in eradicating hunger and malnutrition, with overweight and obesity of particular concern. High levels of inequality and high costs of a healthy diet worsen the problem.

Food Insecurity in Africa: Drivers and Solutions (30/01/2023)

This paper explores how climate change, violent conflict, the Covid-19 pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis combine to drive rapidly increasing levels of food insecurity. These drivers play out differently across and within regions and countries, and this paper focuses on how a combination of the drivers plays out on the African continent.

Financing Food Security: Promises and Pitfalls of the Humanitarian–Development–Peace Nexus in South Sudan (31/01/2023)

This study explores the potential for donor governments and institutions to support the operationalization of the humanitarian, development and peacebuilding (HDP) nexus to respond to the food insecurity crisis in South Sudan and the challenges it presents.

Somalia: drought and rising costs take hold (27/01/2023)

The economic, environmental, political and social contexts at the local, national and regional levels are continually evolving, and regional to global events such as the economic repercussions of Covid-19 are being felt at the local level. This brief aimes to capture how pastoralists, agropastoralists and farmers are coping with and adapting their livelihoods to this dynamism.

Chaînes globales de valeur tourmentées : Risques et opportunités pour l’agriculture et l’alimentation (06/02/2023)

La production agricole et alimentaire mondiale est bien insérée dans le commerce en valeur ajoutée internationale mais se protège par des normes sanitaires très strictes, des labels indispensables et des subventions publiques.

Impacts of climate change on global food trade networks (09/02/2023)

This paper investigates the long-term (2070–2099) potential impacts of climate change on global food trade networks of three key crops: wheat, rice and maize. The authors propose a simple network model to project how climate change impacts on crop yields may be translated into changes in trade.

Synthesis of the 6th national reports on biodiversity from Africa (07/02/2023)

For Africa, like the rest of the world, it is critical to adopt a framework with targets that will not only curb the loss of biodiversity but will enhance opportunities to improve the lives of many Africans especially depending on biodiversity for their survival, bearing in mind the biodiversity priorities identified by and for Africans.

Quantifying the illegal high-value rosewood trade and criminal trade networks in the Greater Mekong Region (09/02/2023)

Illegal trade network patterns may be explained by geographic, economic and environmental factors, and may change over time. Rosewood is one of the most valuable taxa in the illegal and unregulated wildlife trade, and we focus on its trade in the Greater Mekong Region.

Priority areas for promoting co-benefits between conservation and the traditional use of mammals and birds in the Chaco (09/02/2023)

The Gran Chaco, a global hotspot of deforestation and biodiversity loss, faces the dual challenge of expanding area-based conservation while helping to transition to more sustainable natural resource use in order to maintain traditional livelihoods.

Biodiversity Conservation Through Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS): Himalayas and Indian Sub-Continent (06/02/2023)

This book deals with the economic potentials of biodiversity and its capacity to support its own conservation aiming to provide livelihood for millions engaged in conservation, both now and for future generations. It highlights the potentials of natural resources which are characterized as capital wealth (as defined in Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)), to finance its own conservation and to provide livelihood means to people who conserve it.

UNESCO Guidance for the World Heritage ‘No-Go’ Commitment: Global standards for corporate sustainability (03/02/2023)

Around 140 UNESCO World Heritage sites in 80 countries over the last three decades have reported impacts from mining, oil and gas and large hydropower projects, among others. As humanity’s legacy to future generations, UNESCO calls on companies to protect World Heritage by refraining from undertaking or funding harmful industrial or other large-scale projects.

Support for the Asian Silk Roads World Heritage Serial and Transnational Nomination(s) (10/02/2023)

The UNESCO World Heritage Centre has coordinated the preparation of the serial transnational World Heritage nomination of the Silk Roads since 2003, in close cooperation with five Central Asian countries and China.

Beyond the fantastic. Crítica de arte contemporánea desde América Latina (12/01/2023)

Este libro reúne una selección de los nuevos discursos teóricos sobre las artes visuales en América Latina. Se trata del pensamiento crítico que caracteriza la década del 80 y prosigue hasta hoy. Constituye un corpus con rasgos propios, modificador de los paradigmas prevalecientes desde el arranque de los años 60, cuando se enfocaba al arte latinoamericano con una visión totalizadora, procurándole cierta unidad conceptual.

Cultural Heritage in International Economic Law (30/01/2023)

Can cultural heritage be adequately protected vis-à-vis economic globalization? This book investigates whether and how international economic law governs cultural phenomena by mapping the relevant legal framework, discussing the relevant disputes concerning cultural elements adjudicated before international economic ‘courts’ (namely the World Trade Organization adjudicative bodies and investment treaty arbitral tribunals), and proposing legal methods to reconcile cultural and economic interests.

What is the Right to a Healthy Environment? (03/02/2023)

This note, co-authored by UNDP, OHCHR, and UNEP, unpacks the elements and importance of the right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment and outlines how diverse stakeholders can play an active role in making the right a reality for all.

AI governance and human rights (06/02/2023)

This research paper aims to dispel myths about human rights; outline the principal importance of human rights for AI governance; and recommend actions that governments, organizations, companies and individuals can take to ensure that human rights are the foundation for AI governance in future.

The Human Right to Citizenship (06/02/2023)

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the right to citizenship in international and regional human rights law. It critically reflects on the limitations of state sovereignty in nationality matters and situates the right to citizenship within the existing human rights framework. It also identifies the scope and content of the right to citizenship by looking not only at statelessness, deprivation of citizenship or dual citizenship, but more broadly at acquisition, loss and enjoyment of citizenship in a migration context.

Les métamorphoses de la démocratie. De la genèse à l'heure actuelle (07/02/2023)

Avant la « parentocratie », concept d'actualité en Afrique, qui correspond au pouvoir de la parenté dans la sphère publique – au cœur des recherches à venir – l'auteur constate que la « démocratie », pouvoir du peuple, lui a précédé. Mais de quelle démocratie parle-t-on ? En effet, chaque peuple semble avoir une forme de démocratie qui lui est propre. La conception démocratique des Anciens diffère de celle des Modernes et cette dernière semble loin de celle des Contemporains.

SDG4 scorecard progress report on national benchmarks: focus on early childhood (06/02/2023)

Three in four countries have submitted benchmarks, or national targets, to be achieved by 2025 and 2030 for at least some of seven SDG 4 indicators: early childhood education attendance; out-of-school rates; completion rates; gender gaps in completion rates; minimum proficiency rates in reading and mathematics; trained teachers; and public education expenditure.

Pulse Check on Digital Learning (03/02/2023)

This report defines and takes the pulse of five vital elements of digital learning. It contributes to the ongoing yet urgent aim of transforming education, and offers steps to recovery through child-centered, equity-driven, and innovative solutions.

Assurer l'émergence de l’Afrique par sa jeunesse (12/01/2023)

Les ressources naturelles sont immenses en Afrique, cependant le meilleur atout qu'elle possède, c'est sa jeunesse. Dans ce livre, l'auteure aide les jeunes africains à comprendre qu'ils vivent une époque intéressante et qu'ils sont capables de participer à la transformation de leur société. La jeunesse africaine doit être fière de vivre à ce moment pour pouvoir être utile à leurs nations respectives et y déclencher des progrès majeurs. Et il n'y a rien qui puisse la freiner si elle est consciente de son pouvoir et déterminée à faire la différence dans l'histoire.

World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2023 (03/02/2023)

The report covers the extent and consequences of the labour market disruption caused by overlapping economic and geopolitical crises and analyzes global patterns, regional differences and outcomes across groups of workers.

Working Time and Work-Life Balance Around the World (03/02/2023)

The present report provides a comprehensive review of both main aspects of working time – working hours and working time arrangements (also called work schedules) – and their effects on workers' work-life balance.

Decent Work in Nature-based Solutions (03/02/2023)

Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are increasingly seen as a way to meet the objectives of several global agreements and can be central to a just transition – if the right mix of just transition policies are implemented. But there is currently no guarantee that NbS will generate decent work.

Seguridad Social e intervención pública en América Latina (06/02/2023)

El presente libro reflexiona sobre la dinámica de las medidas de protección social desarrolladas en los últimos años en América Latina. Dicha temática se presenta como un reto para la sociedad y abre un profundo debate sobre el modelo de Seguridad Social para la región. Los estudios que conforman esta monografía analizan temas específicos, teniendo en cuenta las importantes transformaciones que se están produciendo en las sociedades actuales desde el punto de vista de los modelos de protección social.

Scaling up African clean energy (26/01/2023)

This paper looks at possibilities for scaling up renewable energy deployment in African countries in the 2020s and 2030s – not just as a way to increase energy access, but as a clear and timely opportunity for African economies to benefit from the global green transition.

Le marché de l’hydrogène vert : l’équation industrielle de la transition énergétique (06/02/2023)

Le continent africain dispose de grands atouts grâce à la disponibilité de ressources renouvelables à des prix compétitifs et grâce à sa proximité du marché européen qui mise sur l’hydrogène pour remplacer les combustibles fossiles dans des secteurs difficiles à décarboner tels que les industries d’acier, chimique et de transport.

Achieving a Sustainable and Efficient Energy Transition in Indonesia: A Power Sector Restructuring Road Map (08/02/2023)

To assure financial and environmental sustainability for Indonesia's power sector, this report proposes restructuring PLN, the country's State Electricity Corporation, and details innovative reforms for stronger governance and regulation.

The governance of energy transitions in Africa: a sketch of plural perspectives (09/02/2023)

In Africa, the energy transition is interlinked with complex energy access challenges. It has emphasized the need to draw attention to the productive sector as an engine for change.

Financing renewable energy: policy insights from Brazil and Nigeria (09/02/2023)

Achieving climate targets will require a rapid transition to clean energy. However, renewable energy (RE) firms face financial, policy, and economic barriers to mobilizing sufficient investment in low-carbon technologies, especially in low- and middle-income countries.

El negocio de la transición energética en América Latina (10/02/2023)

Este libro aborda la transformación energética de los países como una necesidad imperiosa para mantener o aumentar la competitividad en los mercados internacionales y así generar valor agregado local e impactar el PIB. Una vez finalizada su lectura, el lector tendrá las herramientas que le permitirán hacer el análisis del mercado energético de cualquier país de América Latina o del mundo, y así identificar oportunidades de negocio relacionadas con la transformación energética.

10 New Insights on Climate Science 2022 (02/02/2023)

The authors of the report emphasize and unpack the complex interactions between climate change and other drivers of risk, such as conflicts, pandemics, food crises and underlying development challenges.

Economic Development in an Era of Climate Change (06/02/2023)

Climate change will radically alter how poor countries pursue economic development—with ramifications for national development strategies, the field of global development, and the shape of international security.

Climate Ambition: Snapshots for Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) (03/02/2023)

These two reports provide analysis for these groups of Climate Promise-supported countries surrounding their NDC status and implementation readiness.

The World Needs a Green Bank (07/02/2023)

There is a need for a new international institution that would be a repository for global knowledge on climate change, and would advise governments on climate policies, develop green projects across the Global South, mobilize financing for those projects, and support project implementation.

Climate change making life worse in Mauritius; citizens want collective action to combat it (30/01/2023)

The findings of this survey show that Mauritians who are aware of climate change are solidly behind government action to address the crisis, even if it comes at a significant economic cost.

Uganda’s post-COVID recovery strategy & NDC implementation (01/02/2023)

This paper analyses the climate friendliness of Uganda’s post-COVID-19 recovery strategy and, specifically, its alignment with the country’s targets in its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).

"Glocalizing" land-use and forest governance in the tropics: examining research partnerships and international forest policies affecting Brazil, DRC and Indonesia (08/02/2023)

This paper tackles both the framing and effectiveness of transnational initiatives affecting forest lands and peoples in the Global South, and the quality of relationships between institutions in the Global North and the Global South.

Tapping the potential of borrower-led multilateral development banks (27/01/2023)

About 30 multilateral development banks (MDBs) operate across the globe today. While the World Bank and major regional MDBs have a high profile, most MDBs are less well known. In light of the serious challenges facing the world and the limitations of other development agencies, it should be a priority to integrate these MDBs into the international agenda and strengthen their capacity.

The future of EU blended finance and guarantees: A assessment of cooperation strategies with least developed countries in Africa (07/02/2023)

The European Fund for Sustainable Development Plus (EFSD+) is a core element of EU development cooperation and reflects the EU’s strong commitment to deploying blended finance and guarantees as development financing tools. This paper examines the EU’s intentions concerning how the EFSD+ will be integrated into geographic programmes, focusing on the least developed countries in Africa.

Who Lends to Africa and How? Introducing the Africa Debt Database (01/02/2023)

Africa’s sovereign debt markets are not well understood, partly due to a lack of data. This paper introduces the Africa Debt Database (ADD), the most granular and comprehensive dataset on external borrowing by African governments thus far.

The response to debt distress in Africa and the role of China (31/01/2023)

Chinese lenders account for 12% of Africa’s private and public external debt, which increased more than fivefold to $696 billion from 2000 to 2020. China is a major creditor of many African nations, but its lending has fallen in recent years and is set to remain at lower levels.

Financial openness, financial fragility and policies for economic stability: a comparative analysis across regions of the developing world (08/02/2023)

This book presents a comparative analysis of the policy responses of developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean to the challenges that greater external financial openness and price and exchange-rate flexibility pose to economic stability.

Challenges and Changes: The Political Economy of National Development Banks in Africa (27/01/2023)

This synthesis report offers an examination of national development banks (NDBs) in Africa, drawing from case studies in four countries: Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire, Rwanda and Tunisia. It discusses their evolution in governance structures and operations, their financial and developmental performance, and the challenges they face within their operating environments.

International biodiversity finance: reframing payments for ecosystem services within a co-investment for sustainable development approach (30/01/2023)

Financing nature-positive development pathways in Southern countries is a central issue in the implementation of the Global Biodiversity Framework, and links to two streams: the need expressed by Southern countries to receive support for biodiversity protection through public finance from Northern countries; and the issue of aligning all financial flows with biodiversity objectives.

Conflicts to Watch in 2023 (31/01/2023)

The world took a dangerous turn in 2022. As if Taiwan and Ukraine were not enough to worry about, several disputes in other parts of the world also became more menacing in 2022, notably those involving Iran and North Korea.

Verifying Nuclear Disarmament: Lessons Learned in South Africa, Iraq and Libya (30/01/2023)

Inspections in the 1990s and early 2000s in South Africa, Iraq and Libya were designed to discover the details of nuclear weapon programmes and destroy any remnants. As the global norm against nuclear weapons strengthens, the international community may once more require verification of a state’s denuclearization

Containing Militancy in West Africa’s Park W (31/01/2023)

Insurgents have established bases in an important nature reserve spanning parts of Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger. They pose a growing danger to local ecosystems and people living around the park. The three countries need to collaborate more closely to keep the threat at bay.

Multi-Layered Violence in the DRC: Is History Repeating Itself? (02/02/2023)

Located in the heart of Africa, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is riddled in the East by the presence of rebel groups on its territory, from within but also neighboring countries, leading to armed clashes, human rights violations and internal displacements.

Golfe de Guinée : comment ne pas retomber dans les pièges du Sahel ? (02/02/2023)

Il y a un risque important que les erreurs qui ont nourri le jihadisme au Sahel soient reproduites par les pays côtiers comme par les Européens. La possibilité d’anticiper le phénomène oblige, au contraire, à une réponse ambitieuse et transversale, avec un focus important sur les fractures politiques, économiques et sociales susceptibles de représenter un terreau fertile de recrutement et d’implantation d’Al Qaïda ou de l’État Islamique.

Colombia Risk analysis update (06/02/2023)

In 2022, the armed conflict in Colombia worsened and led to increased levels of violence that affected at least 12 departments, most notably in the Pacific region and along the borders with Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. This risk report seeks to inform humanitarian decision makers and facilitate response planning. It provides an update on previous risks and the the identification of new risks.

Aftermath of War in Europe The West VS. the Global South? (26/01/2023)

This publication provides an insight into the lens through which countries of the Global South view the current period of successive crises, brought about by an ongoing global pandemic and a war in Europe.

L’Afrique de l'Ouest face à la menace djihadiste (07/02/2023)

Le présent ouvrage aborde la brûlante question du terrorisme en Afrique de l'Ouest. Préservée jusqu à un passé relativement récent des effets néfastes du jihad international, l'Afrique de l'Ouest se trouve à ce jour dans le viseur d Al-Qaida au Maghreb Islamique et de l État islamique.

Conflict Minerals, Inc.: War, Profit and White Saviourism in Eastern Congo (06/02/2023)

As a result of fervent activism and international campaigning, the flagship case of "conflict minerals" has captured global attention. This term groups together the artisanal tin, tantalum (coltan), tungsten and gold originating from war zones in Central Africa. Known as "digital minerals" for their use in high-end technology, their exploitation and trade has been singled out in numerous media and United Nations reports as a key driver of violence, provoking an unprecedented popular outcry and prompting transnational efforts to promote 'conflict-free', ethical mining.

Beyond Hunger: The gendered impacts of the global hunger crisis (30/01/2023)

Girls and women are at greater risk of gender-based violence as a result of global food shortages, according to this new report. Girls risk becoming “invisible” victims as a combination of the climate crisis, conflict in Ukraine and other countries, and economic shocks have left 50 million people worldwide on the brink of starvation.

Caring in times of COVID-19: A global study on the impact of the pandemic on care work and gender equality (08/02/2023)

This study brings together evidence from across the globe on how the pandemic has impacted women’s unpaid care work, as well as exploring measures implemented by governments and the degree to which these mainstream a gender perspective.

Las plataformas digitales de cuidados y sus servicios workertech en América Latina y el Caribe (08/02/2023)

El trabajo doméstico supone en promedio, alrededor del 11% del empleo de las mujeres en América Latina y el Caribe (ALC), siendo una de las fuentes de ingreso más importantes para las mujeres, sobre todo para las mujeres indígenas urbanas, afrodescendientes y migrantes, que están sobrerrepresentadas en el trabajo doméstico.

Mountain women of the world – Challenges, resilience and collective power (03/02/2023)

Women play a key role in environmental protection and social and economic development in mountain areas. They are often the primary managers of mountain resources, guardians of biodiversity and keepers of traditional knowledge. Empowering rural women is crucial to eradicating hunger and poverty.

Batswana see gender-based violence as a priority for government and societal action (27/01/2023)

Findings of this survey show that Batswana view gender-based violence (GBV) as the most important women’s-rights issue that the government and society must address, overwhelmingly reject the use of physical force to discipline women, consider domestic violence a criminal matter rather than a family affair, are confident that the police treat reported GBV cases seriously

Majority of Ugandans see domestic violence as a private – not criminal – matter (30/01/2023)

Survey findings show that gender-based violence ranks at the top of Ugandans’ priorities among women’s-rights issues that need government and societal attention. Most citizens reject a husband’s use of physical force to discipline his wife, but half report that violence against women and girls is a common occurrence in their community.

Adolescent Empowerment at Scale: Successes and challenges of an evidence-based approach to young women’s programming in Africa (07/02/2023)

In the spirit of learning, and in keeping with its commitment to gender equality and sexual and reproductive health and rights for adolescent girls, UNFPA supported this synthesis of lessons learned over the 15 years of implementing Empowerment and Livelihood for Adolescents programme, for the benefit of the wider development community.

Systematic mapping of gender equality and social inclusion in WASH interventions: knowledge clusters and gaps (09/02/2023)

Poor access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services threatens population health and contributes to gender and social inequalities, especially in low-resource settings.

Corruption Perception Index 2022 (03/02/2023)

The 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) shows that most countries are failing to stop corruption. The global average remains unchanged for over a decade at just 43 out of 100. Despite concerted efforts and hard-won gains by some, 155 countries have made no significant progress against corruption or have declined since 2012

Rethinking EU support to the rule of law: Taking a stand for sustainable development (07/02/2023)

This paper summarises the key findings and recommendations of a recent evaluation of the EU’s support to rule of law and anticorruption in partner countries between 2010 and 2021, which analysed what has and hasn’t worked and how the EU can improve its policies.

Les Gabonais déplorent la hausse du niveau de corruption mais craignent des représailles en cas de dénonciation (30/01/2023)

Une large majorité des Gabonais estiment que la corruption s’est accrue dans leur pays au cours des 12 derniers mois. Aux yeux des citoyens, les officiels de la Présidence, les policiers/gendarmes et les députés à l’Assemblée Nationale seraient trempés dans des affaires de corruption ainsi que des agents des services publics de l’éducation et de la santé.

Conflict, Governance and Organized Crime: Complex Challenges for UN Stabilization Operations (30/01/2023)

This report examines how organized crime is intertwined with armed conflict and hybrid governance systems in three states (Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Mali) that currently host United Nations stabilization missions.

Contesting global justice from the South: redistribution in the international order (02/02/2023)

This article shows a sharp North–South divide emerging when the South demands just and equitable solutions that are redistributive from North to South. As the North opposes redistribution, international lawyers and diplomats from the global South have devised legal strategies to circumvent opposition.

Parliament in Ethiopia: Participation, Representation and Resistance (10/02/2023)

African legislatures remain understudied, yet democratisation, development and peacebuilding all depend on these key political institutions. This book provides an in-depth analysis of Ethiopia’s parliament, a country of key political and strategic importance to the whole region.

Weekly epidemiological update on COVID-19 – Edition 129 (03/01/2023)

Globally, nearly 10.5 million new cases and over 90 000 deaths were reported in the last 28 days (9 January to 5 February 2023), a decrease of 89% and 8%, respectively, compared to the previous 28 days. As of 5 February 2023, over 754 million confirmed cases and over 6.8 million deaths have been reported globally.

The Future of Global Health Spending Amidst Multiple Crises (27/01/2023)

This paper summarizes the implications of the macroeconomic context and broader financing outlook for domestic and external health spending and proposes a “menu” of policy options to keep health spending on track and blunt negative impacts on health systems and population health around the world.

Global spending on health: Rising to the pandemic’s challenges (03/02/2023)

The results of the report clearly show that in 2020, a year dominated by the emergence of COVID-19 and its associated health and economic crises, governments around the world rose to the challenge. Sharp increases in government spending on health at all country income levels underpinned the rise in health spending to a new high of US $9 trillion (approximately 11% of global GDP)

COVAX: Structure and Principles (03/02/2023)

This document outlines the working structure and guiding principles for collaboration of COVAX, the Vaccines pillar of the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A). The working structure of COVAX continues to adapt to emerging needs and the changing trajectory of the pandemic.

Trafficking in medical products in the Sahel (02/02/2023)

In the Sahel countries and their neighbours, the high prevalence of infectious diseases, including malaria, coupled with challenges in terms of the availability and affordability of and access to healthcare, creates an environment in which the demand for medical products and services is not fully met through formal channels.

Nganga et savoir ancestral de guérison au Congo-Brazzaville (08/02/2023)

La santé est un bien suprême pour l'être humain. En effet, la santé n'est pas seulement physique mais aussi morale, spirituelle et environnementale. Elle englobe les relations horizontales et verticales de l'être humain. Dans toutes les sociétés et cultures, il y a des tradipraticiens ou tradithérapeutes, hommes et femmes qui prennent non seulement soin des corps malades mais aussi du bien-être des individus.

Mapping Environmental Risks and Socio-Economic Benefits of Planned Transport Infrastructure: A Global Picture (03/02/2023)

Using novel methods and metrics, the present report forecasts the impact that large-scale transport infrastructure projects currently underway or planned in 137 countries will have on wildlife populations, carbon storage and nitrogen retention, in comparison to the anticipated boosts to jobs and countries’ GDP.

Villes nouvelles, villes politiques - Diversification des acteurs et recentralisation du pouvoir étatique dans le cas de Diamniadio (06/02/2023)

La construction de villes nouvelles sur le continent africain est en vogue. Des pôles urbains multifonctionnels en passant par les écoquartiers, les images qui accompagnent l’annonce de ces projets promeuvent un futur urbain africain basé sur la modernité et la technologie.

Uniquely Urban: Case Studies in Innovative Urban Development (06/02/2023)

This report presents case studies that highlight how ADB's teams are working together to design innovative urban projects across the Asia and Pacific region that leverage its value-added services and support sustainable economic growth.

Urban Climate Action - The Urban Content of the NDCs: Global Review 2022 (09/02/2023)

Cities and urban leaders play a critical role to help ensure countries reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase climate resilience and enhance adaptive capacity to achieve the global 1.5⁰C target.

Infrastructure Financing Trends in Africa 2019-2020 (07/02/2023)

The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted infrastructure investment flows and, at the same time, highlighted the need for parallel action on social infrastructure. The reduction in infrastructure investment due to the pandemic has affected progress in reducing the annual financing gap for infrastructure in Africa.

Africa’s Railway Renaissance: The Role and Impact of China (10/02/2023)

This book investigates the history, political economy and spatiality of Chinese railway projects in Africa. It examines the financial governance of Sino-African railway projects, their socio-cultural, political and economic effects as well as the regional dimension of Africa’s new railway architecture and its function within China’s Belt and Road Initiative.

Migration Outlook 2023 (26/01/2023)

The world faces a number of crises that interact with increasing velocity and impact, a situation that is described as a state of “global polycrisis”. A new migration environment is shaped by the continued effects of long-term trends and drivers, increasing economic and demographic imbalances, climate change, growing geopolitical competition and the instrumentalisation of migration as a means of hybrid aggression.

Why safe, orderly and regular migration matters for sustainable development (03/02/2023)

Respecting, protecting and fulfilling the human rights of all migrants, regardless of their migration status, benefit migrants and countries alike. Addressing the adverse drivers and structural factors that hinder people from building and maintaining sustainable livelihoods in their own countries and communities can reduce the pressure to migrate.

Global Compact on Refugees - Indicator Framework 2022 (03/02/2023)

The Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) indicator framework is the backbone of the biennial GCR indicator report supporting assessment of progress towards the objectives of the Global Compact and its cross-cutting ambition to operationalize the principle of burden- and responsibility-sharing.

Refugee protection in the EU: Building resilience to geopolitical conflict (27/01/2023)

This report from MEDAM (Mercator Dialogue on Asylum and Migration in Europe) reviews European Union (EU) policy developments-both in response to recent geopolitical conflicts and with respect to the broader reform agenda for the EU asylum system.

Global Report on Trafficking in Persons (02/02/2023)

This report provides a snapshot of the trafficking patterns and flows detected during the COVID-19 pandemic. It covers 141 countries and provides an overview of the response to the trafficking in persons at global, regional and national levels, by analysing trafficking cases detected between 2018 and 2021.

Exploring systemic risk management as a contribution to the HDP nexus (27/01/2023)

There is growing interest in understanding and acting on the intersection of risks from disaster management, climate, peacebuilding and development perspectives. The humanitarian-development-peace (HDP) nexus seeks to galvanise action in light of persistently high humanitarian needs and overlapping crises across economic, environmental, human, political, security, and societal dimensions..

Rethinking Resettlement and Return in Nigeria’s North East (27/01/2023)

Authorities are keen to return or resettle the millions of people who fled homes in Borno state, the epicentre of fighting with Islamist militants in north-eastern Nigeria. But risks abound. The government should slow down its effort, focusing on protecting the displaced from further harm.

Cash Transfers and Migration: Theory and Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial (07/02/2023)

Will the fast expansion of cash-based programming in poor countries increase international migration? Theoretically, cash transfers may deter migration by increasing its opportunity cost or favor migration by relaxing liquidity, credit, and risk constraints. This paper evaluates the impact of a cash-for-work program on migration.

Public–Private Partnership Monitor: Kazakhstan (06/02/2023)

Exploring the public–private partnership (PPP) environment in Kazakhstan, this report assesses the country’s progress in creating better conditions for PPPs, to increase its infrastructure funding and improve service delivery.

Covid-19 Pandemic and SMEs' Performance in Latin America (08/02/2023)

This paper studies the economic performance of Latin American Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) during the pandemic using disaggregated and high-frequency administrative banking deposits and income data from Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Paraguay, and Peru.

Leaders and intrapreneurs: driving investment in frontier markets (27/01/2023)

This paper identifies how leaders have created the space for change and stresses the importance of intrapreneurs driving action.

Digital divide: Who in Africa is connected and who is not (30/01/2023)

Digital connectivity through information and communications technologies (ICTs) has been recognised as critical for every country’s future development and prosperity. And while access to ICTs is an objective in its own right, ICTs have cross-cutting effects and are important for the achievement of many of the other SDGs as well.

Digital Technologies in Migration (01/02/2023)

While digital technologies are a powerful tool that enable refugees to rebuild their lives in host societies, they can also harm them in less visible ways: datafication of refugees, surveillance or gig-work precarious conditions are a few examples.

Technology and Tax: Adoption and Impacts of E-services in Rwanda (03/02/2023)

Many low-income countries are increasingly digitising various tax services, usually motivated by efforts to increase efficiency and transparency and reduce the burden of compliance for taxpayers. However, where awareness and adoption are suboptimal, tax e services may produce only partial benefits.

Technology for world elimination of Neglected Tropical Diseases (01/02/2023)

Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) comprise 20 conditions that disproportionately affect 1 billion people in impoverished communities worldwide. Mobile health solutions have been used to aid and speed up diagnosis of NTDs. But despite notable advances in technology to support diagnosis, there is a gap in global diagnostics, specifically in quality, reliability, accuracy, and timeliness.

How to Measure the Digital Economy in 5G Technologies and Digital Silk Road Era (06/02/2023)

The current transformation of the society under the influence of digital technologies has no historical analogue in terms of its spread and the pace of development. The future will heavily depend on digital technologies.

Do information communication technologies (ICTs) support self-reliance among urban refugees? Evidence from Kuala Lumpur and Penang, Malaysia (07/02/2023)

This article focuses on whether and how refugees’ ICT use maps onto the policy concept of refugee self-reliance, focusing on the economic, educational, administrative, health, and security/protection domains of self-reliance in informal urban settings.

Global trade in 2023. What’s driving reglobalization? (03/02/2023)

Globalization is far from finished, but is changing in nature through countries’ emphasis on stronger regional links and the formation of economic blocs for sensitive and strategically important sectors. Full-scale decoupling from China is neither achievable nor desirable for the G7 and like-minded partners.

Thinking and working politically on African economic integration (27/01/2023)

Economic integration has been high on the African policy agenda since the early days of independence in the 1950s and 1960s, concretised in the Abuja Treaty of 1991. The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), launched in 2021, is the culmination of those early continental ambitions, and is cited as Africa’s response to the economic damage caused by COVID-19.

AU at 20: skillfully navigating international relations crucial for the AU (27/01/2023)

In a rapidly shifting global order and faced with increasing risks to Africa's peace and security, the African Union (AU) is compelled to strengthen its relationships with external partners. Refocusing its engagement with these organisations to meet continental peace and security priorities has been part of its institutional reform process started in 2016.

Trade Policy for Sustainable and Inclusive Agriculture (03/02/2023)

Trade policy provides a powerful set of levers for accelerating a transition to more inclusive and sustainable agricultural practices.

A Double Burden: The effects of food price increases and currency depreciations on food import bills (03/02/2023)

According to this report, the price of food has increased everywhere, reaching historic levels in 2022. This is a challenge for food security globally, but particularly for net food-importing developing countries. And unlike in previous food crises, they now face a double burden.

Free trade zones and illicit gold flows in Latin America and the Caribbean (06/02/2023)

Free trade zones are vulnerable to illicit trade; despite many governments and zone operators taking steps to mitigate these vulnerabilities, they remain especially acute in trading operations of specific goods. High-risk gold originating in Latin America and the Caribbean is often laundered within the region before advancing to destination markets.

On the effects of transfer pricing regulations: a developing country perspective (07/02/2023)

Multinational profit shifting by mis-pricing of intra-firm trade is a major concern for less developed countries (LDCs). This paper offers a first empirical assessment, drawing on data for more than 120 low and middle income countries for a 30-year-period.

Monnaie unique de la CEDEAO: Conditions d'un système de change efficace, harmonisé et stabilisé (08/02/2023)

Cet ouvrage est une contribution à la création de la monnaie unique de la CEDEAO. Il aborde les opportunités d'une intégration monétaire de la CEDEAO, clarifie la nature de ses potentiels avantages dans le contexte actuel de la mondialisation et de la globalisation, et par conséquent, fournit des pistes permettant d'accélérer le processus d'intégration monétaire.

The Geopolitics of Seawater Desalination (06/02/2023)

Water desalination is gradually emerging as the leading solution to cope with increasing water stress: i.e., the imbalance between water demand and quantities available. The United Nations estimates that by 2025, two-thirds of the world’s population will be affected by such challenges.

Sustainability assessment of urban and peri-urban sanitation systems relevant in the Bolivian context (09/02/2023)

This report presents a sustainability assessment method that can identify strengths and weaknesses of different sanitation systems across the sanitation service chain, in the context of Montero, Bolivia.

What the Future Has in Store: A New Paradigm for Water Storage (09/02/2023)

The present report is an urgent appeal to practitioners at every level, both public and private, and across sectors, to come together to champion integrated water storage solutions—natural, built, and hybrid—to meet a range of human, economic, and environmental needs for the 21st century.

Somalia. Impact of drought: Banadir and Bay regions (30/01/2023)

Somalia is currently facing the longest drought it has experienced in at least 40 years. Since late 2020, the country has registered five consecutive below-average rainy seasons. The next rainy season in 2023 is forecast to have below-average rainfall levels as well, worsening the crisis and increasing the number of people in need.

Ethiopia: impact of drought in Oromia and Somali regions (10/02/2023)

The duration and severity of the current drought in Ethiopia, which began in late 2020, has surpassed the droughts of 2010–2011 and 2016–2017, with the country facing a fifth failed rainy season. By September 2022, an estimated 24.1 million people were affected by the drought, up from 13.8 million people in August.

Governance towards coordination for water resources management: The effect of governance modes (07/02/2023)

Integrated Water Resource Management relies intensive coordination, vertically across different levels of government and horizontally across policy sectors, as many decisions affecting water resources are taken outside the water sector (e.g., in agriculture, industry).

Clean Water and Sanitation (06/02/2023)

The present volume of the Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals is dedicated to SDG 6 "Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all". Water and sanitation are fundamental to human well-being. Integrated water resources management is essential to ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all and to the realization of Sustainable Development.

Foresight Africa 2023 - Top priorities for the continent in 2023 (30/01/2023)

Africa’s economic recovery is currently threatened by multiple crises and a precarious external environment. The war in Ukraine and global surge in inflation have ripped open the scars of the pandemic. Fragility in parts of the continent and adverse weather conditions are also key concerns. With these challenges, it is easy to be pessimistic about Africa’s prospects, and yet, Africa has proved resilient—time and time again.

Africa’s Macroeconomic Performance and Outlook (31/01/2023)

Despite the challenging external environment, Africa has demonstrated continued resilience, with all but one country maintaining positive growth in 2022 and with outlooks stable for 2023 and 2024. Africa’s GDP growth is projected to average about 4% in 2023 and 2024, higher than the projected world averages of 2.7% and 3.2%, respectively.

China-Africa relations (27/01/2023)

What are China’s objectives in Africa, how valid is the concept of ‘debt trap’ diplomacy, and what are China’s military ambitions in the region?

African social media indicates indifference towards Russia (01/02/2023)

To assess public opinion of Russia on the continent—and, by extension, the potential success of Moscow’s Africa strategy—SAIIA reviewed analysis of social media data from Twitter in thirteen African countries from February to October 2022.

Europe's re-engagement with Ethiopia (07/02/2023)

Europe should prioritize the prerequisites for lasting peace in Ethiopia, rather than its own geopolitical concerns.

Afrique-Russie: Les raisons d'une comparaison (07/02/2023)

Ce livre consiste à comparer deux ensembles, l'Afrique et le monde russe, avec le choix de ne pas envisager les différences, notamment historiques ou culturelles, que chacun connaît. L'objectif est de montrer les points communs des deux aires. Fruit d'une observation attentive de la part de deux spécialistes qui ont arpenté de nombreux pays des deux zones, ce travail inédit s'adresse à tout lecteur curieux, à l'heure d'un possible rapprochement entre certains États africains et une Russie devenue à bien des égards infréquentable.

Russia in Africa: Resurgent Great Power or Bellicose Pretender? (10/02/2023)

Three decades after the Soviet Union’s collapse, Russia has transformed from a fringe player to a resurgent great power in Africa. This book presents a chronological examination of Russia’s post-Cold War foreign policy towards Africa, and outlines the factors that have enabled and impeded the growth of its influence. It pays special attention to the non-material factors behind this rising power.

Zimbabwe: The Blame Game (10/02/2023)

This book wants to start the process of talking by finding who is to blame for the political and economic problems of the country and suggesting how to solve them. It still tackles Zimbabwe, even as it tackles life in exile, especially for those Zimbabweans who left for South Africa; what they had to deal with, especially the xenophobia of year 2008.

Growth Performance of Middle-Income Countries: East Asia vs. Latin America (27/01/2023)

The stellar performance of the four East Asian Tiger economies during the last quarter of the twentieth century is contrasted with that of middle-income countries in Southeast Asia and Latin America over the past two decades. On balance, the Southeast Asian countries have done better than Latin American countries by pursuing export-led industrial strategies, however, unlike the Tigers, neither group has been able to enter the ranks of high-income countries.

Asian Economic Integration Report 2023: Trade, Investments, and Climate Change in Asia and the Pacific (08/02/2023)

This report shows how smart trade and investment policies, and regulatory cooperation in the Asia and Pacific region can help economies tackle climate change, recover from the pandemic, and support resilient and sustainable development.

Pensions at a Glance Asia/Pacific (06/02/2023)

Asia’s pension systems urgently need to be reformed to ensure that they are both financially sustainable and provide adequate retirement incomes. This report examines the retirement-income systems of 11 non-OECD countries in the region, comparing the results with a selection of OECD countries.

The World’s Humanitarian, Economic, and Political Engagement with Afghanistan (06/02/2023)

The August 2021 fall of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and its replacement by the Taliban ended a two decade chapter of economic and social development. As of December 2021, 98% of the population lacked sufficient food and 90% were projected to be living in poverty. By summer 2022, the economy had shrunk by 20-30%.

Afghanistan. Analysis of localisation challenges (10/02/2023)

This report aims to develop a preliminary understanding of the different challenges that NNGOs face in Afghanistan, as identified through a review of existing literature and additional conversations with NNGOs, INGOs, and some coordination actors.

Asia-Pacific Small States: Political Economies of Resilience (10/02/2023)

Both the spread of Covid-19 and the intense US-China rivalry have been sources of stress for national economies throughout Asia Pacific. The authors of this book, eschewing the usual focus on the region's powerhouses, turn their attention instead to the coping strategies of the smaller economies.

Asian Tourism Sustainability (10/02/2023)

This book brings together a collection of chapters that investigate sustainable tourism development in different Asian contexts; from stakeholders’ perspectives, existing issues in the market, as well as the impacts of COVID-19 on tourism. It highlights the importance of tourism sustainability in Asia.

Balance Preliminar de las Economías de América Latina y el Caribe 2022 (07/02/2023)

Los países de América Latina y el Caribe enfrentan un panorama económico desafiante en 2023. En el frente externo se espera una mayor desaceleración tanto del crecimiento como del comercio mundial, precios de productos básicos más bajos que en 2022 y condiciones financieras a nivel mundial que seguirán influidas por la aversión al riesgo y las políticas monetarias restrictivas en los países desarrollados.

Cambio transformacional en América Latina y el Caribe: un enfoque de política orientada por misiones (07/02/2023)

Los actuales retos económicos y sociales de América Latina y el Caribe han puesto de manifiesto tanto los problemas estructurales de la región como la necesidad urgente de encontrar nuevos motores de crecimiento económico.

Economic Survey of the Caribbean 2022 (07/02/2023)

This survey examines the economic performance of economies of the Caribbean in 2021 and the first few months of 2022.

Decenio Internacional para los Afrodescendientes: breve examen en el marco de la pandemia de COVID-19 en América Latina y el Caribe (08/02/2023)

Las poblaciones afrodescendientes sufren altos niveles de desigualdad y privación exacerbadas durante la pandemia de COVID-19. En esta publicación se busca recoger el sentir de las personas afrodescendientes y registrar algunos de sus aportes y estrategias para hacer frente a la crisis sociosanitaria y económica.

Revista CEPAL no. 138 (08/02/2023)

En este nuevo número de la Revista CEPAL destacan, entre otros, artículos sobre el efecto de la banda ancha en el crecimiento económico de América Latina, el impacto de la exclusión del mercado interbancario de las cooperativas, o el tratado de Libre Comercio entre Chile y la República de Corea.

La otra América Latina: Momentos y aprendizajes que cambian el mundo (10/02/2023)

Este texto pretende ser crónica y aprendizaje de la historia más reciente de la Otra América Latina. Aquella historia que pueden relatar, y que construyen, los movimientos sociales de las últimas décadas: las mujeres y los hombres de las barriadas populares, de las favelas, de las periferias de las grandes y las pequeñas ciudades, de los campos y las selva, en suma, quienes siempre quedaron en los márgenes del sistema dominante.

China y América Latina en una nueva fase: desafíos en siglo XXI (10/02/2023)

Esta obra promueve la reflexión y el debate sobre la complejidad de las relaciones entre China y la región, con análisis centrados en estudios de casos por medio de enfoques multidisciplinarios. Cuenta con la participación de destacados especialistas, quienes enriquecen el conocimiento sobre las relaciones sino-latinoamericanas, destacando la originalidad de cada capítulo y sus contenidos, que proporcionan una lectura con amplitud y profundidad temática sobre los escenarios actuales y las perspectivas de las relaciones.

Le Pérou, des citoyens en quête de république (07/02/2023)

La recherche de cohésion sociale, la soif de citoyenneté, d'appartenance à une communauté nationale font de la société péruvienne un laboratoire pour comprendre les dynamiques qui construisent la démocratie et celles qui la sapent. À l'heure où même les nations les mieux nanties semblent connaître une « fatigue démocratique », ce livre s'adresse à tous ceux qui s'interrogent sur l'évolution de la démocratie en Amérique latine et dans le monde, et sur ce qu'être « citoyen » veut dire.

In the face of war, a year of action in Ukraine (10/02/2023)

Since the beginning of the war, UNESCO has been advocating for respect for international humanitarian law and implementing emergency measures in Ukraine as part of its mandate for education, science, culture, information and communication.

Conflict in Ukraine: Key evidence on risks of trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants (03/02/2023)

The forced displacement context related to the war in Ukraine encompasses ongoing internal displacement, cross-border displacement, mobility between transit and hosting countries, and returns. The number of people who have fled Ukraine and been registered abroad since the outbreak of conflict has reached over 8.13 million.

Russia’s Wartime Cyber Operations in Ukraine: Military Impacts, Influences, and Implications (27/01/2023)

Russia’s cyber operations in Ukraine have apparently not had much military impact. This was probably for a multitude of reasons: Russia’s offensive limitations, as well as the defensive efforts of Ukraine and its partners; the particular context of this war, as well as structural features of cyberspace and warfare generally.

Putin’s Private Army: How Wagner Group Supports Russian Strategy (06/02/2023)

This policy brief describes the Russian Wagner group as an opaque and ruthless instrument allowing President Putin to expand strategic political influence across failing or failed autocratic regimes and an occult way to secure troves of cash, oil, gold, or diamonds.

Ukraine. Looking ahead to 2023: outlook and risk analysis (30/01/2023)

This report aims to identify the most important contextual developments in Ukraine and provide an anticipatory level of analysis. It includes an outlook into how the current dynamics can develop and on potential risks that could further deteriorate the situation of the affected population.

Averting a New War between Armenia and Azerbaijan (31/01/2023)

The European Union is sending monitors to Armenia’s border with Azerbaijan, so as to lessen the danger of renewed fighting between the two countries over Nagorno-Karabakh and other issues. Brussels must give the mission the means and mandate it will need to succeed.

Armenia-Azerbaijan: Nagorno-Karabakh blockade (24/01/2023)

Since 12 December 2022, Azerbaijani ‘eco-activists’ have blocked the Lachin corridor. They state that the main reason for the blockade is to stop the mining of gold and copper in the area The Lachin corridor connects Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia and is crucial for the transportation of essential goods to ethnic Armenian people residing in the region.

La guerre contre l'Ukraine ou la fin du "monde russe" (07/02/2023)

Le déclenchement de la guerre contre l'Ukraine a surpris un peu partout. Pourtant, elle participe d'un continuum historique où s'inscrit la gouvernance selon Vladimir Poutine. On voit dans cette agression se manifester des traits anciens relevant du despotisme en Russie. En lançant cette guerre sur la base d'un mensonge, le président russe a remis en cause le système de sécurité en Europe ainsi que les rapports de force géopolitiques.

Between hedging and bandwagoning - Interpreting the reactions of Middle Eastern and North African states to the Russian-Ukrainian war (06/02/2023)

As the Russian-Ukranian conflict enters its second calendar year, its effects are increasingly felt all across the Euro-Mediterranean region. Specifically in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), the conflict has stirred up trouble in a delicate manner from political, economic and social perspectives.

MENA and the Global Energy Conundrum (27/01/2023)

The Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) is addicted to fossil fuels, but so too is the rest of the world economy. Solutions to the energy transition have thus to be found in a coordinated global shift in both the supply and demand for fossil fuels and clean(er) energy, where multilateral institutions can play an important role.

Land Matters : Can Better Governance and Management of Scarcity Prevent a Looming Crisis in the Middle East and North Africa? (09/02/2023)

Across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, land is a scarce and valuable resource. The projected increase in land demand due to demographic trends, coupled with decreasing land supply due to climatic and governance factors, indicate a looming crisis happening at a time when the region is also facing dramatic social and political transformation.

Financial Inclusion and Hurdles to Funding Tunisian Female Entrepreneurs (06/02/2023)

This paper addresses gender self-selection amongst Tunisian women entrepreneurs in the context of financial inclusion of Tunisian women in the economy.

Fiji: Fact Sheet (08/02/2023)

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic caused Fiji’s economy to contract by 15.2% in 2020 and an estimated 4.1% in 2021. Prospects for recovery in 2022 have improved with the reopening of borders in December 2021.

Appraising New Damage Assessment Techniques in Disaster-Prone Fiji (09/02/2023)

This brief explores how new satellite imagery technology can help predict the impact of tropical cyclones in climate vulnerable countries such as Fiji, analyze their potential compounding effects, and improve disaster risk management.

Iraq’s quest for a social contract: an approach to promoting social cohesion and state resilience (07/02/2023)

This study sets out to examine state-society relations in Iraq through the conceptual lens of the social contract and also provides a starting point for deriving potential areas of activity for external actors, such as German development cooperation and technical cooperation.

Shaping the future with Africa (07/02/2023)

Africa’s progress is currently being threatened by geopolitical, demographic, and economic upheaval and crises. At the same time, African countries are key partners in addressing global challenges. The way it develops will leave its stamp on the 21st century and thus also determine the future of Germany and Europe.

Nauru: Fact Sheet (09/02/2023)

As a single island measuring only 21 square kilometers, Nauru faces the challenge of developing new drivers of growth amid significant resource constraints. The Government of Nauru’s income derives mainly from a regional processing center for asylum seekers and revenues from selling fishing licenses.

Comunicación 2022 de la Cooperación Española (07/02/2023)

En un complejo contexto mundial, en el que las prioridades de los países donantes pueden cambiar drásticamente, la Cooperación Española afronta un momento largamente esperado por todos los actores: la reforma de su sistema de cooperación.

Official Development Assistance by regime context (2010-19) (31/01/2023)

This report examines official development assistance (ODA) allocations by regime context, the kind of support donors provide to different regime types and if and how donors respond to processes of democratisation and autocratisation. The analysis covers country allocable ODA provided by all official donors to 124 ODA recipients.

Enhancing coordination between European donors, development agencies and DFIs/PDBs (19/12/2022)

Collectively a major economic powerhouse, and the world’s largest provider of official development assistance (ODA), the European Union is engaged in a process of combining its various tools and objectives towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Aid Reimagined: How can foreign assistance support locally-led development? (19/12/2022)

If international development partners are to live up to their rhetoric and aspiration of supporting locally-led development, they must learn to see from the perspectives of their counterparts in the Global South. This report draws upon the experiences of nearly 7,000 leaders at the forefront of pushing forward reforms in 141 countries to answer three critical questions. How do leaders assess progress in advancing their national development goals? What key constraints do leaders see as hindering progress in achieving their goals? How can international actors best support locally-led development?

The Role of Development Actors in Responding to Environment and Security Links (20/12/2022)

Despite growing interest among development actors to integrate links between the environment, climate, peace and security into their policies and activities, practical approaches to addressing environment-related security risks are lagging behind awareness at policy level. This policy brief provides insights into how donors can incentivize implementing organizations to further develop and apply these practical approaches.

Africa’s Infrastructure-Led Growth Experiment Is Faltering. It Is Time to Focus on Agriculture (20/12/2022)

Instead of fixating on infrastructure, African countries should look to the experience of Latin American countries with similar resource endowments: a greater relative abundance of land than low-cost labor.

Battling Climate Change and Transforming Agri-Food Systems: Asia–Pacific Rural Development and Food Security Forum 2022 Highlights and Takeaways (07/01/2023)

The publication shares insights from the forum to support policymakers in rethinking the future of agriculture amid complex and evolving challenges; exploring new research, innovations, and technologies to build nature-positive food systems.

Strengthening Food Safety Systems in the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Member Countries: Current Status, Framework, and Forward Strategies (07/01/2023)

Building on best practices, this paper aims to provide direction for strengthening food safety systems in the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation area to promote countries’ participation in regional and global food trade.

Agri-food Value Chain Revolutions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (20/12/2022)

This paper offers an integrated, structured, empirical narrative of how and why agri-food value chain revolutions occur in developing countries, the impacts of those changes, and the abundant economic research opportunities these structural changes afford.

‘Resilience without development’ in a remote rural West African community: the case of Kayima, Sierra Leone (29/12/2022)

Relatively few longitudinal studies have been undertaken of change and development among rural communities in Africa. Drawing on field-based research conducted over almost five decades, the article examines the shocks and adaptive strategies experienced in the remote rural community of Kayima in north-eastern Sierra Leone.

Petite irrigation et systèmes de culture en Afrique subsaharienne: Le cas de la région d'Agadez (Niger) (30/12/2022)

Située en zone sahélo-saharienne frontalière avec la Libye au nord et l'Algérie à l'Ouest, la région d'Agadez comprend plusieurs oasis où la petite irrigation s'est développée depuis le 18e siècle comme moyen de subsistance pour les populations locales qui étaient majoritairement des éleveurs nomades ou transhumants. Suite à l'intervention de plusieurs partenaires du développement dans les années 1950-1970 et, avec les nouvelles orientations stratégiques promues par le régime militaire dans les années 1980-1990 au Niger, elle se dynamise en s'orientant vers la satisfaction de la demande exprimée sur les marchés locaux, nationaux et sous-régionaux.

Global Biodiversity Framework: A New Deal for Nature (02/01/2023)

Complex interactions between science, society, and economics systems make biodiversity conservation a challenging task. Systems thinking can support more integrative biodiversity interventions, to avoid silos and create shared understandings of how to conserve biodiversity.

UNESCO’s actions for biodiversity: making peace with nature (30/12/2022)

The international community aims to create protected areas on at least 30% of the planet by 2030. This objective will be meaningless if humans continue to destroy the remaining 70%. The conservation and protection of biodiversity calls for a deeper change in values and behaviour; humans have to live in harmony with other species, everywhere on earth, for the good of present and future generations.

The values of wildlife revisited (09/01/2023)

Wild animals are important worldwide because of the multiple values they represent for human societies. Different frameworks have been proposed to understand the values of wildlife from economic and noneconomic perspectives.

The global biodiversity framework needs a robust action agenda (16/12/2022)

Bending the curve of biodiversity loss is a key priority for humanity and requires urgent action. The rapid loss of biological diversity threatens human lives, livelihoods and well-being globally, and is reinforcing and being reinforced by climate breakdown.

Translation as a Means for Preserving and Disseminating Oral Heritage (16/12/2022)

Protecting the heritage of communities is a means to revive them. The goal of the current paper is to explore how translation can be utilised as an effective tool for the preservation, survival, and dissemination of the oral heritage of marginalised communities within the Iraqi context.

Citizen Voice and the Arts: Opportunities and Challenges for Citizen–Policy Engagement on Environmental Issues in Sahelian West Africa (06/01/2023)

In Sahelian West Africa, including in Mauritania, Senegal, and Mali, artists and citizens have used protest art to make their voices heard, in contexts where this can carry risks of conflict with authorities. This paper explores how far art may be used as a tool for dialogue between different groups on environmental concerns in the Western Sahel.

La civilisation des Pachtounes d'Afghanistan et du Pakistan (02/12/2022)

L'Afghanistan fut créé en 1747, le Pakistan en 1947. Ces pays sont le creuset de l'ethnie pachtoune. Formé d'un amalgame de tribus, ce groupe social a pour code de valeurs le pachto, ou pashtunwali. La diaspora pachtoune s'est étendue aux pays voisins (sous-continent indien, péninsule arabique, monde iranien, Asie Centrale, Bangladesh, etc.). Elle se déploie de nos jours, à l'issue de quarante années de conflits, à des dimensions planétaires. Les contributions réunies dans cet ouvrage révèlent une fascinante entité politique et culturelle, secouée depuis un demi-siècle par la guerre et les violences du fanatisme musulman.

Contemporary Art from Nigeria in the Global Markets - Trending in the Margins (07/01/2023)

This book integrates voices of African (Nigerian) artists and art market players into the growing discourse on the emerging art markets in the Global South. It explores the logic of competition and dynamics of power relations in the global markets, focusing on the internationalization of contemporary art forms from peripheral regions.

Cultura y cambio social en América Latina (08/01/2023)

Compilacion de analisis sobre cultura contemporanea que parte del cambio social como elemento primordial para pensar la cultura en un momento de conflicto marcado por la transicion desde la modernidad al capitalismo tardio. Hablar de crisis en el campo del latinoamericanismo resulta ya un lugar comun. Sin embargo, la alusion al cambio social como elemento fundamental para pensar la cultura a que se alude en el titulo de este libro apela justamente al sentido de modificacion profunda que atraviesa la nocion de crisis, y tambien a la incertidumbre que acompaña la transicion que se observa entre el mundo moderno y el que responde a los determinantes del capitalismo tardio.

Democracy in Asia (22/12/2022)

As powerful democratic states around the world face increasing strain from an interconnected set of domestic challenges — political, economic, and cultural — as well as uncertainty about American strategy and the implications of emerging technologies, Asia represents a critical frontier for democracy.

Propuesta para una agenda de investigación sobre las derechas latinoamericanas (03/01/2023)

La acertada estrategia de pretender ser antipolíticos para hacer política de otra manera es la primera gran mentira. El sentido común se ha forjado en mayorías desencantadas de la realidad, sobresaturadas de desinformación y que tienden a optar por el consumo antes que por la ciudadanía. En este contexto, este artículo propone una forma más rigurosa de estudiar la derecha latinoamericana.

Gender-related killings of women and girls: Improving data to improve responses to femicide/feminicide (04/01/2023)

Violence against women and girls is the most pervasive human rights violation rooted in gender inequality and discrimination, unequal power relations, and harmful social norms. The gender-related killing of women and girls is the most brutal and extreme manifestation of such violence.

Guatemala: Recopilación de información preparada por la Oficina del Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos (16/12/2022)

Según la Alta Comisionada de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos, Guatemala siguió enfrentando retos sistémicos y estructurales para la implementación efectiva de sus obligaciones de derechos humanos, en particular la pobreza, la desigualdad, la discriminación, la impunidad y la inseguridad, que se habían visto exacerbados por la pandemia de enfermedad por coronavirus (COVID-19)

Transition au Tchad : apaiser les tensions en ligne (20/12/2022)

L’utilisation croissante des réseaux sociaux au Tchad pourrait faciliter la transition politique, mais elle risque également d’attiser la violence. Avec le soutien des bailleurs, les autorités, la société civile, les plateformes en ligne et les influenceuses et influenceurs devraient s’assurer que les réseaux sociaux restent un espace de débat démocratique plutôt qu’un accélérateur de conflits.

Africa, Human Rights and the COVID-19 Pandemic. Mitigation Dynamics and their Implications for Human Rights, Freedoms and Civil Liberties (07/01/2023)

This book makes a significant contribution by initiating debate on the state of human rights, freedoms and civil liberties in the context of emergencies such as pandemics in general and Covid-19 in particular. It is without doubt that as the world was preoccupied with combating the Covid-19 pandemic, issues of rights, freedoms and liberties in the context of this struggle increasingly came under close scrutiny. In many African countries, there were concerns about Covid-19 containment measures being enforced brutally by state security operatives such as the army, the police and the intelligence officers.

The role of digital education in future shocks: priorities from the Global South (14/12/2022)

This policy brief presents the most pressing concerns that must be resolved if online education is to thrive in the face of potential future disruptions. It also stresses the value of not abandoning anyone along the way.

Setting commitments : national SDG 4 benchmarks to transform education (06/01/2023)

As the world reaches the midpoint in implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the international education community is still reeling from the impact of the long school closures that characterized the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Going digital: How learning and employment records shape access to quality education and jobs (22/12/2022)

This report examines how digital credentials and learning and employment records are shaping the ways people access education and career opportunities around the world. Although the new technologies may expand opportunities for many learners and workers, they also risk leaving many communities and individuals behind.

Key tensions in refugee education (22/12/2022)

The global education crisis is also a global refugee education crisis, as far too many refugee students must contend with barriers to access, low quality, and limited relevance in their learning opportunities. Refugee education continues to be under-supported in policy dialogue and funding.

Dreams and Barriers: Aspirations, Expectations, and Schooling Outcomes of Indonesian Students (23/12/2022)

High aspirations for their future motivate youth to strive toward them and achieve better outcomes. However, the influence of perceived constraints on the motivational power of aspirations is unclear: do high aspirations motivate independently of constraints or only when expected constraints seem workable? This paper explores this question with a gender lens and using a large, cross-sectional survey of adolescent students in Indonesia.

L'Université face aux enjeux actuels en RDC. Développement des ressources humaines et inculturation de l'innovation (30/12/2022)

La République démocratique du Congo est dotée des potentialités naturelles immenses et disposant des scientifiques de renom formés dans les grandes universités du monde et du pays. Mais la majorité de la population congolaise vit dans une misère sans précédent. Le progrès socio-économique et le développement, sur la base des atouts existants, doit associer les savoirs universitaires pour obtenir dans la société une véritable inculturation technologique et managériale.

Handbook of Language Policy and Education in Countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) (30/12/2022)

This volume focuses on the different challenges of language policy in the Southern African Development Community (SADC). It reveals the complex and reciprocal relations between multiple indigenous African languages, Creole languages and former colonial languages and it constitutes an opportunity to notice recurring patterns as well as distinctive characteristics. Therefore, everyone involved in language policy, education, economics and development, geography, development or area studies and African studies will benefit from such a holistic and innovative overview.

Promoting Youth Engagement for Decent Employment: Addressing the Disconnects (16/12/2022)

This paper explores how youth engagement takes place across a range of policy areas relevant to youth employment, drawing on desk research, case study research in Ghana and data from interviews conducted with policy advisors based in various African countries and donor headquarters.

Labour mobility as a key element of the AfCFTA: What role for the AU’s free movement protocol? (20/12/2022)

Connecting the free movement of goods and services and the free movement of persons is essential to harness the benefits of intra-African trade. The present brief looks at the role of the African Union’s free movement protocol – which has received much less attention than the AfCFTA agreement – in facilitating labour mobility.

The future of work in the context of population ageing in Asia and the Pacific (29/12/2022)

This paper deals with the diverse landscape of demographic and labour market trends in the Asia-Pacific region, and puts them in context with emerging trends and developments – repercussions of COVID-19, the transition toward a green economy, the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the impact of and responses to climate change and natural disasters.

Inequality and social cohesion in Africa: theoretical insights and an exploratory empirical investigation (05/01/2023)

Inequality is bad per se and has adverse effects, among other things, on economic development and the environment. It is also often argued that high and increasing inequalities put societies under stress, which increases the likelihood of social conflicts.

Policy responses to COVID-19: why social cohesion and social protection matter in Africa (05/01/2023)

This empirical analysis investigates whether and to what extent social cohesion and the coverage of social protection schemes influence governments’ decisions about the stringency of COVID-19 containment policies during the first and second waves in 2020 in Africa.

Protecciones sociales en América Latina en tiempos de pandemia: Miradas en torno a la capacidad acumulada de bienestar público (08/01/2023)

Este libro tiene como objetivo recopilar y analizar las políticas de bienestar y protección social puestas en marcha por un conjunto de países latinoamericanos en respuesta a las consecuencias socioeconómicas provocadas por la pandemia mundial del COVID-19.

Shaping the Continent’s Energy Future while Navigating the New Scramble for Africa (04/01/2023)

The geopolitics of energy security place the African continent in between industrialised economies that are searching for securing their energy demands amidst geopolitical tensions and economic inflation.

How global decarbonisation can turn into an industrial development opportunity in Africa (04/01/2023)

Africa has often been perceived as a source of raw materials to fuel the global energy transition, with little attention on what is needed to maximise the broader socio-economic benefits of low carbon transitions in this continent.

El empleo en un futuro de cero emisiones netas en Costa Rica : las energías renovables como habilitador de amplios beneficios para el país (06/01/2023)

En procura de una economía « 3D » (descentralizada, digitalizada y descarbonizada), Costa Rica fomenta transformaciones hacia el año 2050 a través de su Plan Nacional de Descarbonización (PND) y del Plan Estratégico Nacional (PEN). Una implementación exitosa de estos planes impulsaría un aumento en el número de empleos relacionados con las energías limpias, el transporte sostenible, y el uso eficiente de los recursos naturales.

Conflict sensitivity and renewable energy: a case study from Kenya’s Kakuma Refugee Camp (09/01/2023)

This report examines the need to consider conflict sensitivity when planning and carrying out renewable energy projects in energy-scarce areas, such as refugee camps. The report uses a case study from Kenya’s Kakuma Refugee Camp to look at the potential for renewable energy projects to lead to conflict or to exacerbate existing tensions.

Enabling the green transition of business : policy approaches from Asia and the Pacific and Latin America (29/12/2022)

The objective of this publication is to inform policymakers and other stakeholders on the development of new policy measures and business innovations that support the green transition of business and promote opportunities for the green economy in the Asia-Pacific region and Latin America.

Climate Shocks and Domestic Conflicts in Africa (02/01/2023)

This paper analyzes the interlinkages between climate shocks, domestic conflicts, and policy resilience in Africa. It builds on a Correlated Random Effect model to assess these interrelationships on a broad sample of 51 African countries over the 1990-2018 period.

Climate Finance in Africa (04/01/2023)

This report investigates the emerging climate policy arena and maps actors, coalitions and contestations associated with implementing nationally determined contributions (NDCs) in Africa.

Angola Country Climate and Development Report (08/12/2022)

Climate change is already affecting people’s lives and livelihoods in Angola, as well as the Angolan economy. The country is experiencing increasingly severe and frequent climate hazards, including the South’s worst prolonged droughts in decades. Climate change impacts also come with a heavy price tag: climate-related disasters (floods, storms, droughts) cost Angola nearly US1.2 billion dollars between 2005 and 2017, and on average droughts alone affect about a million Angolans every year.

Théories et pratique de l'économie verte en Afrique et pour l’Afrique (13/12/2022)

Malgré la pauvreté qui sévit en Afrique, l'urgence climatique oblige, dans cette partie du monde dotée d'importantes ressources naturelles, que les progrès économiques soient réalisés dans la vision d'un développement durable. C'est pourquoi il est utile d'intensifier l'éducation au développement durable dans toutes les couches sociales, en commençant par les élites et les étudiants. Cet ouvrage se fonde sur la prise en compte de la contrainte écologique dans l'organisation de la production et de la répartition des richesses ; et, à travers 21 leçons, convie tous les acteurs économiques à apprendre et à pratiquer l'économie du développement durable.

Climate Tipping Points: Insights for Effective Policy Action (08/01/2023)

This report reviews evidence that overshooting 1.5°C may push the earth over several tipping points, leading to irreversible and severe changes in the climate system.

Financing in Fragile and Conflict Contexts: Evidence, Opportunities, and Barriers (16/12/2022)

Interconnecting, compounding and protracted crises affect a growing number of countries. Globally, 1.5 billion people – one in five of the world’s population – live in fragile and conflict affected situations (FCAS), yet financing to key sectors is not keeping pace with need.

The coming debt crisis: monitoring liquidity and solvency risks (20/12/2022)

External public debt risks in developing countries are on the rise and have been for several years. Higher debt stocks, debt service and assessed risks by international institutions have led to intensified calls to strengthen debt restructuring initiatives. This paper provides a global snapshot of the debt situation in developing countries.

A Guide for Developing Countries on How to Understand and Adapt to the Global Minimum Tax (04/01/2023)

This guide provides policy-makers in developing countries with a simple framework to understand the global minimum tax, how it may affect them, and how to adapt their domestic tax policy in response.

Public expenditures and inequality in Asia-Pacific : understanding the relationship (29/12/2022)

This policy brief examines the relationship between income inequality and government expenditures on education, health, housing and social protection in the Asia-Pacific region. It draws policy lessons for making public social spending a more potent tool for promoting inclusive growth.

Ethiopia and investment provisions in the AfCFTA: issues and challenges (20/12/2022)

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) investment protocol can be leveraged to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) to Ethiopia. Synchronising bilateral and multilateral agreements with domestic economic policies, as well as developing a negotiation position on the National Special Economic Zone Policy to attract FDI, will help Ethiopia prepare ahead of time.

Researching Africa and the offshore world (30/12/2022)

One of the key features of today's global economy is an ‘offshore world’ of financial structures, institutions and techniques designed to provide secrecy, asset protection and tax exemption.

The world in 2023: Ten issues that will shape the international agenda (02/01/2023)

Limits, both individual and collective, will be tested in 2023, whether it be inflation, food security, the energy crisis, rising pressure on global supply chains and geopolitical competition, international security and governance systems breaking down, and the collective capacity to respond to it all.

Weathering Two Storms: Gender and Climate in Peace and Security (04/01/2023)

The analysis of this report draws on emerging work on the linkages between insecurity, gender inequality and climate vulnerability, as well as a series of interviews with practitioners and researchers in this field.

Afghan Women and the Opiate Trade (04/01/2023)

According to this research study, Afghan women are involved in a wide range of roles within the illicit opiate trade, including trafficking outside Afghanistan and selling heroin to users. Having entered the drug trade for a combination of social and economic motives, the women remained involved mostly for financial reasons.

Megatrends and conflict dynamics in Africa: multipolarity and delegation in foreign interventions (05/01/2023)

Megatrends such as climate change, digitalisation, and urbanisation are transforming all aspects of politics, economics and society in Africa. Consequently, they are also affecting conflict dynamics. This working paper focuses specifically on how megatrends are altering patterns of foreign intervention in African conflicts.

Illicit Small Arms and Light Weapons in Sub-Saharan Africa: Using UN Reports on Arms Embargoes to Identify Sources, Challenges and Policy Measures (20/12/2022)

The report provides a typology on the sources of illicit small arms and light weapons (SALW) in the states and regions under embargo and discusses the challenges of enforcing arms embargoes and possible policy solutions to address the various sources of illicit SALW in order to inform and support efforts to combat the proliferation of illicit arms.

Democratic Republic of Congo: Impact of intercommunal violence and displacement in Kwango, Kwilu, and Mai-Ndombe provinces (28/12/2022)

Clashes between the Teke and Yaka communities over a land dispute have displaced more than 48,000 people in Kwango, Kwilu, and Mai-Ndombe provinces since 24 July. More than 180 people have died since the violence began, although this figure is probably underestimated as not all the victims have been counted and sporadic clashes are often unreported.

Russia’s private military diplomacy in Africa: High risk, low reward, limited impact (13/12/2022)

The assumption of many researchers is that Russia’s renewed interest in Africa is driven by its quest for global power status. Few expect Russia’s security engagement to bring peace and development to countries with which it has security partnerships. This article argues that Moscow has found success by providing security solutions to fragile states and weak regimes without political strings attached, thus making Russia a preferred security partner.

La coopération ONU-UA pour une paix durable et holistique en Afrique (30/12/2022)

Cet ouvrage propose des solutions innovantes aux difficultés de la coopération interinstitutionnelle à assurer une paix holistique et durable en Afrique, un continent dont la caractéristique principale, depuis les indépendances, reste et demeure la conflictualité, l'instabilité politique, l'insécurité totale, la mal gouvernance et la pauvreté de masse mais avec des perspectives prometteuses.

La géopolitique du Sahel. Analyse du terrorisme djihadiste (06/01/2023)

Le Sahel est une région vaste comme l'Europe. Cette région aride fait face, depuis plusieurs années, à des violences intercommunautaires et à des attaques djihadistes. La menace terroriste s'est déplacée du Nord Mali désertique vers la frontière entre le Mali, le Burkina Faso et le Niger : zone dite des « trois frontières ». Depuis 2012, les actes terroristes sont récurrents au Sahel. Les pays du G-5 Sahel (Mauritanie, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger et Tchad) font face à de nombreuses attaques liées aux groupes djihadistes dont les premières victimes sont des civils innocents.

Terrorisme au Burkina Faso : négocier ou pas ? (30/12/2022)

Au Burkina Faso, le terrorisme a engendré une situation sécuritaire et sociale délétère jamais connue par cette jeune nation d'une soixantaine d'années. Depuis 2015, il n'a cessé d'endeuiller toute la société burkinabé qui est en train de se nécroser. Les forces de défenses et de sécurité peinent à rassurer et à ramener la paix.

Advancing gender equality and women’s digital empowerment in the Global South (14/12/2022)

During the pandemic, governments faced difficulties ensuring inclusivity in the delivery of digital public services. This is particularly apparent in the Global South, where the rapid digitalisation of public services has deepened structural inequalities and vulnerabilities. Given the the newfound importance of connectivity and digital literacy for accessing public services, the need to bridge the gender digital divide has become ever more pressing.

Interventions for Women's Empowerment in Developing Countries: An Evidence Gap Map (02/01/2023)

Empowering rural women and girls is intrinsic to climate action, inclusive food systems and achieving the SDGs. This evidence gap map visualises the areas in which most research on effective interventions for women’s empowerment is concentrated—and where there are gaps.

Climate change, migration and gender: seeking solutions (13/12/2022)

Women’s empowerment and gender equality are fundamental for effective, efficient and sustainable climate mitigation and adaptation. Despite being powerful stakeholders and change agents, women are often not included in climate policies that apply gender-neutral approaches, deepen inequality and hamper effective climate action.

Women Empowerment for Poverty and Inequality Reduction in Sudan (07/01/2023)

This paper examines how gender equality has evolved in Sudan during the last decade. The analysis comprises various dimensions including the accumulation of endowment in all its forms (human capital and physical capital), access to economic opportunities, access to services (water, sanitation, and electricity), and voice/representation to make decision at all levels.

The Effects of Childcare on Women and Children: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Burkina Faso (07/01/2023)

This paper studies whether providing affordable childcare improves women's economic empowerment and child development, using data from a sample of 1,990 women participating in a public works program in Burkina Faso. Women's employment and financial outcomes improved. Additionally, child development scores increased.

Impact of Gender Inequality on Long-Term Economic Growth in Mongolia (07/01/2023)

This paper estimates how eliminating gender inequality at work and at home in Mongolia would boost the country’s economic growth and sets out policy recommendations.

Financial Access of Women-Owned Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Viet Nam (07/01/2023)

This working paper identifies challenges in access to finance for women-owned small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Viet Nam and recommends ways to improve it.

Gender, sexuality and decolonisation in postcolonial Ghana (07/01/2023)

Since the turn of the millennium, in Ghana and in other African countries, there has been a vociferous debate over the history and present condition of the family. The debate has largely fragmented the Ghanaian constituency into two nearly intransigent camps: those who think the indigenous family system should experience cultural osmosis to accommodate the seismic Western cultural revolutions and the overwhelming religious constituency who advocate the retention of conservative family system.

Utiliser le futur pour définir aujourd’hui la gestion durable des territoires ruraux (06/01/2023)

La zone des Niayes doit répondre à la triple injonction de produire pour nourrir, loger une population croissante et contenir l’érosion maritime, alors que ses ressources en eau et ses sols sont directement menacés par le développement des activités économiques et de l’urbanisation.

Securocratic state-building: the rationales, rebuttals, and risks behind the extraordinary rise of Rwanda after the genocide (20/12/2022)

Both popular perspectives and theoretical characterizations of Rwanda’s remarkable trajectory following the genocide remain polarized more than a generation after the violence. The country has been hailed as a developmental state and denounced as an authoritarian ‘ethnocracy’. This article introduces the concept of securocratic state-building in response to this polarization.

Autoritarismo y narrativas sobre subalternidad en Guatemala y El Salvador: el comunista y el marero (03/01/2023)

Este artículo explora dos narrativas sobre subalternidad promovidas desde el Estado y grupos de poder conservadores en Guatemala y El Salvador: la narrativa del comunista y la del marero, haciendo hincapié en su papel como soporte cultural del autoritarismo.

Politiques publiques. Une introduction (30/12/2022)

Ce livre est, de manière fondamentale, un manuel qui se veut accessible à tous mais surtout aux citoyens pour qui le processus des politiques publiques peut paraitre souvent difficile à comprendre sinon énigmatique, bien qu'ils soient les principaux récipiendaires de ces politiques. Il est également une invitation aux acteurs du monde académique, politique et autres parties prenantes de ce processus, à repenser l'approche des politiques publiques en Afrique sub-Saharienne, notamment en Afrique de l'Ouest.

Contribution à une politique d'aménagement et de développement des territoires du Sénégal (30/12/2022)

Le lecteur trouvera ici des réponses à des questions comme comment appliquer une gouvernance vertueuse du territoire et mettre fin aux disparités territoriales qui exacerbent les frustrations et accentuent les revendications et les conflits, que faire pour éradiquer les injustices sociales, assurer les bases du développement durable, transformer les villes en levier de développement et restructurer les banlieues.

The EU Global Health Strategy: How to make it work (13/12/2022)

The EU’s new global health strategy aims to ‘go back to basics’ and achieve the health-related Sustainable Development Goals. This brief suggests ways to avoid global health falling off the agenda again: these include a stronger AU-EU partnership and targeted funding.

The Dutch vision and strategy on Global Health in times of multiple crises (03/01/2023)

In October 2022, the first-ever Dutch Global Health Strategy was released. This article wants to unpack the strategy by positioning the policy within a wider context, and looking at its role and significance for foreign and domestic health policy.

Weekly epidemiological update on COVID-19 – Edition 124 (03/01/2023)

Globally, more than 3 million new cases and 10 000 deaths have been reported in the week of 26 December 2022 to 1 January 2023. This represents a reduction in weekly cases and deaths of 22% and 12%, respectively. However, those trends need to be interpreted considering the reduction in testing and delays in reporting in many countries during the year-end holiday season.

Outbreak Brief #153: COVID-19 Pandemic (03/01/2023)

On 20 December 2022, a total of 12,142,675 COVID-19 cases and 256,470 deaths (CFR: 2.1%) have been reported by the 55 African Union (AU) Member States (MS). This represents 2% of all cases and 4% of all deaths reported globally. Since the detection of COVID-19 on the African continent (in February 2020), 53 (96%) AU MS have experienced three distinct COVID-19 waves, 48 (87%) MS have experienced four waves, 28 MS have experienced five waves, 6 MS have experienced a sixth wave and one MS (Kenya) has experienced a seventh wave.

COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Partnership - Issue 9 (28/12/2022)

After several months of decline in registered COVID-19 cases, numbers rose in November, with 11.4 million new cases registered – a 10% increase from October. In contrast, deaths from COVID-19 have remained relatively stable with 37,000 deaths registered in November.

Equitable Access to Vaccines: Myth or Reality? (02/01/2023)

Fighting the COVID-19 pandemic required vaccinations; however, ending it requires vaccination equality. The progress in vaccinations varies greatly across countries, with low- and middle-income countries having much lower vaccination rates than advanced countries.

Financing research and development for new vaccines in Asia-Pacific developing countries (29/12/2022)

There have been many important innovations in the landscape of vaccine development for neglected and emerging infectious diseases, such as the launch of public-private product development partnerships (PDPs). However, there is still a gap in funding the development of such vaccines, especially when it comes to financing late-stage trials.

Primary Health Care for Resilient Health Systems in Latin America (08/01/2023)

Latin American countries were hard hit by COVID-19 with rates of excess mortality above the OECD average. The pandemic brought additional stress to health systems already overstretched by a growing burden of chronic diseases, unequal access to health care services, overall under-investment in health and strong budgetary restrictions, and systemic inefficiencies.

Malawi: cholera outbreak (13/12/2022)

Since March 2022, Malawi has been experiencing the largest cholera outbreak reported in the last decade. As at 29 November, the cumulative confirmed cases and deaths were 10,652 and 310, respectively. The country needs medical supplies, vaccines, health worker training, and awareness campaigns on cholera to tackle the outbreak.

Thriving : Making Cities Green, Resilient, and Inclusive in a Changing Climate (23/12/2022)

Globally, 70% of greenhouse gas emissions emanate from cities. At the same time, cities are being hit increasingly by climate change related shocks and stresses, ranging from more frequent extreme weather events to inflows of climate migrants. This report analyzes how these shocks and stresses are interacting with other urban stresses to determine the greenness, resilience, and inclusiveness of urban and national development

The Impact Of Urbanisation On Political Regimes In Africa: A Literature Review (05/01/2023)

The discussion paper finds that urbanisation does not automatically lead to democratisation, but structures the way citizens relate to the state through settlement patterns, growing pressure on public goods and services, and improved access to education and communication technology.

Inclusive Infrastructure for Climate Action (04/01/2023)

Infrastructure development must be accelerated to address gaps, but this must be done through the right solutions and encompass more social needs. The report finds that inclusive infrastructure influences the achievement of up to 88% of the SDGs and calls for an approach to infrastructure that identifies and responds to marginalization, socio-economic inequalities and climate vulnerabilities.

Environmental sustainability of transport systems (29/12/2022)

Passenger and freight volume is expected to increase by over 100% between 2015 and 2050 in Asia and the Pacific due to continuous economic development, population growth and motorization. As a result, its environmental impact, including local and global pollution, will be significant over the next few decades.

Tracking sustainable mobility in Asia-Pacific cities 2022 (29/12/2022)

For many decades, cities in the Asia Pacific region have followed unsustainable patterns of transport development: worsening congestion and traffic safety, deteriorating air quality, high consumption of fossil fuels, and rising greenhouse gas emissions.

L'habitat précaire en Afrique subsaharienne: Le cas de l'agglomération de Yaoundé (30/12/2022)

Yaoundé est en proie à la prolifération de l'habitat précaire sous l'effet de la croissance démographique et de la crise économique : constructions en poto-poto, planches de bois, briques de terre crue et parfois parpaings de ciment investissent, etc. Les stratégies de traitement de l'habitat précaire par les pouvoirs publics visent à l'expulsion des populations et au désenclavement par restructuration.

The instrumentalization of migration (13/12/2022)

The aim of this paper is to use a geopolitical perspective to better understand the phenomenon of instrumentalization of migration. Such a perspective is helpful to analyse the points of vulnerability of target countries, and to initiate a discussion about possible strategic responses to prevent, deter and combat its use.

Migration narrative success. A conceptual tool for trans-disciplinary integration (03/01/2023)

This concept note develops the concept of “migration narrative success” (MNS) in view to create an analytical and practical tool that can facilitate and enhance exchange among different disciplinary perspectives within the project,

Humanitarian Access Overview - December 2022 (16/12/2022)

The December 2022 analysis found that, between July and the end of October 2022, crisis-affected populations in more than 80 countries were not receiving the humanitarian assistance they needed because of access constraints. Gambia, Papua New Guinea, and Sri Lanka have entered the ranking since the last Humanitarian Access Overview from July 2022.

2023 Emergency Watchlist (20/12/2022)

The report is the assessment of the 20 countries at greatest risk of new humanitarian emergency each year. These 20 countries are home to just 13% of the global population and account for a mere 1.6% of global GDP. Yet they represent 90% of people in humanitarian need, 81% of people globally who are forcibly displaced, 80% of people that are acutely food insecure, and 89% of conflict-related civilian deaths.

Global Humanitarian Overview 2022 (04/01/2023)

The 2022 Global Humanitarian Overview has increased considerably since its launch in 2021 due to the Ukraine crisis and the combined effects of conflict, climate change and natural disasters, the cost-of-living crisis and public health emergencies.

Turning The Tide on Internal Displacement: A Development Approach to Solutions (04/01/2023)

Internal displacement is a major challenge to sustainable development. By the end of the 2021, more than 59 million people remained displaced in their own countries – the highest ever global figure and more than double the number recorded 10 years ago.

Collecting data in the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar (05/01/2023)

This all-new learning document highlights the lessons learnt from five years of data collection in the Rohingya camps in the form of assessments, monitoring, and evaluation activities.

COVID-19 recovery for SMEs: A digitalisation roadmap for the Global South (14/12/2022)

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of many economies in the Global South. To accelerate and support the digital transition of Global South SMEs, national governments and multilateral organisations should design a ‘digitalisation roadmap’.

Promoting SME Competitiveness in Colombia: Towards an inclusive and sustainable future (04/01/2023)

Colombia’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a central role in building economic resilience, creating jobs and driving inclusive growth. This report shows that Colombian firms that innovate and engage with industry associations invest more in addressing climate change.

Promoting SME Competitiveness in Eswatini: Stronger business fundamentals for value-added exports (04/01/2023)

Small firms are at the heart of Eswatini’s participation in international value chains. But they often struggle to trade due to production capacity constraints, including inadequate managerial skills and certification, failure to engage with business support organizations and weak linkages with suppliers and buyers.

Deconstructing the Missing Middle: Informality and Growth of Firms in Sub-Saharan Africa (07/01/2023)

This paper characterizes the firm size distribution by exploiting establishment-level censuses covering both formal and informal firms in Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper finds a “missing middle” in the employment-based size distribution of firms in four Sub-Saharan African countries.

AI in Africa: Key Concerns and Policy Considerations for the Future of the Continent (04/01/2023)

To support local artificial intelligence (AI) capacity favouring local economies and ecosystems, policy responses to AI in Africa should build on national digital agendas and prioritise inclusive digital, data and computing infrastructure and skills development.

Recommendations to Smart Africa Alliance Member Countries to address Digital Infrastructure Financing (14/12/2022)

After several decades of digitalization in Africa, there is a real change in the ecosystem in Africa from traditional uses to current uses that integrate the use of OTT (Over The Top) applications. This new configuration of use of digital tools has highlighted the limits of traditional investments which have enabled the establishment of networks that have allowed Africa to move from general isolation to inclusion in the digital world.

Policy Options for Broadband Infrastructure Strategies : A Simulation Model for Affordable Universal Broadband in Africa (23/12/2022)

Goal 9 of the Sustainable Development Goals aims to provide universal affordable broadband globally by 2030. However, a lack of data, combined with few independent and scientifically reproducible assessments, makes it challenging for governments to make strategic choices to achieve this target.

Exporting the Tools of Dictatorship: The Politics of China’s Technology Transfers to Africa (19/12/2022)

The Chinese government is revolutionizing digital surveillance at home. Are digital technology transfers from Huawei, China’s leading information technology company, enabling recipient governments to expand their digital surveillance operations and engage in more targeted repression against dissidents? To answer this question, this paper focus on the African continent, which has received nearly half of all global Huawei technology transfers.

Chinese telecommunications companies in Africa: alignment with African countries’ interests in developing their ICT sector? (05/01/2023)

This policy brief discusses whether, in the development of the African ICT sector, there is an alignment between Chinese telecom companies’ engagement in Africa and the interests of African countries.

Enhancing digital G2P transfer capacities in the Asian LDCs (29/12/2022)

Digital payments can offer multiple benefits to various stakeholders, including governments, recipients, and service providers. Digital payments are a driver of financial inclusion, with payments often serving as a gateway to account ownerships and access to savings and loan products.

Science, technology and innovation for sustainable development: Lessons from the Caribbean’s energy transition (08/01/2023)

Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) is important in advancing sustainable development across the globe. One approach available to countries to promote their sustainable development agendas is the advancement of STI to support the adoption of renewable energy technologies.

Uso estratégico y responsable de la inteligencia artificial en el sector público de América Latina y el Caribe (08/01/2023)

Los gobiernos pueden utilizar la inteligencia artificial (IA) para diseñar mejores políticas, tomar decisiones más acertadas y específicas y mejorar la comunicación con los ciudadanos y la calidad de los servicios públicos. La región de América Latina y el Caribe está tratando de aprovechar el potencial de la IA para promover la transformación digital del sector público.

World Trade Statistical Review 2022 (04/01/2023)

World Trade Statistical Review 2022 looks into the latest developments in world trade, with a detailed analysis of the most recent trends for trade in goods and services.

Trade Profiles 2022 (04/01/2023)

Trade Profiles 2022 provides a series of key indicators on trade in goods and services for 197 economies. The information is available for all WTO members and observers and for other selected economies.

The State of Sustainable Markets 2022: Statistics and Emerging Trends (04/01/2023)

This sixth global report provides data about 14 major sustainability standards for bananas, cocoa, coffee, cotton, forestry products, oil palm, soybeans, sugarcane and tea. Features of the current market context are continued, but there was slower growth or even decline for some commodities and standards, as well as continued dominance in some sectors of single-sector standards.

Asia-Pacific Trade Agreement : an evolving preferential regional trade agreement (29/12/2022)

This book provides an overview of the Asia Pacific Trade Agreement, analyses the economic and trade performance of the APTA Participating States within and outside the regional block, and also explores the potential of joining new members from the neighbouring regions.

Trade Finance in West Africa (04/01/2023)

Trade finance — credit facilities used by importers and exporters to transact business — is routinely provided by banks to importers and exporters in advanced economies but developing countries face chronic shortages. This publication focuses specifically on the situation in the four largest economies in the Economic Community of West African States: Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal.

Scarcity Nationalism during COVID-19 : Identifying the Impact on Trade Costs (06/01/2023)

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries used export and import policy as a tool to expand the availability of scarce critical medical products in the domestic market (scarcity nationalism). This paper assesses the direct and indirect (via trade in intermediates) increases in trade costs of critical medical goods resulting from these uncooperative policies.

Participation and marginalization in water governance: probing the agency of powerholders (09/01/2023)

There is growing awareness that both the practice and science of participation in water governance continue to suffer from blind spots with regard to questions of power and equity. This article presents an analytical frame that helps explore how participatory processes initiated by water reforms can better address the needs and interests of marginalized groups.

Markets and misfits in adaptive water governance: how agricultural markets shape water conflict and cooperation (09/01/2023)

Agricultural trade poses dilemmas for adaptive water governance as farmers and irrigation systems become integrated into global food value chains and are affected by their ongoing dynamics.

Safe Water and Sanitation for a Healthier World: A Global View of Progress Towards SDG 6 (08/01/2023)

This volume presents a review of global progress made towards achieving Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6): Clean Water and Sanitation, part of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The book details how SDG 6 is being approached in a number of geographic regions, with each chapter describing developments in a particular region or country.

Water and Sanitation as Human Rights: Have They Strengthened Marginalized Peoples' Claim for Access? (08/01/2023)

This book investigates the impact of the United Nations General Assembly's 2010 resolution that elevated rights to water and sanitation are stand-alone international human rights. A major goal of creating this new human right was to incentivize governments to prioritize and pursue policies to improve access to affordable, potable water to the more than 750 million people worldwide who lacked access, as well as to provide the more than 2.5 billion people with inadequate sanitation.

Los desafíos de los recursos hídricos en América Latina (30/12/2022)

La situación actual de los recursos hídricos tanto a nivel mundial como específicamente en América Latina es de una acusada disminución de su disponibilidad per cápita. Tras el examen de la situación actual de los recursos hídricos y de sus diferentes usos, el objeto concreto de esta obra lo constituye el análisis de los desafíos que estos presentan en el espacio latinoamericano y las correspondientes propuestas de medidas que contribuirán a superarlos.

Africa Visa Openness Index 2022 (20/12/2022)

The Africa Visa Openness Index has tracked the evolution of visa regimes on the African continent from before the pandemic to today. As the 2022 report shows, African countries are dismantling many of the measures imposed during the pandemic. Indeed, on the whole, the continent has returned to a level of visa openness last seen just before the pandemic began.

Burkina Faso: El año de los golpes de Estado en el país de los hombres íntegros (03/01/2023)

Un segundo golpe de Estado sacudió Burkina Faso en 2022. El capitán Ibrahim Traoré tomó el poder acusando al hasta entonces presidente, el también golpista Paul-Henri S. Damiba, de incapacidad para hacer frente a la crisis multidimensional que sufre el llamado «país de los hombres íntegros». La falta de recursos, diez años de contraterrorismo falido, y la institucionalización del discurso antifrancés han actuado como instrumentos de la nueva asonada.

Boosting productivity to improve living standards in South Africa (08/01/2023)

Productivity growth has been falling for a decade, hindering improvements in living standards. Low productivity reflects, firstly, poor infrastructure in telecommunications and transport.

Chad’s Transition: Easing Tensions Online (08/01/2023)

Chadians’ growing use of social media could prove a boon for the country’s political transition, but it could also fuel violence offline. With donor backing, authorities, civil society, online platforms and influencers should work to ensure social media remains a space for democratic debate rather than an accelerator of conflict.

Realigning and Repositioning Africa (07/01/2023)

One of the challenges facing the continent of Africa is the continued marginalization it experiences in terms of its global political, economic and socio-culutral significance. This book, based on a collection of original essays from academics in Africa and across the African diaspora, seeks to address some of these concerns by positing Afri-centric expositions. The central theme of this book is the need for African perspectives and solutions to tackle African challenges, and for the realigning and repositioning of Africa.

South Asia's Path to Resilient Growth (02/01/2023)

This report highlights the remarkable development progress in South Asia and how the region can advance in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Steps include a renewed push toward greater trade and financial openness, while responding proactively to the distributional impact and dislocation associated with this structural transformation.

2022 ESCAP population data sheet (29/12/2022)

The Population Data Sheet, published annually by ESCAP, features a range of key indicators on population and development. The focus is on population size, structure and growth rates, as well as fertility, mortality and migration, at country, subregional and regional levels.

Afghanistan: spotlight on social impact July to October 2022 (19/12/2022)

This report provides a pulse on intersectional vulnerabilities experienced by Afghans during a given period. The analysis focuses on events that emerged as important based on what is being discussed by Afghans and humanitarian responders.

Afghanistan: forward-looking snapshot of the Afghan economy (06/01/2023)

This brief identifies factors constraining the Afghan economy and three scenarios, considering how changes to these constraints could affect the recovery of the economy.

Summary of "Afghanistan. Risk Overview” (09/06/2022)

This document is a summary of a risk report on Afghanistan published by ACAPS in September 2022.

Central Asia's Economic Rebirth in the Shadow of the New Great Game (07/01/2023)

This volume describes the unique development of Central Asia as defined by its landlocked geography. Particular attention is paid to the achievements and challenges of the region's post-Soviet economic and political transformation, as well as to its relationship with the participants in the New Great Game - Russia, China and the West.

Estratificación y clases sociales en América Latina: dinámicas y características en las dos primeras décadas del siglo XXI (08/01/2023)

Con este trabajo se busca contribuir a los análisis sobre estratificación y clases sociales en la región en las últimas dos décadas, en un contexto de crisis prolongadas que sin lugar a duda ha marcado un punto de quiebre en las tendencias regionales de reducción de pobreza, vulnerabilidad, desigualdad y orientaciones de políticas sociales.

¿Lazos incondicionales? Restaurar las relaciones entre Venezuela y Colombia (13/12/2022)

Bogotá y Caracas están otra vez en buenos términos después de un período de disputas. Sus intereses pueden no estar siempre alineados en los años que vengan, pero con diplomacia hábil y ayuda de los vecinos, los dos países pueden reparar sus vínculos para beneficio mutuo.

Development Strategy Assessment of the Eastern Caribbean (28/12/2022)

Eastern Caribbean countries enjoy rich natural endowments and have achieved significant economic development. Throughout the last decades, they have also been confronted with a number of rising economic, social and environmental challenges.

Multi-dimensional Review of the Dominican Republic (28/12/2022)

The Dominican Republic has made strides on many socioeconomic fronts over the years. The country has been one of the leading economies in Latin America and the Caribbean in terms of GDP growth, reaching upper middle-income status in 2011. However, progress on the different dimensions of well-being has been insufficient

El giro a la izquierda en America Latina (08/01/2023)

En América Latina, al despuntar el siglo XXI, después del ciclo de reformas liberales de los años 1990 y en como una de sus consecuencias, se produjo un acontecimiento extraordinario: el «giro hacia la izquierda», la mentada «marea rosa» (pink tide), que lleva a la instalación de gobiernos de izquierda o centro izquierda en un buen número de países de la región.

Ukraine - Country report (02/01/2023)

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues to have a devastating social and economic impact on the country. Civilian casualties are mounting, over a third of the population has been displaced, and access to basic needs such as electricity, water, and heating are at risk while winter is coming.

Answering Four Hard Questions About Russia’s War in Ukraine (13/12/2022)

Russia’s war in Ukraine is taking a terrible toll. The Western response nonetheless remains the right one. NATO capitals should continue supporting Kyiv, while avoiding direct conflict with Moscow and keeping the door open to talks.

Defend. Resist. Repeat: Ukraine’s lessons for European defence (20/12/2022)

EU member states can learn from Ukraine’s experiences, but this should be a two-way street – with European countries continuing to supply weapons and provide training to Ukraine, and gaining real-world wartime insights in return.

Ripple effects of the conflict in Ukraine: Truths & myths (23/12/2022)

This report provides a commentary on relevant datasets (mainly on food prices and food inflation) as it examines trends related to the economic effects of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine on selected countries in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.

Turning to regions and local governments to rebuild Ukraine (08/01/2023)

This policy response highlights how Ukraine’s regional development and decentralisation reforms, adopted after the 2014 Maidan Revolution, have contributed to the resilience of the country’s regions and municipalities following Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine

Belarusians’ media consumption, attitudes to mobilization and political identities (20/12/2022)

According to this report, State media viewers are the largest segment of the Belarusian audience (33%), although in terms of credibility these sources are the most controversial. About a quarter of the audience (24%) prefer non-state media and almost the same number (25%) use both types of sources.

Cold winter: How the EU can help Moldova survive Russian pressure and protect its democracy (20/12/2022)

Moldova occupies a significant geostrategic position with regard to the war in Ukraine, as a key ally and neighbour to that country’s immediate west. The country remains highly vulnerable to Russian pressure but financial assistance in the short term and support for reform in the long term will help it make progress, including towards eventual EU membership.

Tunisian economy in free fall (03/01/2023)

Tunisia’s economy is falling off and the country has become less attractive to foreign investors. Despite the agreement reached in October by the Tunisian authorities with the International Monetary Fund on an extended facility to support macroeconomic stability, the country is confronting a very serious crisis.

How Huthi-Saudi Negotiations Will Make or Break Yemen (08/01/2023)

After nearly eight years of war in Yemen, talks are under way between the Huthi rebels and Saudi Arabia. Yet, by themselves, these discussions cannot bring hostilities to a close. The UN should begin laying the groundwork for negotiations that include all the conflict parties.

Pacific perspectives 2022 : accelerating climate action (29/12/2022)

The Pacific region is at a crossroads. The advancement of the Sustainable Development Goals aspirations across all sectors are facing the test of international solidarity. The Pacific Small Island Developing States (PSIDS) contribute less than 0.03% of the world’s total greenhouse gas emissions but are amongst the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.

The Social Protection Indicator for the Pacific: Tracking Developments in Social Protection (07/01/2023)

This report presents an analysis of 2018 social protection data from 14 Pacific developing member countries. It identifies measures adopted in response to the coronavirus disease pandemic and outlines future directions for social protection in the Pacific region.

Delivering the Belt and Road: Decoding the supply of and demand for Chinese overseas development projects (16/12/2022)

This report examines how Beijing’s funding priorities have changed in the era of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Using a dataset of over 13,000 Chinese state-financed development projects between 2000 and 2017, it compares financing for projects that are substantively BRI-like in their intent, regardless of when they occurred or whether they involved a BRI member country.

Why Africa matters to the United States: Top 5 reasons (13/12/2022)

For years, U.S. engagement in Africa has emphasized poverty reduction, foreign aid, and addressing conflict and insecurity. While critically important, these priorities have not fully kept pace with dramatic changes occurring across the region, as Africa today has emerged as one of the world’s premier destinations for cutting-edge innovation and inspiring entrepreneurship

Gender-Responsive Procurement in Asia and the Pacific: An Opportunity for an Equitable Economic Future (11/12/2022)

This report shows how taking a gender-responsive approach to procurement that centers on buying from women-owned businesses can mainstream gender into trade to build more sustainable markets for women entrepreneurs in Asia and the Pacific.

Congolais cherchent démocrates : entre soif de redevabilité et insatisfaction sociale (28/11/2022)

Trois ans et demi après l’arrivée à la présidence de Félix Tshisekedi, la confiance à l’égard du gouvernement et des institutions en RDC demeure faible. Entre-temps, la situation sécuritaire dans l’est du pays, elle aussi, continue de se dégrader avec, notamment, la résurgence du Mouvement du 23 mars. Ce nouveau rapport sondage relève une méfiance persistante à l’égard des institutions ainsi qu’une politique sécuritaire décriée.

Connections that Matter: How the Quality of Governance Institutions may be the Booster Shot we need to reduce Poverty and Inequality (06/12/2022)

Current global crises are complex. Tackling issues separately or in sequence will be futile. Transformation can happen only when multiple issues are tackled at the same time. To help do so, this study investigates how aspects of SDG 16 that are considered critical features of governance institutions – transparency, accountability and inclusion – help or hinder progress on key dimensions of SDG 1 on poverty and SDG 10 on inequality.

Decentralization, Local Governance, and Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals in Asia and the Pacific (11/12/2022)

Subnational governments implement public policies, facilitate partnerships among stakeholders, and act as interlocutors between communities and the state. Many national SDG targets will not be achievable without their full involvement. This volume discusses how to foster an enabling environment to help subnational governments realize their potential in addressing development challenges, and includes analysis of particular country contexts

Working Together for Development Results: Lessons from ADB and Civil Society Organization Engagement in South Asia (11/12/2022)

This publication shows how ADB continues to explore new ways to deepen its relationship with civil society organizations and increase the impact of its development projects in South Asia.

La délivrance des biens d’intérêt général en Afrique. Pratiques palliatives, réformes de l’État et communs (09/12/2022)

En Afrique, différentes institutions (modes de gouvernance) délivrent des biens d’intérêt général, chacune selon ses propres règles du jeu et normes pratiques : l’État, l’aide au développement, les associations, les municipalités, les chefferies, les structures religieuses, les mécènes et le secteur privé.

Dangerous inequalities: World AIDS Day report 2022 (01/12/2022)

This report unpacks the impact that gender inequalities, inequalities faced by key populations, and inequalities between children and adults have had on the AIDS response. It is not inevitable, however, that these inequalities will slow progress towards ending AIDS.

Pandemic triad: HIV, COVID-19 and debt in developing countries (01/12/2022)

This report analyses the intersection of HIV, COVID-19 and public debt in developing countries. The collision between COVID-19 and a crippling debt crisis have reversed decades of progress - putting present and future investments in health and HIV at risk. Pragmatic options to address the pandemic triad are proposed.

Health at a Glance: Asia/Pacific. Measuring Progress Towards Universal Health Coverage (05/12/2022)

This report presents a set of key indicators of health status, the determinants of health, health-care resources and utilisation, health-care expenditure and financing, and quality of care across 27 Asia-Pacific countries and territories. It also provides a series of dashboards to compare performance across countries and territories, and a thematic analysis on the health impact of COVID-19.

Migration and Health: Addressing Current Health Challenges of Migrants and Refugees in Africa - from Policy to Practice (17/11/2022)

This study report wants to inform policy and practice in migration and health and ultimately improve health outcomes for different migrant and refugee groups in Africa. It provides a scoping review of available literature at the international, continental, and regional levels, as well as in 15 African countries.

Investigating Initial Policy Responses to COVID-19: Evidence Across 59 Countries (18/11/2022)

The present report conducts a review of different support measures adopted by 59 countries as an immediate response to the COVID-19 pandemic using an inclusive development lens across five key areas – health and safety, welfare, finance and credit, taxes and fees and structural measures.

COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Partnership - Situation Report October 2022 (23/11/2022)

While the vaccination momentum slows down globally, there still is steady progress among the 34 countries for concerted support. In October, Rwanda became the first African country to reach the 70% global target, and Zambia the first country with below 10% coverage in January to exceed 40% primary series coverage.

Global health sector strategies on, respectively, HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections for the period 2022-2030 (25/11/2022)

The present report guide the health sector in implementing strategically focused responses to achieve the goals of ending AIDS, viral hepatitis B and C and sexually transmitted infections by 2030. The strategies call for a precise focus to reach the people most affected and at risk for each disease that addresses inequities.

Expanding Choices – Ensuring Rights in a Diverse and Changing World. UNFPA Strategy for Family Planning, 2022-2030 (29/11/2022)

As the world changes all around us, achieving universal access to family planning takes on new urgency. Access to sexual and reproductive health, including family planning, is central to the ability of everyone, everywhere, to exercise their right to choice, bodily autonomy and agency. Half of all pregnancies are unintended – this is a human rights crisis.

Global Oral Health Status Report (25/11/2022)

The report shows that almost half of the world’s population (45% or 3.5 billion people) suffer from oral diseases, with 3 out of every 4 affected people living in low- and middle-income countries. Global cases of oral diseases have increased by 1 billion over the last 30 years—a clear indication that many people do not have access to prevention and treatment of oral diseases.

The Economics of Electric Vehicles for Passenger Transportation (08/12/2022)

This report finds that electric mobility is increasingly relevant for low- and middle-income countries. As of today, electric mobility for passengers is a comparative rarity across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). In some of the LMIC leading markets, electric vehicles account for less than 0.5 percent of total sales.

Developing Airport Systems in Asian Cities: Spatial Characteristics, Economic Effects, and Policy Implications (12/12/2022)

This report reviews airport system development in Asian megacities and provides policy recommendations to support cities’ economic competitiveness, growth, and sustainability.

Building Resilience of the Urban Poor: Recommendations for Systemic Change (08/12/2022)

This report explains how rising climate and disaster risk can increase the vulnerability of Asia and the Pacific region’s urban poor and how engendering systemic change can strengthen their resilience.

Intermediary Cities and Climate Change: An Opportunity for Sustainable Development (10/12/2022)

Cities with fewer than 1 million inhabitants accounted for 58% of the urban population in less developed regions in 2020, and will still account for 53% by 2035. These cities are often overlooked in national, regional and urban development policies. Given the urgency of the climate challenge, they deserve increased attention.

Global Review of Smart City Governance Practices (09/12/2022)

Through smart city initiatives, digital technologies are increasingly applied in cities to modernize city operations and transform service delivery. The ongoing digital transformation provides new opportunities but also creates challenges, and it is increasingly apparent that delivering effective urban digital services is a complex task

2022 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction (08/12/2022)

This report provides an annual snapshot of the progress of the buildings and construction sector on a global scale and reviews the status of policies, finance, technologies, and solutions to monitor whether the sector is aligned with the Paris Agreement goals. It also provides stakeholders with evidence to persuade policymakers and the overall buildings and construction community to take action.

Transport and Mobility Futures in Urban Africa (06/12/2022)

This book provides a collection of insightful conceptual and empirical works that situate transport and mobility challenges in the unique context of individual countries and cities while highlighting commonalities across the African continent. Written from an interdisciplinary perspective, the book covers important themes in transport and mobility including the links between urbanization, urban structure, and accessibility; transport equity and poverty, non-motorized transport, public transport, and the challenges and opportunities of new and emerging transport technologies, and ICT-mediated mobility solutions.

The future of African migration and mobility. Continent on the move, or contained? (29/11/2022)

With Covid-19-related travel restrictions curtailed or lifted in most African countries, the issue of population movement and migratory flows – both within Africa and towards other regions, including the Middle East and Europe – has returned to the forefront of policy debates in the continent. The number of migrants is also increasing and may even exceed pre-pandemic levels.

50,000 lives lost during migration: Analysis of missing migrants project . Data 2014–2022 (29/11/2022)

According to this new report, since 2014 more than 50,000 people worldwide have lost their lives during their migratory journeys. Despite the increasing loss of life, little action has been taken by governments in countries of origin, transit, and destination to address the ongoing global crisis of missing migrants.

Regional Spillovers from the Venezuelan Crisis: Migration Flows and Their Impact on Latin America and the Caribbean (07/12/2022)

The purpose of this paper is to also highlight the ongoing migration crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) due to Venezuela’s economic collapse. The stock of Venezuelan migrants reached 5 million in 2019, most of which had settled in other LAC countries. Following a temporary halt during the pandemic, migration from Venezuela has resumed, with the stock of migrants reaching 6.1 million in 2021.

Colombia’s Support for Venezuelan Migrants and Refugees: President Petro reaffirms commitment to integration, but continued progress requires more international support (28/11/2022)

This policy brief explores the commendable policy efforts made by successive Colombia administrations to pursue economic and social integration of Venezuelan migrants and refugees in the face of crisis and calls for the international community to increase its financial support for Colombia’s response to the Venezuelan migration situation.

Democratic Republic of Congo: Displacement in Nyiragongo and Rutshuru, North Kivu (30/11/2022)

Since March 2022, the armed group March 23 Movement (M23) has been launching offensives in North Kivu in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with at least 340,000 people displaced. Since 20 October, the conflict has considerably escalated. Approximately 679,000 people will need assistance as a result of the fighting. The needs are high across all sectors, especially shelter, health, and protection.

Disaster Displacement: Nepal Country Briefing (11/12/2022)

This Nepal country briefing explains why events including monsoon floods, droughts, landslides, and earthquakes force thousands of people to leave their homes each year and shows how stronger data can support prevention and preparedness.

The Business in Africa Narrative Report (16/11/2022)

This report investigates news and content about business in Africa and the impact of perceptions about Africa as a business and investment destination. It also identifies information and news gaps that offer alternative framing for business in Africa.

Africa Industrialization Index 2022 (02/12/2022)

Industrialization is central to Africa’s development prospects. With its young labour force, abundant natural resources and fast-growing internal markets. Africa has the potential to become the next global frontier for industrial development.

Asia Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Monitor 2022: Volume I—Country and Regional Reviews (11/12/2022)

This volume provides data and analysis on micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in Central and West Asia to help policymakers support the development of these businesses.

Asia Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Monitor 2022: Volume II—The Russian Invasion of Ukraine and Its Impact on Small Firms in Central and West Asia (11/12/2022)

This thematic volume shows how the Russian invasion of Ukraine and related sanctions are affecting micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises in Central and West Asia and suggests policy responses to mitigate the impact.

Engaging the European private sector in EU development cooperation and finance (06/12/2022)

Europe’s private sector should help deliver on the objectives of the EU’s Global Gateway strategy. This paper looks at how the EU can best engage the private sector in its development policy and financial set-up.

The EU Global Gateway – One year in: How to partner with the private sector? (06/12/2022)

The EU seeks to engage more actively with the private sector in the Global Strategy. Mobilising the private sector takes many forms. The EU engages the private sector in public-private policy dialogues to improve the business environment in development and foster conducive investment policies and strategies. It can also support business development and micro, small and medium-sized enterprises.

The Global Gateway and the EU as a digital actor in Africa (01/12/2022)

The EU’s approach to digital in its external action is evolving, driven by a combination of global geopolitics and an externalisation of domestic policy priorities. This briefing explores the EU’s changing approach and argue that the Global Gateway strategy has the ingredients to help make Team Europe a geopolitical actor in the digital area.

AI cooperation on the ground: AI research and development on a global scale (30/11/2022)

The Forum for Cooperation on Artificial Intelligence has investigated opportunities and obstacles for international cooperation to foster development of responsible artificial intelligence (AI).1 It has brought together officials from seven governments (Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and United States) with experts from industry, academia, and civil society to explore similarities and differences in national policies on AI, avenues of international cooperation, ecosystems of AI research and development, and AI standards development among other issues.

Digitalisation and democracy: Is Africa’s governance charter fit for the digital era? (16/11/2022)

Digital technologies have had a huge impact on governance around the globe. While increasing access to communication technologies has made it easier for citizens to mobilise politically, it also presents security risks. Social media platforms, for instance, are increasingly used to amplify and disseminate hate speech and incite violence.

SADC Futures of Digital Geopolitics: Towards African Digital Sovereignty (30/11/2022)

The digitisation of data – spurred on by the Fourth Industrial Revolution – presents the Southern African region with very real opportunities for developmental leapfrogging. In order for Africa to break the historical chains that confine it to a subsidiary position in global supply chains, it will have to sequence digital development on its own terms, driven by its developmental needs and to further digital democracy.

Fintech in sub-Saharan Africa (29/11/2022)

This paper traces the development of fintech in sub-Saharan Africa, its evolution over time, and the unfolding benefits attained at each stage of its adoption and market evolution.

Cross-border data flows in Africa: Policy considerations for the AfCFTA Protocol on Digital Trade (17/11/2022)

The regulation of cross-border data flows has come to the fore fairly recently possibly impacting international trade, economic development and other non-economic issues such as protecting the privacy of the individuals who interact within the digital and data economies. In the African context, negotiations on an African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Digital Trade Protocol, i.e., within the AfCFTA framework for establishing a single market on the African continent, are currently underway.

Unlocking the Potential of Digital Services Trade in Asia and the Pacific (12/12/2022)

This book explains how rapid digitalization during COVID-19 has accelerated the growth of digital services trade in Asia and the Pacific, and provides analysis on the opportunities, challenges, and associated risks.

Digitalisation of public services in Benin: challenges and opportunities (29/11/2022)

This paper presents the case of Benin, where huge investments have been made in national ICT infrastructure and electricity extension, and a national portal for the provision of public services makes it possible for citizens to access more than 560 public services online. However, investments have concentrated more in cities, while more than 50% of Benin’s population still lives in rural areas with limited access to internet and electricity.

Including Basic Services in Africa’s Digitalization Agenda: Evidence from Uganda (29/11/2022)

This paper presents the case of Uganda, where the government developed a Digital Uganda Vision for universal inclusion, sustainable development, economic progress and poverty eradication through digital innovation by 2040. But insufficient access to electricity and the internet (only half of Ugandan households are served by the electricity grid, and only 9% of people living in rural areas have access to the internet), as well as a lack of digital knowledge and skills amongst citizens, results in under usage of digital services.

Compétitivité des PME en Afrique francophone 2022: Promouvoir la transformation numérique (05/12/2022)

Les technologies numériques offrent de réels avantages aux entreprises en Afrique francophone, comme une meilleure communication avec les partenaires de la chaîne de valeur ou une augmentation des ventes. Cependant, de mauvaises et coûteuses connexions internet, ainsi que des inégalités dans l'utilisation des équipements, conduisent à un engagement inégal dans l'économie numérique.

Africa–Europe Cooperation and Digital Transformation (22/11/2022)

Digitalisation and digital technologies are not only essential for building competitive and dynamic economies; they transform societies, pose immense challenges for policymakers, and increasingly play a pivotal role in global power relations. Digital transformations have had catalytic effects on African and European governance, economies, and societies, and will continue to do so. The COVID-19 pandemic has already accelerated the penetration of digital tools all over the globe and is likely to be perceived as a critical juncture in how and to what purpose the world accepts and uses new and emerging technologies. This book offers a holistic analysis of how Africa and Europe can manage and harness digital transformation as partners in a globalised world.

Météorologie de l'espace en Afrique (22/11/2022)

Cet ouvrage présente les travaux de recherche développés au Burkina Faso avec la constitution d'une équipe de recherche. Il examine aussi le développement de la météorologie de l'Espace en Afrique : cette discipline vise à prévoir l'impact des tempêtes solaires sur les nouvelles technologies, comme les liaisons entre les satellites et la Terre.

World Trade Report 2022: Climate Change and International Trade (10/12/2022)

The 2022 edition of this report presents new analysis and recommendations on how international trade and greater cooperation can amplify global efforts to address climate change and put the planet on a sustainable trajectory. It also examines the consequences of climate change on trading patterns and future prosperity.

Potential trade implications of Latin America and the Caribbean’s climate commitments under the Paris Agreement (12/12/2022)

In seeking to understand the trade implications of climate change mitigation in Latin America and the Caribbean, this paper will focus on identifying trade-relevant content from them in a relevant content in two general categories: first, measures impacting expenditure on capital and durable goods imports, and second, measures impacting revenue (as a function of output and cost competitiveness) from key exports, mainly those classified as raw materials.

World Trade Statistical Review 2022 (10/12/2022)

The present report looks at the effects of COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine on the global economy, commodity prices, international trade in goods and services, and supply chains.

Deglobalisation and Protectionism (17/11/2022)

Trade in goods has slowed markedly since the global financial crisis (GFC), but there is no deglobalisation: most countries have seen increased international integration across nearly all goods, services and factor markets. Despite some dramatic instances, protectionism has largely been kept at bay and trade in goods remains quite free, perhaps freer than it was before the GFC. The proliferation and deepening of free trade agreements have contributed to this outcome.

Made by Africa (02/12/2022)

Pharmaceuticals, baby food, cotton clothing and cars are the four focus value chains of this report. Together they are poised to increase intraregional trade in Africa and create jobs for women and youth. The sectors were selected from 94 promising value chains and reflect African goals to improve food security, health and tech skills – making them strategic choices for governments and investors.

Free trade and mobility in Africa: what is at stake? (25/11/2022)

Free trade and the free movement of people are both crucial for Africa’s long-term development. Although they are complementary, governments show more political will for implementing free trade than allowing free movement of people. This policy brief explores the relationship between the African Continental Free Trade Area and the movement of people.

Regional Organisations and Africa's Development Challenges (01/12/2022)

Achieving the aspirations and goals of Agenda 2063, Africa’s master plan for development, requires cooperation, coordination, and harmonisation of the rich diversity of regional organisations (ROs) on the continent. This study covers all pan-African and regional intergovernmental organisations with an African membership constituency, ranging from the African Union and the Regional Economic Communities to all task-specific ROs, such as the Inter-African Coffee Organization.

Heyday of Asian Regionalism? The Implications of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership for the United States (30/11/2022)

This paper analyses the implications of the entry into force of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership for the United States. Traditionally, trade policy has been central to the United States’ aim to position itself as a Pacific power and architect of the evolving regional economic architecture. Over the years, however, US trade strategy has evolved in distinct ways,

Leveraging Benefits of Regional Economic Integration: The Lao People’s Democratic Republic and the Greater Mekong Subregion (11/12/2022)

This report shows how the Lao People's Democratic Republic can leverage its regional position to boost trade, increase agriculture, and harness the power of its cities to promote inclusive and equitable growth.

State of Global Water Resources 2021 (10/12/2022)

The report gives an overview of river flow, as well as major floods and droughts. It provides insights into hotspots for changes in freshwater storage and highlights the crucial role and vulnerability of the cryosphere (snow and ice). The report also shows how large areas of the globe recorded drier than normal conditions in 2021 - a year in which precipitation patterns were influenced by climate change and a La Niña event.

Climate Resilient Water Resources Management (01/12/2022)

Globally, the effects of climate change are already being felt with rising temperatures, droughts, and heatwaves as well as more frequent and severe storm events impacting water quantity and water quality. As such, water managers at all levels of governance, from the city to transboundary river basin level, need to ensure communities are resilient to water scarcity pressures as well as water excesses.

UNICEF Game Plan to Reach Safely Managed Sanitation 2022–2030 (10/12/2022)

Progress towards universal sanitation is alarmingly off track, unevenly distributed between countries, and inadequate to eliminate the inequalities to ensure that the most vulnerable are reached.

Mainstreaming Climate Risks into Rural Sanitation Programming in Lao PDR (18/11/2022)

Despite climate change being a major concern for the sanitation sector, rural sanitation remains neglected in the wider discussions of climate impacts on Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services. Also, the voices of vulnerable individuals, households, and communities who are experiencing the effects of climate change in relation to sanitation issues are missing.

Nature-Based Solutions in Sub-Saharan Africa for Climate and Water Resilience (24/11/2022)

This technical note outlines the methodology used to create a region-wide dataset of projects that have implemented Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) for climate and water-resilience objectives in the World Bank and the African Development Bank. It also demonstrates how these projects are leveraging NBS to address urgent challenges faced by communities in Sub-Saharan Africa, including urban flooding, coastal flooding, and water security.

Kenya. Impact of drought: Turkana and Marsabit counties (10/12/2022)

By mid-2022, the lack of water and pasture had killed 439,400 livestock in Turkana and 273,000 in Marsabit, Kenya. Some water sources, such as boreholes, are no longer functional due to the drought. Because of insufficient resources, the government and humanitarian response remains inadequate to meet the needs of the affected population.

Africa-Europe Foundation High-Level Group Report 2022 (16/11/2022)

The report evidences a deterioration in relations stemming from fault lines that have emerged since 2020; among them, the inequitable responses to the Covid-19 pandemic and the failure to deliver on climate finance, that have highlighted the clear economic and power imbalances between our two continents. However, it further argues that despite, or indeed because of, the shift in global geopolitics, a strong Africa-Europe partnership remains the most effective way to resolve the interconnected crises of inflation, energy access, food insecurity and climate change.

EU-Uganda relations: friction, change, or business as usual? (29/11/2022)

This brief analyses the multilayered frictions in the relations between the EU and Uganda. It shows how the funding of governance and human rights activities by the ‘West’ – and particularly the EU – has put the latter in the spotlight in Uganda. Also, the briefing explains the EU’s limited reaction to governance transgressions by the Museveni regime through Uganda’s geopolitical importance, and because of donors’ internal institutional incentives.

République Démocratique du Congo : Les prémices de la transformation d’un système économique (09/12/2022)

Le modèle économique congolais présente certaines fragilités. Les perspectives d’amélioration de la situation socio-économique sont contraintes par un modèle de croissance encore trop peu diversifié, dont les efforts pour réduire la dépendance aux industries extractives sont pour l’heure limités dans leurs effets et ne suffisent pas à réduire l’exposition du pays aux chocs externes.

L'Église catholique en RDC au milieu du village ou au coeur de la contestation ? (28/11/2022)

L'Église catholique a eu un impact énorme sur le champ politique et la société de la République démocratique du Congo depuis l'époque coloniale. Aujourd'hui, elle est un acteur important de la sphère politique congolaise, jouant un rôle central dans les protestations autour du processus électoral qui ont secoué la nation entre 2015 et 2018.

Lesotho Policy Notes (05/12/2022)

Lesotho witnessed poverty reduction prior to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the subsequent shocks, but the pace was slow, and poverty remained widespread. The pandemic hit while the country was already facing a development challenge; this together with other recent major shocks, such as price inflation and recurrent climate anomalies, have reversed the downward trend in poverty reduction.

Russia–Africa relations in an age of renewed great power competition (29/11/2022)

Rising global tensions, spurred on by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, have challenged Africa’s relationship with Moscow. Africa’s divided response to the conflict is seen by stakeholders across geopolitical divides as either an indication of its commitment to the international rules-based order, or lack thereof.

Yearbook on the African Union (06/12/2022)

The Yearbook on the African Union is first and foremost an academic project that will provide in-depth evaluation and analysis of the institution, its processes, and its engagements. Despite the increased agency in recent years of the African Union in general, and the African Union Commission in particular, little is known – outside expert policy or niche academic circles – about the Union’s activities. This is the gap this book wants to systematically address. It seeks to be a reference point for in-depth research, evidence-based policy-making and decision-making.

La politique étrangère du Bénin - D'hier à aujourd'hui (22/11/2022)

Le Bénin est indépendant depuis plus de 60 ans. Cet ouvrage, qui couvre la période 1960 à 2020, met en lumière les paramètres essentiels qui déterminent la formulation de la politique étrangère du Bénin, le processus décisionnel, la doctrine et le contenu, les permanences et ruptures dans son déploiement, ses principaux résultats, défis et perspectives.

The Comprehensive Asia Development Plan (CADP) 3.0: Towards an Integrated, Innovative, Inclusive, and Sustainable Economy (30/11/2022)

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has caused trade disruptions; a drop in foreign direct investment; and scarring effects on poverty, education, and women in many nations. However, it has also had beneficial features. Factory Asia has continued to produce and export during the pandemic, in contrast with North America and Europe.

Weathering Economic Storms in Central Asia: Initial Impacts of the War in Ukraine (05/12/2022)

Russia’s war against Ukraine and the international sanctions introduced against the former have had an unexpectedly mild impact on Central Asia, despite the region’s deep economic dependence on its northern neighbour.

Uzbekistan's Transition to Inflation Targeting (07/12/2022)

Uzbekistan has significantly improved its monetary policy framework during 2017-21. Nevertheless, the transition to inflation targeting is challenging as the country is going through a period of deep structural reforms.

Ouzbékistan : Réussir une transition multidimensionnelle (09/12/2022)

Des fondamentaux macroéconomiques relativement sains, combinés aux mesures gouvernementales et au soutien financier des bailleurs, ont permis à l’Ouzbékistan de résister au choc de la crise sanitaire. Dans un contexte régional en dégradation sensible depuis un an, le pays affiche une stabilité politique interne.

Treading Lightly: China’s Footprint in a Taliban-led Afghanistan (05/12/2022)

This paper provides a preliminary assessment of China’s attitudes to and policies on Afghanistan since the August 2021 Taliban takeover. While there may be prospects and opportunities for China to contribute to Afghan peace, growth and development, current realities mean that China’s overall approach to Afghanistan will remain cautious, pragmatic and limited.

Observatorio Demográfico de América Latina y el Caribe 2022. Tendencias de la población de América Latina y el Caribe: efectos demográficos de la pandemia de COVID-19 (06/12/2022)

El análisis que presenta este informe permitió estimar el impacto demográfico de la pandemia de enfermedad por coronavirus (COVID-19) en la población de la región. Se destaca la pérdida de 2,9 años de esperanza de vida al nacer entre 2019 y 2021, al pasar de 75,1 años en 2019 a 72,2 años en 2021, lo que convierte a América Latina y el Caribe en la región del mundo que perdió más años de esperanza de vida como consecuencia de la pandemia.

Latin American Economic Outlook 2022 (07/12/2022)

This 15th edition of the Latin American Economic Outlook explores options for the region to recast its production models, transform its energy matrix and create better jobs in the process. It argues that, for this transition to be just, stronger social-protection systems and open dialogue must help build new, sustainable social contracts. In support of this ambitious agenda, the report presents an array of financing options, including green finance, and advocates for renewed international partnerships.

Estudio Económico de América Latina y el Caribe 2022: dinámica y desafíos de la inversión para impulsar una recuperación sostenible e inclusiva (12/12/2022)

Los países de América Latina y el Caribe enfrentan un panorama económico y social muy complejo en 2022. A un mal desempeño del crecimiento económico se suman las fuertes presiones inflacionarias, el bajo dinamismo de la creación de empleo, caídas de la inversión y crecientes demandas sociales. Esta situación se ha traducido en grandes desafíos para la política macroeconómica, que debe conciliar políticas que impulsen la reactivación económica con políticas dirigidas a controlar la inflación y dar sostenibilidad a las finanzas públicas.

Vencer la inflación: el desafío más inmediato para América Latina (06/12/2022)

La inflación se ha convertido en un factor central de la economía mundial. En América Latina la inflación comenzó a aumentar a mitad del 2021, al mismo tiempo que se incrementaba en Estados Unidos. El hecho de que el aumento de la inflación haya sido un fenómeno mundial sincronizado refleja dos causas principales, ambas directamente relacionadas con la pandemia de Covid-19 y la respuesta política asociada.

¿Está América Latina preparada para otro “Momento Volcker”? (09/12/2022)

La aceleración inflacionaria en EEUU y en buena parte de mundo, el endurecimiento repentino y simultáneo de la política monetaria y la subida acelerada en las tasas de interés en los países centrales, y las turbulencias financieras y presiones recesivas globales han llevado a muchos analistas a pronosticar un dominó de reestructuraciones y defaults de deuda externa en los países emergentes y en América Latina, reminiscente de la que ocurrió a principios de los 80 y por razones similares.

La Inversión Extranjera Directa en América Latina y el Caribe 2022 (06/12/2022)

En un contexto de débil recuperación económica, América Latina y el Caribe recibió 142.794 millones de dólares de inversión extranjera directa (IED) en 2021, un 40,7% más que en 2020, pero este crecimiento no fue suficiente para alcanzar los niveles previos a la pandemia,

The Tropical Silk Road: The Future of China in South America (21/11/2022)

This book captures an epochal juncture of two of the world's most transformative processes: the People's Republic of China's rapidly expanding sphere of influence across the global south and the disintegration of the Amazonian, Cerrado, and Andean biomes. Through thirty short essays, this volume brings together an impressive array of contributors, from economists, anthropologists, and political scientists to Black, feminist, and Indigenous community organizers, Chinese stakeholders, environmental activists, and local journalists to offer a pathbreaking analysis of China's presence in South America.

Haïti: De l'indépendance à la dépendance. Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée (02/12/2022)

Le bicentenaire d'Haïti a ramené cet évènement historique sur la scène de l'actualité. La naissance de cette nation composée d'anciens esclaves et de descendants d'esclaves avait été accueillie avec étonnement, inquiétudes et scepticisme, mais ce même « scandale » était pour « les damnés de la servitude » un espoir fulgurant. Aujourd'hui, ce petit pays apparemment isolé dans la Caraïbe est sans cesse qualifié par une formule devenue banale, « le pays le plus pauvre de l'hémisphère ».

Ukraine: humanitarian access analysis - October 2022 (18/11/2022)

The presence of areas not currently under the control of the Government of Ukraine (non-government-controlled areas or NGCAs) and security risks arising from active ground conflict and shelling continue to drive high access constraints for oblasts in the south and east of Ukraine. Nationwide, an escalation of air strikes has damaged critical civilian infrastructure, affecting the delivery of services, especially electricity.

What news from the Ukrainian front? A net assessment (12/12/2022)

The ongoing bombing of Ukraine may create the impression that the war has become hopeless. In addition, the economic and political consequences are making themselves increasingly felt everywhere.

Will Ukraine’s refugees go home? (17/11/2022)

There will be large short-term costs and long-term economic gains from Ukrainian immigration in Europe. The best way to help Ukraine, and to moderate the likely outflow of its people, will be to assist in the country’s reconstruction, and not to place artificial impediments to the immigration of individuals who have already suffered greatly.

Rebuilding Ukraine by Reinforcing Regional and Municipal Governance (05/12/2022)

This report presents an in-depth analysis of Ukraine’s progress in implementing its multi-level governance reforms and explores the role of subnational governments in disaster management.

The Neighborhood Effect : The Imperial Roots of Regional Fracture in Eurasia (21/11/2022)

In an account of Eurasian regional formation that stretches back long before the nation-state, this book refutes the notion that stable regions are the luxury of prosperous, stable, democratic states. It examines case studies from regions once on the fringes of the Habsburg, Ottoman, and Russian Empires to find the often-overlooked patterns of bonding and bridging, or clustering and isolation of political power and social resources, that are associated with regional resilience or fracture in those regions today. With comparative examples from Latin America and Africa, The Neighborhood Effect offers a new explanation for the conflicts we are likely to see emerge as the unipolar US-led order dissolves, making the fractures in regional neighborhoods painfully evident.

Migration circulaire et intermédiation : enseignements tirés de l’expérience des travailleuses marocaines saisonnières en Espagne (29/11/2022)

Le présent travail s’intéresse à la question de l’accompagnement et la réintégration des travailleuses marocaines saisonnières en Espagne. Il met en avance l’existence de déficits à plusieurs niveaux.

Post-conflict Reconstruction in the Nineveh Plains of Iraq: Agriculture, Cultural Practices and Social Cohesion (05/12/2022)

The atrocities committed by the Islamic State (IS) between 2014 and 2017 left deep scars on the Nineveh Plains in northern Iraq. IS deliberately targeted ethnic and religious communities with the aim of erasing the traces of diversity, pluralism and coexistence that have long characterized the region.

Policing the police. The EU’s struggle to strengthen the Libyan security sector (06/12/2022)

More than a decade after Muammar Gaddafi’s fall, Libya’s security sector can best be described as dysfunctional. Libya counts a myriad of armed groups that vie for power and influence, the state lost the monopoly on the use of force long ago, and police and security organisations are more often than not poorly managed. Various efforts have been made to improve the security architecture in Libya – including by the European Union (EU).

Is the technical efficiency green? The environmental efficiency of agricultural production in the MENA region (08/12/2022)

There is widespread recognition of the global environmental impact of agricultural production on greenhouse gas emissions, but evidence is sparse regarding the impact in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. This study treats agricultural emissions as an undesirable output from agricultural production and apply the directional distance function to measure environmentally-adjusted technical efficiency in six countries in the MENA region during the period 1980–2016.

Struggles for Political Change in the Arab World - Regimes, Oppositions, and External Actors after the Spring (21/11/2022)

The advent of the Arab Spring in late 2010 was a hopeful moment for partisans of progressive change throughout the Arab world. Authoritarian leaders who had long stood in the way of meaningful political reform in the countries of the region were either ousted or faced the possibility of political if not physical demise. Throughout the last ten years, however, the Arab world has witnessed authoritarian regimes regaining resilience, pro-democracy movements losing momentum, and struggles between the first and the latter involving regional and international powers. This volume explains how relevant political players in Arab countries among regimes, opposition movements, and external actors have adapted ten years after the onset of the Arab Spring.

Options and Strategies for Planning Water and Climate Security in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (01/12/2022)

Water security is at the front and center of climate change, human security, and sustainable development in regions and communities with competing water usage contexts, climate change effects, and cross-border water-sharing agreements, resulting in conflicts arising. Shared water agreements are affected by geopolitics, segregation, water availability, and access rights. Climate change can worsen water problems by changing precipitation trends or causing droughts.

Transatlantic cooperation on the Indo-Pacific (18/11/2022)

This paper explores the factors enabling or inhibiting transatlantic cooperation, before outlining the priorities, partners and platforms for European and US engagement on and in the Indo-Pacific.

An American strategy for the Indo-Pacific in an age of US-China competition. Enhancing alliances, economic engagement, and regional stability (30/11/2022)

The Indo-Pacific is a dynamic region experiencing a rewiring of the lines of security and economic cooperation, as minilateral networks continue to grow and mega trade agreements take hold. The most significant development in the Indo-Pacific is the emergence of China.

Connecting the Dots : Toward a Social Protection Interoperability Framework in Fiji (05/12/2022)

The Republic of Fiji is home to one of the most sophisticated economies in the Pacific Islands. The recent economic shocks triggered by Coronavirus (COVID-19) as well as several rounds of significant tropical weather events between 2020 and 2022 have highlighted critical systematic challenges in Fiji’s Social Protection system.

España y América Latina: Por qué la inversión y la ayuda internacional necesitan nuevas estrategias (06/12/2022)

Durante las últimas décadas, el vínculo de España con América Latina ha sido inconsistente e improvisado, marcado por fluctuaciones en las inversiones, lazos geopolíticos que han sufrido altibajos, cambios en las prioridades de ayuda y cooperación, salidas empresariales abruptas y debates polémicos. Pero la relación entre España y América Latina también ha sido próspera; definida por los numerosos cambios que se produjeron en la década de 1990, cuando la región comenzó a liberarse de los regímenes autoritarios y experimentó un fuerte vuelco hacia la privatización, mientras España aceleraba su proyección internacional y la Unión Europea (UE) se convertía en un actor clave.

Partner country selection between development narratives and self-interests: A new method for analysing complex donor approaches (06/12/2022)

Partner country (PC) selection lies in the centre of development policy decision-making of donor countries and institutions, and plays a significant role in shaping aid patterns. This paper proposes a comprehensive analysis contrasting donor intentions in PC selection with actual aid flows, having analysed selected members of the Development Assistance Committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, namely, the European Union, France, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.

World Population Prospects 2022 (15/11/2022)

The present report presents world population estimates from 1950 to the present for 237 countries or areas, underpinned by analyses of historical demographic trends. The 2022 revision also presents population projections to the year 2100 that reflect a range of plausible outcomes at the global, regional and national levels. For the first time, the estimates and projections are presented in one-year intervals of age and time instead of the five-year intervals used previously.

A World of 8 Billion (15/11/2022)

On 15 November 2022, the world’s population is projected to reach 8 billion people, having grown by 1 billion since 2010. This is a remarkable milestone given that the human population numbered under 1 billion for millennia until around 1800, and that it took more than 100 years to grow from 1 to 2 billion. By comparison, the increase of the world’s population over the last century has been quite rapid.

Building global prosperity. Proposals for sustainable growth (09/12/2022)

The G7 has launched a partnership designed to help developing countries ‘build back better’ after COVID-19. This ambition is coming up against multiple challenges, but the pandemic created an opportunity to transform international development assistance and promote sustainable economic growth

Strengthening the Geneva 2030 Ecosystem (23/11/2022)

The global challenges we face today are complex interconnected issues that, to be solved, require collaboration across sectors and organizations to support the emergence of innovative solutions through collective thinking and increased efficiency by sharing resources. Geneva, as the host city of many international and non-governmental organizations, plays a key role in nurturing an ecosystem conducive to collaboration for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

Alternative Aid Modalities: Community Development (28/11/2022)

This paper aims to present a case on how to use one tool—community-based approaches for delivering and monitoring aid—in fragile or sanctioned contexts, as community-based local governance type development models have been used successfully in a variety of fragile, conflict, and sanctioned countries.

The three eras of global inequality, 1820-2020 with the focus on the past thirty years (10/12/2022)

The present report has followed three eras of global inequality: the first, from 1820 until 1950; the second, from 1950 to 2000; and the current one of decreasing inequality thanks to the rise of Asian incomes. Whether global inequality will continue on its downward trend depends now much more on changes in India and large African countries than on China.

The 2022 Global Food 50/50 Report: Hungry for gender equality (16/11/2022)

Global food systems organizations are working to address some of the critical issues facing populations’ access to food and nutrition. The second annual Global Food 50/50 Report assesses whether and how such organizations are integrating gender and equality considerations in their work.

The future of food and agriculture – Drivers and triggers for transformation (08/12/2022)

This report aims at inspiring strategic thinking and actions to transform agrifood systems towards a sustainable, resilient and inclusive future. It analyses major drivers of agrifood systems and explores how their trends could determine alternative futures of agrifood, socioeconomic and environmental systems.

Towards a Pan-African Approach to Food Security (16/11/2022)

This brief argues for a pan-African food security initiative that would: 1). encourage free trade in food products between African countries; 2). promote multi-country regional investments in infrastructure to enhance agricultural productivity and resilience to climate change; 3). support public-private partnerships to establish fertilizer factories across the continent; 4). create an African council responsible for coordinating and encouraging agricultural research and development; and 5). support a facility that would ensure vulnerable African countries can finance food imports in times of crisis.

Hacia una seguridad alimentaria y nutricional sostenible en América Latina y el Caribe en respuesta a la crisis alimentaria mundial (12/12/2022)

En este informe se analiza el contexto internacional y cómo las crisis sucesivas, junto con la guerra en Ucrania, están afectando el acceso de América Latina y el Caribe a los alimentos y a insumos claves para la agricultura regional, lo que hace peligrar la seguridad alimentaria de los habitantes de la región, especialmente de la población más vulnerable.

Estado y perspectivas de la seguridad alimentaria y la agricultura familiar tras la pandemia en Colombia (25/11/2022)

El presente análisis de coyuntura se centra en los efectos que tuvo la pandemia sobre la seguridad alimentaria y la agricultura familiar, apoyados en el estudio de caso de dos territorios colombianos, Huila y Nariño.

Investing in sustainable food systems: A methodology and lessons learned from Africa (21/11/2022)

Increased investments in agri-food systems are critical to realising the ambitions of the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement. This requires coordinated actions across a range of policy areas and vast investments, both from public and private financiers. Yet, in developing countries, and particularly in Africa, many farmers, processors and other actors struggle to access the financial resources needed to invest in their agri-food systems.

Rural Policy Review of Colombia 2022 (05/12/2022)

Despite remarkable economic growth over the last two decades, Colombia’s development policy needs to increase its focus on rurality, as regional inequalities remain high by OECD standards and structural challenges still prevent greater development in rural places. This report assesses trends, challenges and opportunities of rural Colombia and examines the country’s rural development policy.

Power / Knowledge / Land - Contested Ontologies of Land and Its Governance in Africa (21/11/2022)

The 2008 outcry over the “global land grab” made headlines around the world, leading to a sustained interest in the dynamics and fate of customary land among both academics and development practitioners. In Power/Knowledge/Land, author Laura German profiles the consolidation of a global knowledge regime surrounding land and its governance within international development circles in the decade following this outcry, and the growing enrollment of previously antagonistic actors within it.

For an effective implementation of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework: what is needed at CBD COP15 and beyond (25/11/2022)

Calls to reinforce global biodiversity governance by strengthening the credibility of the Convention on Biological Diversity and its ability to catalyze actions to halt biodiversity loss have increased. The Global Biodiversity Framework remains the opportunity of the decade to reform one of the most important spheres of the multilateral environmental regime and ultimately deliver much-needed impacts on the ground.

Exploring Nature-Positive Pathways. A contribution to the implementation of the CBD Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (25/11/2022)

To reverse the persistent trend of biodiversity loss to recovery of nature, nature policy needs to be combined with policies on climate mitigation, and food and energy systems must be reformed. This report explores various pathways to achieve global goals for biodiversity, from a global perspective.

Implementing the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework: financial mechanism (25/11/2022)

The biodiversity funding architecture has evolved differently from the climate funding architecture. Climate funding works through the combined action of the GEF, the GCF, and other specialized funds, with the GEF as the main financial mechanism for biodiversity and CBD implementation.

A “Shared Earth” Approach To Put Biodiversity At The Heart Of The Sustainable Development In Africa (09/12/2022)

Biodiversity is a classic example of a global commons. As entering the coming decades of a rapidly changing climate, declining biodiversity, growing human populations and economic growth, sub-Saharan Africa countries are facing an existential challenge to their security and welfare.

Experiencias de integración de la biodiversidad en los sectores productivos, económicos y financieros de América Latina y el Caribe (12/12/2022)

El presente estudio analiza desafíos, oportunidades y lecciones aprendidas en el ámbito de la integración de la biodiversidad en los sectores agrícola, pesquero, forestal, financiero, manufacturero, de la infraestructura y del turismo. Estas experiencias pueden constituir un proceso catalizador de la transición hacia un desarrollo integral como el que se plasma en la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible.

(Green) Capitalism Will Not Save Biodiversity! (06/12/2022)

Scientific evidence is clear, alarming and disappointing. Despite of a growing number of protected areas and market-based instruments biodiversity dropped worldwide by 68% since 1970. Yet, infinite economic growth remains the dominant paradigm despite of devastating impacts on ecosystems. The losses occur elsewhere and remain mostly invisible to us.

How African Media Covers Africa (16/11/2022)

Coverage of African countries in African media not only serves to inform readers what is happening on the continent but may also shape perspectives about the continent and countries therein. The review found that coverage of African countries was poor in terms of overall numbers. A closer look reveals some countries’ media include great amounts of stories and others almost none.

Assessment of media development in Kenya (11/12/2022)

This assessment provides a detailed and reliable baseline evaluation of the Kenyan media sector. Despite a reputation of having one of the most free media systems in sub–Saharan countries, the study found out that there is still much that has to be done in terms of advancing media development in Kenya.

L’usage des arts pour le dialogue environnemental au Sahel (05/12/2022)

L’art a été utilisé pour communiquer les préoccupations environnementales dans les pays sahéliens. Néanmoins, le dialogue dirigé par les arts entre les acteurs politiques et les citoyens est cependant rare, bien qu’il ait le potentiel de trouver des solutions aux problèmes socio-environnementaux complexes.

Économie de la religion en Afrique - Développement récent et trajectoires durables (22/11/2022)

Si elle est une pratique dominante sur le continent depuis des siècles, la religion est pourtant restée longtemps insuffisamment explorée comme objet de recherche pertinent en science économique, alors que, dans d'autres disciplines des sciences humaines et sociales, elle revendique plusieurs années de recherche intense. Cet ouvrage vient combler ce vide. Il propose une synthèse actuelle et à jour des développements récents du fait religieux en Afrique, tout en ouvrant des pistes d'approfondissements.

African Democracy in Crisis (25/11/2022)

Africa is acutely affected by the ongoing global democratic recession. In 2020, a military coup took place in Mali. In 2021, four African countries – Chad, Mali, Guinea, and Sudan - experienced military takeovers. Thus far, in 2022, two coups have occurred in Burkina Faso and an attempted one in Guinea Bissau. Yet polling data and activism on the ground shows African youth believe in and are prepared to fight for democracy.

Children of African descent : report of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent (11/12/2022)

The report concluded that racial discrimination continued to harm children of African descent. It discussed racial discrimination and inequality faced by children of African descent in all areas of life, including administration of justice, law enforcement, education, health, family-regulation systems, and development, as well as redress for legacies of enslavement, colonialism and racial segregation.

“Podemos detener a quien queramos”.Violaciones generalizadas de derechos humanos durante el “régimen de excepción” en El Salvador (09/12/2022)

El presente informe documenta violaciones generalizadas de derechos humanos cometidas durante el régimen de excepción, aun vigente. Estos abusos incluyen detenciones arbitrarias, desapariciones forzadas, torturas y otros malos tratos en prisión, así como violaciones graves del debido proceso. Además, el informe documenta varias muertes ocurridas bajo custodia policial en circunstancias que sugieren responsabilidad del Estado.

Droits humains et développement : les droits de l'enfant (09/12/2022)

C’est très majoritairement durant l’enfance que l’être humain se développe et va forger le potentiel qu’il va utiliser toute sa vie. C’est en raison de cet état de développement continu que les enfants ont des besoins et des vulnérabilités spécifiques qui requièrent une protection et un accompagnement adaptés. Les enfants sont des détenteurs et détentrices de droits à part entière. Pourtant une grande partie d’entre eux à travers le monde sont empêchés d’exercer leurs droits.

Advancing a rights-based approach to climate change resilience and migration in the Sahel (11/12/2022)

In the Sahel region of Africa, as in many other places around the world, climate change is adversely affecting the enjoyment of a broad range of human rights. Individuals and communities in the region are confronted with threats to their livelihoods from degraded lands and declining agricultural production, to their homes and health from ever more frequent floods and other impacts, and to their lives and security from growing conflicts, including over natural resources.

Gabon: rapport national (10/12/2022)

Pour surmonter les difficultés de mise en œuvre des droits de l’homme au niveau national, l’Etat s’est fixé comme priorités de, entre autres, renforcer les organes nationaux de droits de l’homme, renforcer et protéger les droits des groupes vulnérables, instaurer une culture citoyenne des droits de l’homme par la sensibilisation des populations et la vulgarisation des instruments, et assurer la protection des droits l’homme par la sanction des auteurs de violations.

Resumen de las comunicaciones de las partes interesadas sobre el Perú - Informe de la Oficina del Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos (10/12/2022)

El presente informe constituye un resumen de las comunicaciones de 33 partes interesadas para el examen periódico universal, presentadas de forma resumida. Se incluye una sección separada para las contribuciones de la institución nacional de derechos humanos acreditada en plena conformidad con los Principios de París.

Summary of "Public Procurement as an Instrument to Pursue Human Rights Protection" (09/06/2022)

This document is a summary of the chapter 7, written by Sope Williams-Elegbe, of the book "Research Handbook on Global Governance, Business and Human Rights" (eds. Axel Marx, Geert van Calster, Jan Wouters with Kari Otteburn and Diana Lica), published by Edward Elgar Publishing in March 2022.

Youth Ambassadors for Peace: how did they fare? (06/12/2022)

This policy brief reflects on the tenure of the first cohort of African Youth Ambassadors for Peace. Youth ambassadors are integral to the acknowledgement, support and promotion of young people’s contribution, policymakers need to enhance their working relations with Africa’s youth ambassadors.

Panorama Social de América Latina y el Caribe 2022: la transformación de la educación como base para el desarrollo sostenible (06/12/2022)

América Latina y el Caribe atraviesa un complejo escenario de gran incertidumbre, que profundiza los efectos de una crisis social prolongada, con un impacto silencioso y devastador en la educación. En esta edición del Panorama Social de América Latina y el Caribe se aborda como tema central la educación y su lugar en el debate de las políticas para la recuperación en la región.

Global Citizenship Education in the Global South (23/11/2022)

This volume presents a critical discussion that brings contemporary academic debate about ‘southern theory’ to Global Citizenship Education (GCE). It situates the discussion around GCE in the Global South within a critical and post-colonial paradigm informed by the values and knowledge of critical pedagogy ingrained in social justice.

Évolution de la formation des enseignants en Afrique subsaharienne - Étude comparative entre le Sénégal et la France (16/11/2022)

Les systèmes éducatifs africains sont un héritage de l'administration coloniale. Cependant, cet héritage a influencé à des degrés divers les anciennes colonies africaines après leur accession à l'indépendance, en fonction du système d'administration coloniale qu'elles ont connu. Au regard des crises, les jeunes États africains francophones ont impulsé des politiques éducatives centrées sur leurs réalités propres sans se fermer aux apports féconds des autres cultures. Ce travail de recherche participe de cette réorientation des politiques éducatives en Afrique subsaharienne, en s'appuyant sur le cas emblématique du Sénégal, après une immersion de l'auteure dans le système éducatif français

Global Wage Report 2022-23. The impact of COVID-19 and inflation on wages and purchasing power (09/12/2022)

Income inequality and poverty will rise if the purchasing power of the lowest paid is not maintained. In addition, a much-needed post-pandemic recovery could be put at risk. This could fuel further social unrest across the world and undermine the goal of achieving prosperity and peace for all.

Green Jobs for Youth in Africa (29/11/2022)

The green transition has the potential to create a plurality of job opportunities for youth in Africa, but that there is still a long way to go before this potential can be fulfilled. Concerted political will is needed to stimulate green job sectors and green employment and to create realistic pathways to the green economic transition.

Exploring decent work in the pharmaceutical industry: Job creation in the production of medical cannabis in Lesotho and Zimbabwe (10/12/2022)

Is medical cannabis really capable of making a difference for poor countries in terms of growth and job creation? This book seeks to determine whether medical cannabis can indeed create jobs and wealth, notably in comparison with tobacco, for which the medicinal plant is deemed to be a viable substitute crop.

Hidden Potential : Rethinking Informality in South Asia (07/12/2022)

Informality remains widespread in South Asia despite decades of economic growth. The low earnings and high vulnerability in the informal sector make this a major development issue for the region. Yet, there is no consensus on its causes and consequences, with the debate polarized between a view that informality is a problem of regulatory evasion and should be eradicated, and another which equates informality with economic exclusion

La recuperación del empleo en el sector transporte: un viaje a marcha lenta (12/12/2022)

En América Latina y el Caribe el impacto de la crisis económica derivada de la pandemia fue particularmente agudo, con efectos para el sector de transporte que van más allá de los ámbitos productivos y laborales. Dos años después del inicio de la crisis sanitaria que provocó medidas de distanciamiento social sin precedentes históricos, la recuperación de la actividad sectorial es ampliamente desconocida.

Key workers in Malaysia during the pandemic (10/12/2022)

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Malaysian government prioritized health and economic stimulus packages for the sectors considered “key” for the economy and gave little recognition to the workers making contributions to the functioning of daily lives.

The Scramble for Energy (02/12/2022)

A few years ago, in an era of abundant energy supplies, the world’s focus was on curbing fossil-fuel use to achieve net-zero carbon emissions. Today, priorities have shifted amid supply threats and price increases since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. How do nations and their leaders manage the gap between near-term energy needs and the urgent, but longer-term green goals?

Renewables 2022. Analysis and forecast to 2027 (07/12/2022)

The current global energy crisis brings both new opportunities and new challenges for renewable energy. The present report provides analysis on the new policies introduced in response to the energy crisis. This year’s report frames current policy and market dynamics while placing the recent rise in energy prices and energy security challenges in context.

African Union-European Union cooperation on climate and energy: Discussing perspectives on hydrogen and just transitions (05/12/2022)

Hydrogen technologies have been prominent in discussions between the EU and African countries since the 2020 political push for hydrogen in Europe. In theory, cooperation on hydrogen may benefit both continents.

Net-zero plans exclude Africa (21/11/2022)

Africa lacks three essentials — good data, appropriate models and local technical expertise — that are necessary to develop credible, actionable and equitable energy-transition plans. Unless these gaps are filled, the continent cannot engage meaningfully with the net-zero concept and will remain invisible in global climate and energy discussions at COP27, the United Nations climate conference in Egypt, and beyond.

Carbon Pricing for Energy Transition and Decarbonization (11/12/2022)

This report shows how efficient carbon pricing instruments can enable countries in Asia and the Pacific to accelerate their transition to affordable, secure low-carbon energy systems and help reach their ambitious climate targets.

Making the Leap - The need for Just Energy Transition Partnerships (JETPs) to support leapfrogging fossil gas to a clean renewable energy future (23/11/2022)

Just Energy Transition Partnerships (JETPs) are a new funding model created to help South Africa, Indonesia, India, Vietnam, and Senegal transition away from fossil energy and toward clean energy in a way that also addresses social issues associated with such an energy transition.

Production Privée Ou Maîtrise D’ouvrage Publique Pour Accélérer La Réalisation Des Centrales Solaires En Afrique ? (09/12/2022)

L’Afrique, dont les capacités de production solaire photovoltaïque (PV) sont aujourd’hui faibles comparativement aux autres continents, alors que la ressource solaire y est abondante, connaîtra au cours des prochaines années un « changement d’échelle », c’est-à-dire une forte accélération du rythme de réalisation des centrales PV raccordées aux réseaux électriques/

COP27: A Brief Account of Contemporary Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Policies, a View from the South (16/11/2022)

On the outset of the COP27, it is befitting to reflect upon contemporary climate adaptation and mitigation policies, from a southern and African point of view. Indeed, climate change is one of the stickiest policy problems of the 21st century, because it is inherently a global and multidimensional problem entailing a bundle of policy features.

Renewing global climate change action for fragile and developing countries (30/11/2022)

The acceleration of climate change is recognized to have negative impacts on development and security. Its harmful effects are already noticeable, natural disasters are more frequent and catastrophic, and developing countries are more vulnerable. Although climate change is a worldwide phenomenon, poor people and poor countries are more severely affected by its negative effects.

The Triple Dividend of Building Climate Resilience: Taking Stock, Moving Forward (24/11/2022)

This working paper analyzes the full benefits of climate change adaptation investments, divided into three types of dividends. It shows that the benefits that accrue even when the anticipated disaster does not occur are often larger than the “avoided losses” that accrue when disaster does strike. This is important since it shows that the benefits of adaptation investments are often larger than assumed, and don’t always rely on the probabilities of disaster risk.

Building resilience to extreme weather in South Asia (25/11/2022)

Extreme weather – including heatwaves and flooding – appears to be the new normal for South Asia with Pakistan enduring both in 2022. The impacts are numerous and inter-connected, cascading across economic sectors and political geographies. The need to build resilience, learn from best practices and innovate to adapt, is paramount.

Understanding Africa’s climate and human security risks (25/11/2022)

Climate change poses a major threat to human security in Africa. The risk emanates not from climate change per se, but from how climate-related stressors interact with socio-economic, environmental and political factors. This policy brief explores the broader nature of climate risks facing Africa and discusses the need to strengthen climate governance.

On the Macro Impact of Extreme Climate Events in Central America: A Higher Frequency Investigation (07/12/2022)

Central America is one of the world’s most vulnerable regions to extreme climate events. The literature estimates the macroeconomic effects of climate events mainly using annual data, which might underestimate the true effects as these extreme events tend to be short-lived and generate government and family support in response.

How Much Should the World Pay for the Congo Forest’s Carbon Removal? (06/12/2022)

At last year’s United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP26), 141 leaders committed to halt and reverse forest loss and degradation by 2030. Forests, particularly tropical ones, are known to play a crucial role in removing carbon from the atmosphere, partially offsetting the effect of greenhouse gas emissions.

The EU-CEAP Impacts on Developing Countries – Recommendations for Development Policy (06/12/2022)

The European Union Circular Economy Action Plan (EU-CEAP) is key to transitioning to a circular economy and climate neutrality under the EU Green Deal, with developing and emerging countries playing an important role.

The climate change – inequality nexus: towards environmental and socio-ecological inequalities with a focus on human capabilities (06/12/2022)

The climate change – inequality nexus has become an increasingly important concept advanced by inequality and sustainability experts as well as international organisations like the United Nations. In this perspective paper, two arguments are made to further our understanding of the nexus and to promote action on SDG 10 (”Reducing inequalities within and among countries”) and SDG 13 (”Climate action”).

Global Outlook on Financing for Sustainable Development 2023 (05/12/2022)

While developed countries deployed historic stimulus packages to build back better, developing countries lacked fiscal and monetary buffers to respond. Countries with the fewest resources face challenging trade-offs between short-term rescue and long-term financing for a sustainable recovery.

Multilateral Development Finance 2022 (01/12/2022)

Multilateral development finance is stretched across an ever expanding list of priorities, ranging from humanitarian crisis response to the provision of global and regional public goods. The urgent nature of these crises requires renewed efforts to strengthen the financial capacity of the multilateral development system but should not divert attention from other parts of the reform agenda, such as the need to reduce the fragmentation of the multilateral architecture.

International Financial Institutions in a Time of New Challenges (06/12/2022)

New challenges are emerging in developing countries, and are acute in more fragile countries. In recent years, the challenges of growth and development have amplified, bringing new challenges to light. Providing countries with the necessary capacities to provide structured and sustainable responses to these challenges is one of the priorities in development forums today.

International Debt Report 2022 (07/12/2022)

The present report, formerly International Debt Statistics, is a longstanding annual publication featuring external debt statistics and analysis for the 121 low- and middle-income countries that report to the World Bank Debtor Reporting System (DRS).

New Approaches to Closing the Fiscal Gap (08/12/2022)

As the COVID‐19 crisis recedes, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is back to work and looking forward. The new and unwelcome entrant in the policy space is inflation. While comparable to advanced country levels and well managed by regional monetary authorities, inflation nonetheless is being propelled by forces that may give it more staying power than originally hoped.

Implications of COVID-19 and Russia’s war in Ukraine for EU-Africa relations – Development finance (02/12/2022)

The current multi-crises context is gravely affecting the African continent (and especially Sub-Saharan Africa), and the EU must critically mobilise and expand the range of tools to support African initiatives for greater resilience, and sustainable and inclusive recovery and transformation.

State of Finance for Nature 2022 (02/12/2022)

The present report reveals that nature-based solutions are still significantly under-financed. If the world wants to halt biodiversity loss, limit climate change to below 1.5C and achieve land degradation neutrality by 2030, current finance flows to nature-based solutions must urgently double by 2025 and triple by 2030.

Mise en œuvre du cadre mondial pour la biodiversité pour l’après-2020 : quel mécanisme de financement (09/12/2022)

La mise en œuvre effective du futur cadre mondial pour la biodiversité doit nécessairement reposer sur l’identification des priorités et besoins, mais aussi sur l’élaboration ou le renforcement d’outils et de mécanismes catalytiques, tels que les plans nationaux de financement de la biodiversité et les fonds multilatéraux existants.

Moving from Reaction to Action: Anticipating Vulnerability Hotspots in the Sahel (25/11/2022)

The Sahel faces mounting human security and development challenges due to the complex interplay of diverse and growing risks in the region, including climate change, environmental degradation, food and livelihoods insecurity, weak governance capacity, conflict and violence, and displacement.

Strengthening Data to Protect Healthcare in Conflict Zones (22/11/2022)

Attacks on healthcare in situations of armed conflict have been reported at alarming levels over the past two decades. This paper examines why data on threats to and attacks on healthcare in conflict is important to protection, advocacy, and investigation and how it can be improved and harmonized. It provides an overview of existing data-collection efforts and identifies challenges and gaps at both the policy and technical levels.

The EU-Africa peace and security partnership. Political and financial stumbling blocks and a few ways forward (08/12/2022)

Peace and security is an area in which the EU-Africa partnership has been particularly effective – despite the political falling outs of recent years. The partners’ different responses to the Ukraine crisis, for example, highlights their differing views on the global order.

Four reasons why the New Agenda for Peace should focus on nationally led violence prevention strategies (28/11/2022)

Over the past few years, the prevention of violence has gained new momentum at the United Nations (UN). However, the UN still lacks a comprehensive strategy to transform these commitments into action. The UN Charter mostly focuses on the prevention of international conflicts, while lethal violence is nowadays mostly concentrated within countries.

Measuring Peace Impact: Challenges and Solutions (05/12/2022)

This paper presents emerging thinking about the challenges of measuring peace impact and the possible solutions to these challenges in conflict and peacebuilding settings.

The Position of Crisis in Human Development Processes and Thinking: Using the Human Security Perspective in an Era of Transitions (06/12/2022)

This paper discusses how development thinking around threats and consequent crises—sudden sharp or severe disruptions in development paths—has in various ways often been inhibited and inadequate.

Opportunities for the European Union to Strengthen Biosecurity in Africa (05/12/2022)

The European Union has committed even further to strengthening biosafety and biosecurity capabilities in Africa, with more meaningful collaboration and an increase in the local and regional ownership of projects. This provides an opportunity for the EU to continue to broaden its approach and improve coordination with international partners.

Africa Organised Crime Index 2021 (30/11/2022)

Analyses of the social, economic and political impacts of organised crime may elude most people, but the effects of organised crime are nonetheless tangible and felt by many. As shown by the results of the Index, the majority of Africa’s population – almost two-thirds (60.9%) – live in countries with high levels of organised crime.

International Security in a World of Fragile States - Islamic States and Islamist Organizations (21/11/2022)

The present book stands out as a pivotal work on the interconnection between the root causes of Jihadi Salafi Groups (JSGs) and state fragility conditions and their amalgamated role in the formation and evolution of these organizations. It contributes to IR and international security debates by developing a comprehensive but readily understandable narrative of the rise of JSGs in Islamic countries, and examining them in an analytical framework in which their root causes are categorized on individual, group, and international levels.

La mer de Chine Méridionale au prisme du soft power. Nouvelles approches franco-vietnamiennes d'un vieux conflit maritime (02/12/2022)

Jamais, depuis la fin de la Guerre froide, le niveau d'activités militaires et de tensions n'a été aussi élevé en mer de Chine méridionale. Comment ce conflit localisé et somme toute mineur, au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, s'est-il mué en conflit stratégique d'ampleur mondiale, aujourd'hui ? Quels efforts ont été entrepris ou peuvent être suggérés pour tenter de le résoudre ? Quel rôle y jouent les États-Unis et la Chine, le Vietnam et les Philippines, l'ASEAN, l'Europe et la France ? Quel a été l'impact de la pandémie ? De la guerre en Ukraine et de la crise taiwanaise?

Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The gender snapshot 2022 (29/11/2022)

The present report presents the latest evidence on gender equality across all 17 Goals, calling out the long road ahead to achieve gender equality. It emphasizes the interlinkages among the goals, the pivotal force gender equality plays in driving progress across the SDGs and women and girls’ central role in leading the way.

Tackling Gender Inequality: Definitions, Trends, and Policy Designs (07/12/2022)

Gender inequality differs from gender gaps in important ways, and this has important policy implications. However, the literature often equates gender inequality with gender gaps and use them interchangeably. This paper defines gender gaps as the observed differences between men and women or between boys and girls in the various social and economic indicators, and gender inequality refers to the part of gender gaps that are driven by gender bias and unequal gender rights and opportunities

Safe consultations with survivors of violence against women and girls (08/12/2022)

A key challenge faced by many entities working to end violence against women is ensuring that survivors’ voices and inputs are incorporated into policies, practices, and procedures on response. Not all women and girls experience violence in the same way. An effective intervention takes into account the realities of their unique circumstances, addresses individual needs, and reduces the risk for further harm and suffering.

Gender gains overshadowed by constitutional violation: an analysis of the situation for women in politics after the 2022 Kenya elections (08/12/2022)

The 2022 elections saw the first-ever female presidential running mate for one of the major coalitions, and increases in the number of women elected to county governments and as governors. Despite these wins, however, the constitutional gender quota was far from being achieved in this election cycle and many women politicians are still exposed to violence.

Violence against Women in Politics (A study conducted in India, Nepal and Pakistan) (29/11/2022)

The present study on women in politics in South Asia has shown that 90% of women politicians in India, Nepal and Pakistan felt threats of violence shook their resolve to join politics. It also reveals that the insufficient implementation of laws, lack of support from police and judiciary, the socio-economic divide and current power structures are the major reasons for violence.

OECD Economic Outlook, Interim Report - Paying the Price of War (10/11/2022)

The world is paying a high price for Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. The high humanitarian cost continues to grow and the global economic outlook has darkened further. This Interim Report focuses on the effects of the war on the world economy and the energy crisis.

Global Financial Stability Report, October 2022: Navigating the High-Inflation Environment (13/11/2022)

Global financial stability risks have increased amid a series of cascading shocks. Chapter 1 analyzes the policy response of central banks to high inflation, the risks of a disorderly tightening of financial conditions, and debt distress among emerging and frontier markets. Chapter 2 examines how to narrow the climate financing gap in emerging market and developing economies. Chapter 3 analyzes the contributions of open-end investment funds to fragilities in asset markets.

2022 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index: Unpacking deprivation bundles to reduce multidimensional poverty (09/11/2022)

The report identifies a series of 'deprivation bundles' -- recurring patterns of poverty -- that commonly impact those who live in multidimensional poverty across the world. The data are used to identify the poverty profiles that are more common in certain places. This is a crucial step in designing strategies that address multiple aspects of poverty at the same time.

Authentic Sustainability Assessment - A User Manual for the Sustainable Development Performance Indicators (09/11/2022)

This publication provides —for the first time— a comprehensive set of indicators for assessing organizational performance in the context of sustainability thresholds and transformative change needed to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. To advance from existing SDG indicators, which assess incremental performance the SDPIs instead assess performance relative to normative sustainability thresholds.

El desafío del desarrollo. Trayectorias de los grandes economistas latinoamericanos del siglo XX (13/11/2022)

El libro presenta una propuesta original a través de una historia social de las ideas sobre el desarrollo económico latinoamericano: si bien su estructura aborda la trayectoria vital de cada uno de los principales representantes de la primera generación de teóricos del desarrollo en la región, muestra una trama intelectual e ideológica que desborda los periplos individuales y los anuda a un momento histórico en el plano de la evolución de las ideas y a un determinado contexto de las condiciones sociales, culturales y materiales en los que se desarrollaron.

OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2022-2031 (07/11/2022)

The present report provides a consensus assessment of the ten-year prospects for agricultural commodity and fish markets at national, regional, and global levels, and serves as a reference for forward-looking policy analysis and planning. Projections suggest that SDG 2 on Zero Hunger would not be achieved by 2030 and greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture would continue to increase.

The State of Food and Agriculture 2022: Leveraging automation to transform agrifood systems (09/11/2022)

Agricultural automation, which includes anything from tractors to artificial intelligence, can play an important role in making food production more efficient and more environmentally friendly. However, its uneven adoption can also deepen inequalities, especially if it remains inaccessible to small-scale producers and other marginalized groups, such as youth and women.

Aligning food systems with climate and biodiversity targets (07/11/2022)

This paper considers the policy outlook at the climate–biodiversity–food nexus over the current decade, assessing the suitability of proposed action and identifying fundamental inconsistencies that will inhibit progress and worsen outcomes. It explores the critical role of food system transformation in enabling meaningful, joined-up global action on both climate change and biodiversity loss.

Global Market Report: Coffee prices and sustainability (10/11/2022)

This report looks closely at sustainable production and consumption trends in the coffee sector, focusing on how voluntary sustainability standards can make a difference in producers’ livelihoods by, for example, raising farm gate prices or supporting climate resilience and soil and water conservation.

Why Agriculture Productivity Falls: The Political Economy of Agrarian Transition in Developing Countries (11/11/2022)

The present book offers a new explanation for the decline in agricultural productivity in developing countries. Transcending the conventional approaches to understanding productivity using agricultural inputs and factors of production, this work brings in the role of formal and informal institutions that govern transactions, property rights, and accumulation.

Living Planet 2022 (31/10/2022)

In its most comprehensive finding to date, this edition shows an average 69% decline in the relative abundance of monitored wildlife populations around the world between 1970 and 2018. Latin America shows the greatest regional decline in average population abundance (94%), while freshwater species populations have seen the greatest overall global decline (83%).

Nature is counting on us (10/11/2022)

This comprehensive analysis of Convention on Biological Diversity policy documents seeks to better understand trends in the use spatial data and tools for biodiversity policymaking among developing countries and countries with economies in transition, and to evaluate the impact that spatial data use may have on policy outcomes.

A double-edged sword: The role of technology in combating wildlife crime (31/10/2022)

Technology offers a critical avenue for nimble, innovative and proactive responses to wildlife crime. Harnessing these opportunities is essential, as wildlife crime is driving the rapid, unsustainable and increasingly irreversible depletion of animal and plant populations. Wildlife crime also poses risks to human security and undermines development and governance.

The Amazon rainforest and the global–regional politics of ecosystem governance (04/11/2022)

In 2019, wildfires put the Amazon rainforest once again in the global spotlight and prompted criticism from several leaders. The contrast between the responses of Amazon and global North states becomes a puzzle when one thinks about the concrete consequences of Amazon degradation. In fact, ecosystem degradation does not respect borders. The growing deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon has come to be seen as leading to a tipping point of no return for the entire regional ecosystem, affecting populations in all Amazon countries.

Estrategia Iberoamericana de Cultura y Desarrollo Sostenible (12/11/2022)

La presente Estrategia Iberoamericana de Cultura y Desarrollo Sostenible se estructura en diferentes objetivos generales y específicos para una mayor adaptabilidad a la diversidad y diferencia del Espacio Cultural Iberoamericano. Su estructuración y desarrollo se concretan en cinco grandes ejes con sus respectivos ámbitos temáticos que conducen a las recomendaciones finales.

What About Us? Global Perspectives on Redressing Religious Inequalities (28/10/2022)

This book is about the individual and collective struggles of the religiously marginalised to be recognised and their inequalities, religious or otherwise, redressed. It is also about the efforts of civil society, governments, multilateral actors, and scholars to promote freedom of religion or belief whatever shape they take. The actors and contexts that feature in this book are as diverse as local education authorities in Nigeria, indigenous movements in India, Uganda, or South Africa, and multilateral actors such as the Islamic Development Bank in Sudan and the World Bank in Pakistan.

Rehabilitating Heritage After ISIS: Economic, Sociocultural, and Historical Considerations in the Case Studies of Al-Nouri Mosque, Al-Hadba Minaret, and Lalish Temple (04/11/2022)

This paper explores three case studies of the Al-Nouri Mosque, Al-Hadba Minaret, and Lalish Temple in the aftermath of the ISIS war of 2014–17 and the occupation of Nineveh governorate. It analyses the role of these sites as part of northern Iraq’s heritage and the mechanisms in place for their reconstruction and preservation. The paper explores the role of the different actors and how these have influenced different understandings of heritage and therefore different responses and approaches to restoration.

La musique traditionelle Ngàmbáye - Tchad (12/11/2022)

Chez les Ngàmbáyes la musique vocale est associée à la vie de tous les jours et, pour cette raison, susceptible d'être chantée à n'importe quel moment par n'importe qui. Elle ponctue les cérémonies liées au mariage, à la naissance, à l'initiation ou aux funérailles, tantôt aux travaux des champs, au retour de la chasse. Les chants de ce recueil constituent un échantillon significatif de ce patrimoine ancestral de l'ouïe. Des notes et variantes permettront au lecteur de replacer chaque chant dans le contexte d'émission, d'en définir les modalités et les différents niveaux de signification, et de s'interroger sur les fonctions qu'ils remplissent dans la société traditionnelle ngàmbáye, dont le peuple vit à l'extrême sud du Tchad .

Deadly Cargo: Exposing the supply chain that fuels war crimes in Myanmar (12/11/2022)

This report shows how Puma Energy, majority-owned by global commodity giant Trafigura, has played a key role in supplying the Myanmar military since 2015 through its Myanmar entities. It also shows how global and regional oil companies, as well as maritime insurers, vessel owners, shipping agents and truck distributors, also play a part in this supply chain. Without the provision of aviation fuel, the Myanmar military would have no means to power the aircraft responsible for air strikes amounting to crimes.

Indonesia at the Intersection of Human Rights and International Investment (12/11/2022)

In the changing dynamics of today’s world, globalisation and sovereignty remain centrally important. Simultaneously, international commerce in the form of global value chains is playing an increasingly significant role in linking and mediating the overlap of globalisation and sovereignty. Nation-state governments use law to manage this overlap. By examining the intersection of laws regarding foreign investment and human rights, it becomes possible to gain insight into the constraints that national governments face in regard to protecting local interests while catering to the demands of global commerce. Human rights protections, after all, benefit local welfare but inhibit investment because they impose costs on companies.

‘We vowed by force, not by our heart’: men’s and women’s perspectives on forced marriage during the Cambodian genocide (12/11/2022)

While many of the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge regime during the Cambodian genocide have been well documented, forced marriage remains poorly understood. This article documents the perspectives of women and men who experienced forced marriage under the Khmer Rouge, using primary data from interviews with 28 women and 30 men. The interviews reveal the profound violence, coercion and threats that surrounded the experience of forced marriage, with similarities and differences in the experiences of men and women.

Reconsidering reparations (07/11/2022)

Reparations for slavery have become a reinvigorated topic for public debate over the last decade. Most theorizing about reparations treats it as a social justice project - either rooted in reconciliatory justice focused on making amends in the present; or, they focus on the past, emphasizing restitution for historical wrongs. Olúfemi O. Táíwò argues that neither approach is optimal, and advances a different case for reparations - one rooted in a hopeful future that tackles the issue of climate change head on, with distributive justice at its core. This view, which he calls the "constructive" view of reparations, argues that reparations should be seen as a future-oriented project engaged in building a better social order; and that the costs of building a more equitable world should be distributed more to those who have inherited the moral liabilities of past injustices.

Education at a Glance 2022 (26/10/2022)

The 2022 edition focuses on tertiary education, looking at the rise of tertiary attainment and the associated benefits for individuals and for societies. A specific chapter is dedicated to the COVID crisis and the shift from crisis management to recovery. Two new indicators on professional development for teachers and school heads and on the profile of academic staff complement this year's edition.

Exploring the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Low-Cost Private Schools in Nairobi, Kenya (10/11/2022)

This study investigates the extent to which lockdowns and school closures affected households and low-cost private schools in four urban informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya. Its findings indicate that measures to contain the spread of COVID-19 significantly reduced household incomes, and among the coping strategies adopted by some households was to transfer learners from private schools to public schools, especially for learners in primary schools, because public primary schools do not charge tuition and enjoy government-paid teachers.

The coldest year of the rest of their lives: Protecting children from the escalating impacts of heatwaves (27/10/2022)

By 2050, virtually every child on earth – over 2 billion children – is forecast to face more frequent heatwaves, regardless of whether the world achieves a ‘low greenhouse gas emission scenario’ with an estimated 1.7 degrees of warming in 2050 or a ‘very high greenhouse gas emission scenario’ with an estimated 2.4 degrees of warming in 2050. These findings underscore the urgent need to adapt the services children rely on as unavoidable impacts of global heating unfold.

Youth demands for quality climate change education (13/11/2022)

The quality of the current climate change education is in question. 70% of the youth surveyed say that they cannot explain climate change, or can only explain its broad principles, or do not know anything about it, putting into question the quality of climate change education in our schools today. The younger the respondents, the higher the level of satisfaction of their learning experiences on climate change education.

Youth leadership for development: contradictions of Africa's growing leadership pipeline (13/11/2022)

Over the past decade, hundreds of youth leadership initiatives have been established globally with the mission of grooming a new generation of leaders. This paper examines this largely unstudied and rapidly expanding leadership pipeline based on an ongoing study, which has collected data on 277 programmes that: target African youth, offer educational training or professional development, and have goals of cultivating leaders who will contribute to African development; and interviewed and surveyed 240 youth participants.

The Social Tax: Redistributive Pressure and Labor Supply (28/10/2022)

In low-income communities, pressure to share income with others may disincentivize work, distorting labor supply. This paper documents that across countries, social groups that undertake more interpersonal transfers work fewer hours. Using a field experiment, it enables piece-rate factory workers in Côte d’Ivoire to shield income using blocked savings accounts over 3-9 months.

Healthier Firms for a Stronger Recovery: Policies to Support Business and Jobs in Latin America and the Caribbean (26/10/2022)

This report focuses on firms and labor markets in Latin America and the Caribbean during the COVID-19 crisis and the highly uncertain recovery phase now underway. The ongoing Russian war in Ukraine, volatility in international financial markets, and fears of global stagflation (low growth and high inflation) combine with the impacts of the pandemic to make the economic environment particularly challenging.

Attracting and retaining talents in the EU: What role can the EU play in ensuring a sustainable and competitive ecosystem for labour migration? (28/10/2022)

Despite its fragmented competences on labour migration, the EU still has room to play to increase the attractiveness of its Member States’ labour markets and to facilitate the involvement of the private sector in recruiting candidates internationally. This policy brief seeks to provide insights into the role of the EU to improve private sector engagement and develop a sustainable and competitive ecosystem for future labour mobility schemes.

Are children paying the price for cocoa in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana? (31/10/2022)

Child labour is a serious problem in the cocoa industry in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, with children often trafficked from neighbouring countries to work in the cocoa fields. This paper delves into the cocoa industry in the two countries and its challenges. It argues that multinational corporations operating in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana should be held criminally responsible for their role in cocoa production when it involves illicit activities and explores how national and regional laws can be used as a tool to do so.

Is Social Protection a Luxury Good? (26/10/2022)

The claim that social protection is a luxury good—with a national income elasticity exceeding unity—has been influential. The paper tests the “luxury good hypothesis” using newly-assembled data on social protection spending across countries since 1995, treating the pandemic period separately, as it entailed a large expansion in social protection efforts.

Crises of Inequality: Shifting Power for a New Eco-Social Contract (09/11/2022)

The report associates the multiple crises and increasing inequalities we are facing with policy choices promoted during the age of neoliberal hyperglobalization. It unpacks the implications for sustainable development and for disadvantaged social groups through the lenses of intersectionality and power.

Situation et politiques de l'emploi en Côte d'Ivoire (1980-1990) (07/11/2022)

Cet ouvrage traite du cadre institutionnel de la gouvernance de l'emploi, des concepts et définitions, décrit d'une part la situation de l'emploi, les caractéristiques du marché de l'emploi, les perspectives et les politiques de l'emploi mises en œuvre au cours de la période 1980-1990 et aborde, d'autre part, les questions liées au chômage des diplômés de l'enseignement supérieur, de la politique de l'ivoirisation des cadres, de la reconnaissance du secteur informel en 1987 comme grand secteur pourvoyeur d'emplois. Ce livre devrait inspirer les responsables publics des politiques de l'emploi, des ressources humaines, du secteur privé en Côte d'Ivoire, ailleurs dans la sous-région de l'espace UEMOA et en Afrique.

World Energy Outlook 2022 (31/10/2022)

With the world in the midst of the first global energy crisis – triggered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine – the present report provides indispensable analysis and insights on the implications of this profound and ongoing shock to energy systems across the globe. Based on the latest energy data and market developments, it explores key questions about the crisis: Will it be a setback for clean energy transitions or a catalyst for greater action? How might government responses shape energy markets? Which energy security risks lie ahead on the path to net zero emissions?

2022 State of Climate Services: Energy (07/11/2022)

Reaching net zero by 2050 will mean a complete transformation of our global energy system, with a switch to lower emissions electricity production and increased energy efficiency at the heart of the worldwide response. But the transition to clean energy calls for investment in improved weather, water and climate services that can be used to ensure our energy infrastructure is resilient to climate-related shocks and inform measures to increase energy efficiency across multiple sectors.

Navigating Energy Transitions: Mapping the road to 1.5°C (26/10/2022)

This report highlights the implications of 1.5°C scenarios for the phase-out of fossil fuels and the scale-up to renewables, barriers to transitions and solutions to such challenges, and tools for governments and financial institutions to navigate the current energy crisis while maintaining climate ambition. It also looks at the implications of the war in Ukraine for energy systems and explores whether Europe can meet its gas demand without the Russian supply.

Just Energy Transition Partnerships in the context of Africa-Europe relations: reflections from South Africa, Nigeria and Senegal (04/11/2022)

An energy transition partnership that is to be just–in a distributive, procedural and restorative sense–cannot be negotiated behind closed doors. Transparency in the negotiations with international partners is key and often lacking across the three country studies. So is a pluralistic debate in the elaboration of a country-driven plan that involves multiple stakeholders.

The Quest for Scalable Business Models for Mini-Grids in Africa: Implementing the Keymaker Model in Tanzania (04/11/2022)

Renewable mini-grids are a promising technology to electrify remote communities with a substantial productive demand, mainly from agro-processing. Mini-grids have experienced fast growth and there are now around 2,200 systems in the sub-Saharan Africa region. However, their economic case in the sub-continent is unclear. Most mini-grids are struggling not only to obtain a profit but also to recover costs.

Oil-Age Africa. Critical Reflections on Oil Politics, Resource Economies and Extractive Communities (07/11/2022)

Following a wave of oil discoveries in Africa, this book offers new perspectives and critical reflections on the prevalent academic discourses on oil in Africa. It brings together researchers from the social sciences to challenge simplified readings of the complex realities of oil politics, economies and societies through theoretical critique and ‘on the ground’ ethnographic methods. Climate change highlights the need to understand the intricate ways societies are built on and for oil energy. The book analyses the effects of oil production and the global energy structure, offering relevant insights and avenues for future research on oil.

WMO Provisional State of the Global Climate 2022 (07/11/2022)

In 2021, concentrations of the three main greenhouse gases – carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide – continued to reach record highs. The annual increase in methane concentration was the highest on record, which is especially significant given that methane is more than 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere. Real time data from specific locations show levels of the three gases continued to increase in 2022.

Climate and Development : An Agenda for Action (13/11/2022)

Climate change poses a major threat to long-term development objectives, especially poverty reduction, and accelerated emission reductions are needed, particularly in high-income and other high-emitting countries. Reducing emissions can be done without comprising development: taken together, CCDR low-carbon development strategies reduce emissions by 70%, without significant impact on growth, provided that policies are well designed and financing is available. Financing needs average 1.4% of GDP, a manageable amount with appropriate private sector involvement. But in lower-income countries, financing needs can exceed 5%, which will require more support from high-income countries, including increased concessional resources.

State of the Climate Action 2022 (10/11/2022)

The present report provides a comprehensive assessment of the global gap in climate action across the world’s highest-emitting systems, highlighting where recent progress made in reducing GHG emissions, scaling up carbon removal, and increasing climate finance must accelerate over the next decade to keep the Paris Agreement’s goal to limit warming to 1.5°C within reach.

Climate Action for Africa at COP27 (08/11/2022)

Africa has contributed less than any other region – just 3.8% of global carbon emissions – to the climate crisis, but the continent faces a disproportionately high impact on its economy and human well-being. This climate injustice has to be rectified.

Ensuring that COP27 is Truly an ‘African COP’ (27/10/2022)

COP27 is of paramount importance if ambitious global climate action is to be achieved. Lack of action will have dire consequences for Africa, other developing regions and the world more broadly. Despite complex global geopolitical dynamics, climate action, and specifically policy implementation, must remain high on the political agenda of all countries. It is crucial to minimise the gap between current pledges and what is needed to avoid devastating climate change for Africa.

Emissions Gap Report 2022: The Closing Window – Climate crisis calls for rapid transformation of societies (28/10/2022)

As growing climate change impacts are experienced across the globe, the message that greenhouse gas emissions must fall is unambiguous. Yet this report finds that the international community is falling far short of the Paris goals, with no credible pathway to 1.5°C in place. Only an urgent system-wide transformation can avoid climate disaster.

Adaptation Gap Report 2022: Too Little, Too Slow – Climate adaptation failure puts world at risk (04/11/2022)

Climate change is landing blow after blow upon humanity and the planet, an onslaught that will only intensify in the coming years even if the world begins to bring down greenhouse gas emissions. The present report finds that the world must urgently increase efforts to adapt to these impacts of climate change.

Circular economy as a climate strategy: current knowledge and calls-to-action (07/11/2022)

This publication outlines current understanding of how a circular economy can help avert the climate crisis. It outlines nine calls-to-action decision makers and researchers can take to maximise circular economy benefits in order to help limit warming to 1.5 ̊C and avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

The Least Developed Countries Report 2022: The low-carbon transition and its daunting implications for structural transformation (10/11/2022)

Although least developed countries (LDCs) have barely contributed to climate change, they are on the front lines of the climate crisis. Over the last 50 years, 69% of worldwide deaths caused by climate-related disasters occurred in LDCs. Building resilience via a green structural transformation, and making growth sustainable by generating decent jobs, domestic savings, diversification of the economy and exports, and a shift away from dependence on primary commodities, is moving to the forefront of the national development agenda in LDCs.

Extreme Heat: Preparing for the heatwaves of the future (10/11/2022)

This report notes that in the coming decades, heatwaves are predicted to meet and exceed human physiological and social limits in regions such as the Sahel, the Horn of Africa and South and South-West Asia. Extreme heatwaves in these regions would result in large-scale suffering and loss of life, population movements and further entrenched inequality.

Nationally determined contributions under the Paris Agreement. Synthesis report by the secretariat (10/11/2022)

This report synthesizes information from the 166 latest available nationally determined contributions communicated by 193 Parties to the Paris Agreement and recorded in the registry of nationally determined contributions as of 23 September 2022.

FDI Qualities Guide for Development Co-operation - Strengthening the Role of Development Co-operation for Sustainable Investment (26/10/2022)

This guide provides a framework to strengthen the role of development co-operation for mobilising foreign direct investment (FDI) and enhancing its positive impact in developing countries

The State of SDG-Era Lending (10/11/2022)

This study, consisting of research, data analysis, interviews and case studies, reviews trends in development finance since 2015 and finds that little has changed within pre-existing development banks since the Sustainable Development Goals were agreed upon and the Addis Ababa commitments made. Its purpose is to ask why there is such a lack of progress and share five key actions development banks and their policy advisors can take now to achieve the Addis Ababa Action Plan on Financing for Development.

Avoiding ‘Too Little Too Late’ on International Debt Relief (10/11/2022)

This paper takes stock of the unfolding debt crisis across developing low- and middle-income countries and discusses how to break with the inertia in debt restructurings under the Common Framework for Debt Treatments. Using data on credit ratings, debt sustainability ratings, and sovereign bond spreads the paper identifies 54 developing economies with severe debt problems.

The ABCs of Sovereign Debt Relief (26/10/2022)

After a decade-long period of low borrowing costs, a confluence of rising interest rates, inflation, and commodity shocks have raised the likelihood of overlapping debt crises in developing countries. The International Monetary Fund now estimates that 30% of emerging market countries and 60% of low-income countries could face trouble paying down their debts or will soon.

Scaling Up Sustainable Finance and Investment in the Global South (07/11/2022)

This ebook provides a comprehensive overview of the financing gap that emerging and developing countries face to meet the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris climate goals. It provides detailed country- and region-level analysis of the challenges and opportunities of scaling up sustainable finance and investment and discusses the range of instruments that could be used to reach these climate and development objectives.

Loss and Damage finance in the climate negotiations (04/11/2022)

This research paper maps the political landscape on Loss and Damage finance, with the aim of increasing understanding of different countries’ perspectives and identifying pragmatic, politically realistic steps that could be taken in the near term to start building consensus among governments around a way forward.

Finances publiques dans les pays en développement (10/11/2022)

Les pays en développement (PED) ont des problèmes structurels de financement de leurs économies. La dégradation des finances publiques depuis la crise économique de 2008 y a engendré des déséquilibres budgétaires importants avec pour corollaire un endettement très élevé faisant redouter l'insoutenabilité de la dette publique et des finances publiques. Le déficit structurel et le risque d'insoutenabilité de la dette sont un problème récurrent pour les pays en développement et marchés émergents. L'intervention des partenaires techniques et financiers à travers différents programmes de réformes, notamment d'ajustement structurel, n'a pas produit les effets escomptés. C'est pourquoi les grandes puissances ont décidé de restructurer de façon coordonnée les dettes des PED, à l'occasion du G20.

Arms-production Capabilities in the Indo-Pacific Region: Measuring Self-reliance (26/10/2022)

Armed forces in the Indo-Pacific region remain dependent on weapon systems imported from foreign suppliers. This is despite the efforts of many governments in the Indo-Pacific to implement policies that support the development of local arms industrial capabilities with the aim of increasing self-reliance. This report develops three indicators to give a score and regional ranking of self-reliance in arms production to 12 jurisdictions in the Indo-Pacific region.

Multilateral Peace Operations and the Challenges of Epidemics and Pandemics (26/10/2022)

This paper provides a broad overview of how multilateral peace operations have responded to cholera and Ebola epidemics and the HIV/AIDS and Covid-19 pandemics over the past 20 years. Such public health crises can be especially lethal in fragile and conflict-affected areas.

The microbes of Abidjan (31/10/2022)

Born in the chaotic days after the disputed election of 2010, violent youth gangs, dubbed microbes by the local population, terrorised the streets of the poorest areas of Côte d’Ivoire’s capital. Marginalised and deprived of hope, these microbes are easy prey for the vié pères who run the criminal economy of the city, especially its drug markets. They are also used by politicians to intimidate opposition supporters.

Hybrid balancing as classical realist statecraft: China's balancing behaviour in the Indo-Pacific (04/11/2022)

This article identifies a gap in studies of ‘hybrid warfare’ and introduces the new concept of ‘hybrid balancing’. While previous studies have predominantly focused on Russian behaviours in Crimea and Ukraine, this article uses ‘hybrid balancing’ to examine China's hybrid warfare in the Indo-Pacific, against the backdrop of harsh geopolitical competition between China and the US.

Routledge Handbook of African Peacebuilding (28/10/2022)

Africa lies at the centre of the international community’s peacebuilding interventions, and the continent’s rich multitude of actors, ideas, relationships, practices, experiences, locations, and contexts in turn shapes the possibilities and practices of contemporary peacebuilding. This handbook surveys and analyses peacebuilding as it operates in this specifically African context. It begins by outlining the evolution and the various ideologies, conceptualizations, institutions, and practices of African peacebuilding. Then, it considers how different actors sustain, construct, and use African infrastructure to identify and analyse converging, differing, or competing mandates, approaches, and interests. Finally, it analyses specific thematic issues such as gender, justice, development, democracy, and the politics of knowledge before ending with in-depth analyses of case studies drawn from across the continent.

Sustained terrorism on Africa. A Study of Slave-ism, Colonialism, Neocolonialism, and Globalism (07/11/2022)

Terrorism on Africa has been the global threat against which global war must now be fought. Whether the terrorizing country was peaceful or violent, no country should be granted the right to seize and restrict the development of a region. Europeans have crippled the rich native African civilizations for their own political and economic gain for centuries. No matter the reason, no intelligence, knowledge, or technology permits one country or countries to terrorize another or other countries like the terrorized and victimized in Africa.

Breaking the statistical silence to achieve gender equality by 2030: Application of the information systems pillar of the Montevideo Strategy for Implementation of the Regional Gender Agenda within the Sustainable Development Framework by 2030 (12/11/2022)

Mainstreaming the gender perspective in national statistical systems makes it possible to produce information that reflects the circumstances of women and men in all their diversity, and thus to shed light on inequalities in different aspects of life. This document presents the current situation of statistical production with a gender perspective in Latin America and the Caribbean, the factors that have been key to making progress in this area and the remaining challenges.

Gender, displacement and climate change (09/11/2022)

It is crucial to prioritize women’s and girl’s empowerment when addressing protection risks, including gender-based violence, in the context of displacement and climate change. Adopting a gender lens helps to identify and respond to specific risks and needs, and it highlights the essential roles women can take on in leading sustainable transformations.

Cities Alive: Designing Cities That Work for Women (09/11/2022)

Designing cities that work for women creates wider social, economic, and environmental benefits, along with safer, healthier, and more inclusive spaces, not just for women but for entire households and communities and is integral to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development across urban areas around the world.

Un llamado a la acción para impulsar el liderazgo de las mujeres y la democracia paritaria en las Américas (12/11/2022)

Organismos internacionales y regionales, con especial énfasis en los que integran el Task Force Interamericano sobre Liderazgo de las Mujeres, así como el movimiento feminista y de mujeres, han destacado que la presencia de mujeres en espacios clave de toma de decisión es fundamental para que la respuesta y recuperación de las crisis que atraviesan el mundo y la región latinoamericana sean sostenibles y no profundicen las brechas preexistentes.

Veneers of governance: lessons from Liberia’s growing vulnerability (31/10/2022)

The veneer of good governance that successfully conceals the hollowness of Liberia's state structures has long-term implications, and leaves states vulnerable to organised crime. The current system is characterised by widespread corruption in the context of enhanced state capacity and absent meaningful oversight mechanisms, occupying an illicit economy sweet spot.

The Strategic and Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector of Latin America and the Caribbean (12/11/2022)

Governments can use artificial intelligence to design better policies and make better and more targeted decisions, enhance communication and engagement with citizens, and improve the speed and quality of public services. The Latin America and the Caribbean region is seeking to leverage the immense potential of AI to promote the digital transformation of the public sector.

Weekly epidemiological update on COVID-19 – Edition 117 (10/11/2022)

Globally, the number of new weekly cases decreased by 15% during the week of 31 October to 6 November 2022, as compared to the previous week, with over 2.1 million new cases reported. The number of new weekly deaths decreased by 10%, as compared to the previous week, with about 9400 fatalities reported. As of 6 November 2022, 629 million confirmed cases and 6.5 million deaths have been reported globally.

Outbreak Brief #147: COVID-19 Pandemic (10/11/2022)

At 8 November 2022, a total of 12,103,931 COVID-19 cases and 256,066 deaths (CFR: 2.1%) have been reported by the 55 African Union (AU) Member States (MS). This represents 2% of all cases and 4% of all deaths reported globally. Since the detection of COVID-19 on the African continent (in February 2020), 53 (96%) AU MS have experienced three distinct COVID-19 waves, 48 (87%) MS have experienced four waves, 28 MS have experienced five waves, and five MS (Algeria, Burundi, Kenya, Mauritius and Tunisia) have experienced a sixth wave.

Uganda: Ebola outbreak (12/11/2022)

On 20 September 2022, the Ugandan health authorities declared an Ebola outbreak after the confirmation of one case in Madudu subcounty of Mubende district (the central region of Uganda) on 19 September. As at 7 November, there were 135 confirmed cases and 53 associated deaths. More than 1,000 doctors, pharmacists, and nurses protested on 6 November over delayed payments and wage conditions. They also denounced the inadequate supply of personal protective equipment. And there is a high risk of the death toll increasing. The Government has projected 500 fatalities by April 2023.

Putting Pandemics Behind Us: Investing in One Health to Reduce Risks of Emerging Infectious Diseases (09/11/2022)

The COVID-19 crisis brought home the high costs of pandemics, triggering a historic setback in the fight against poverty. It also reinforced the interconnections between people, planet and economy, calling attention to the zoonotic nature of pathogens spilling over from animals to people. To decrease their burden, the world must focus on prevention.

System-Wide Evaluation of the UNDS Socio-economic Response to COVID-19: Final Report (09/11/2022)

This system-wide evaluation report assesses the effectiveness of the United Nations Development System’s (UNDS) Socio-Economic Response to COVID-19. As the first UNDS system-wide evaluation, this report provides stakeholders with an overarching perspective that allows a look at the UNDS as a whole and assesses the extent to which it has been able to collectively bring its strengths and capacities to bear for countries in their recovery towards the Sustainable Development Goals.

Key issues and recommendations for the international treaty on pandemic prevention, preparedness, response and recovery (31/10/2022)

Several outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics have raised alarms about the lack of capacity to deal with these health crises at national and global levels. The Ebola and Zika outbreaks, and now monkeypox, highlight the lack of investment in research and development (R&D) for diseases endemic in the South. They also proved that the existing international system for R&D is not adequate for effective pandemic preparedness and response.

2022 Progress Report on the Every Woman Every Child Global Strategy For Women’s, Children’s And Adolescents’ Health (2016–2030) (09/11/2022)

This report shows that women’s and children’s health has suffered globally, as the impacts of conflict, the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change converge with devastating effects on prospects for children, young people and women. Data presented in the report show a critical regression across virtually every major measure of childhood wellbeing, and many key indicators of the Sustainable Development Goals.

The Next Game Changers: A Priority Innovation Agenda for Global Health (31/10/2022)

This paper reports the results of a horizon-scanning exercise to source opportunities for global health research and development investment — that is, high-value potential biomedical innovations which are currently underfunded but which could be transformative for health, quality of life, and health security in low- and middle-income countries and around the world.

Depression and Loneliness Among the Elderly Poor (31/10/2022)

The mental health of the elderly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is a largely neglected subject, both by policy and research. We combine data from the health and retirement family of surveys in seven LMICs (plus the US) to document that depressive symptoms among those aged 55 and above are more prevalent in those countries and increase sharply with age

Explaining the failure of global health governance during COVID-19 (04/11/2022)

During the COVID-19 pandemic, global health governance—especially the World Health Organisation—failed by design. Not because the WHO was too weak, or captured by China, but because, like many other global governance regimes, it pursued an illusory globalist approach that failed to build capacity where it was really needed: at the level of nation-states.

Sustainable Urban Mobility in the NDCs: The Essential Role of Public Transport (10/11/2022)

More robust measures on transport decarbonization are needed by 2030 to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, including reducing vehicle kilometers travelled and electrifying vehicles. Sustainable modes of travel, such as public transport, can and must play a crucial role in reducing the growth of private motor vehicle use, while at the same time bus fleets must be electrified.

Dynamiques de l'urbanisation africaine 2022 : Le rayonnement économique des villes africaines (10/11/2022)

Sur la base de données recueillies auprès de plus de 4 millions d'individus et d'entreprises, issus de 2 600 villes de 34 pays africains, ce rapport montre que l'urbanisation contribue à l’amélioration des résultats économiques et du niveau de vie. Dans la plupart des dimensions socio-économiques, les villes obtiennent des résultats nettement supérieurs aux pays au sein desquels elles sont situées.

Urban ecosystem-based adaptation: Regreening cities to tackle climate change (10/11/2022)

Despite some outmigration from the largest cities during the COVID-19 pandemic, urbanization will continue, and by 2035, 62.5% of the world’s population is expected to reside in urban areas. However, given the need to retrofit, replace and upgrade deteriorating urban infrastructure, and to meet the challenges of climate change, including the urban heat island effect, droughts and more intense flooding, many experts and policymakers see in these demands an opportunity to reinvent cities as greener, less prone to pandemics, and more liveable.

Habitat islamo-peul et modernité urbanistique. Enjeux et défis de la patrimonialisation dans le soudano-sahélien camerounais (08/11/2022)

La patrimonialisation des marqueurs socioculturels et identitaires, caractéristique de la ville soudano-sahélienne, en raison de l'originalité et de la beauté qu'elle transmet, a imposé l'intérêt de cet ouvrage. Il interroge la prise en compte des marqueurs identitaires dans les politiques de planification et d'aménagement urbains. Le lecteur retiendra que l'accompagnement de la dynamique urbaine par des actions institutionnelles concertées qui tiennent suffisamment compte des réalités locales est porteur d'enjeux de développement urbain durable et de préservation du capital culturel et identitaire régional.

International Migration Outlook 2022 (04/11/2022)

The 2022 edition analyses recent developments in migration movements and the labour market inclusion of immigrants. It includes a special chapter on the policy responses by OECD countries to the large inflow of refugees from Ukraine as well as a series of three short chapters on international students analysing respectively recent trends, attraction and retention policies as well as the economic impact of international students.

People on the Move in a Changing Climate – Linking Policy, Evidence and Action (09/11/2022)

An extensive array of international agreements and frameworks attest to the urgency of addressing climate change and human mobility together, as climate change, environmental degradation and disasters reshape contemporary human mobility patterns. It is now time to put these agreements into practice and step-up implementation on human mobility in contexts of climate change.

Migration crisis at the Colombia-Panama border (04/11/2022)

Between January–September 2022, more than 150,000 people crossed into Panama from Colombia through the Darién Gap. Of this number, 71% were Venezuelans. Around 14,500 were Children. Although migrants have historically used the Darién route to reach Central America, the flow considerably increased: the 133,000 migrants that crossed in 2021 is greater than the number of all crossings between 2010–2020.

“Those Who Returned Are Suffering” Impact of Camp Shutdowns on People Displaced By Boko Haram Conflict in Nigeria (12/11/2022)

The 59-page report, ‘“Those Who Returned Are Suffering’: Impact of Camp Shutdowns on People Displaced by the Boko Haram Conflict in Nigeria” documents the effect of the shutdowns, which have disrupted food support for internally displaced people and compelled them to leave the camps.

Vieillir en migration - Le cas des Soninké (04/11/2022)

Longtemps considérés comme les oubliés de la migration internationale de travail, les migrants âgés sont devenus visibles depuis la fin des années 1980 dans l'espace public français. Ce livre, qui prend pour exemple ceux de l'ethnie soninké s'intéresse particulièrement aux stratégies qu'ils déroulent à la fin de leurs carrières socioprofessionnelles. Ainsi, conjuguant avec les politiques migratoires changeantes de la France contemporaine et les nombreuses évolutions du foyer d'origine, ils s'activent dans la navette migratoire, optent pour le retour définitif dans la vallée du fleuve Sénégal ou pour l'inscription de leur fin de vie dans la société d'accueil française.

Accelerating Private Sector Engagement in Adaptation in Asia and the Pacific (13/11/2022)

This working paper outlines how to scale up the private sector's involvement in climate adaptation and harness its financial clout, technical know-how, and ingenuity to help build climate resilient economies in the Asia and Pacific region. It assesses the role businesses currently play and looks at the technical, financial, and institutional hurdles they face. It explores financing options and underscores the importance of companies becoming “solution providers”.

Consommation, commerce et culture en Afrique. Un analyse socio-économique (07/11/2022)

Avant de poser le champ de la consommation en Afrique, il faut d'abord parler de l'Afrique qui est un continent de diversité et qu'il est utopique de réduire à une unité homogène. Cet ouvrage s'intéresse à la compréhension des comportements des consommateurs africains et met en lumière des entreprises africaines qui ont su transformer le contexte local en opportunités. Le marketing de l'offre et le marketing de la demande trouveront leur place dans cet ouvrage.

Two Strategies for Innovation and Growth in Asia and the Pacific (13/11/2022)

Innovation is crucial for resilient and sustainable economic growth. Economic growth, which can be captured by the total output produced in an economy, is driven by capital, labor, and total factor productivity. Innovation can be created within ecosystems through the dynamic interactions of entrepreneurs, researchers and policy makers.

Experiencia: Datos e Inteligencia Artificial en el sector público (11/11/2022)

El uso de la inteligencia artificial ya es una realidad y se ha probado en el mundo y en la región. No obstante, es importante descifrar y comprender su potencial, su alcance, los desafíos y las posibilidades a las que nos enfrentamos. Este reporte regional sobre el uso estratégico y responsable de la inteligencia artificial en el sector público en América Latina, al que han contribuido expertos en la materia, presenta conceptos fundamentales sobre esta temática.

For Women, By Women, With Women : Bridging the Gender Digital Divide (13/11/2022)

Across Africa, rising mobile phone penetration, improving broadband Internet, and growing use of mobile money are creating new opportunities for governments, businesses, and individuals. While Africa’s digital revolution has been impressive, the continent has further to go to close gender digital divide. Four hundred million women in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) remain unconnected. Digital technologies can and have played a key role in mitigating the economic effects of the COVID-19 crisis

Science, Technology and Innovation Diplomacy in Developing Countries: Perceptions and Practice (11/11/2022)

This book provides a developing country perspective on the internationalization of science and the role of Science, Technology and Innovation Diplomacy (STID) in leveraging scientific cooperation for sustainable development. In articles by individuals from government departments and academic & research institutions in nine developing countries, it provides a conceptual understanding of the subject and reveals the prevailing perceptions on its praxis/practices. The articles highlight the significance of international cooperation at bilateral, regional and multilateral levels and the need for strengthening the role of STID in foreign policy and strategies of governments.

Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Trends - Trade Agreements in Asia and the Pacific: Bigger, Deeper, Digital and More Supportive of Sustainable Development? (13/11/2022)

The Asia-Pacific region continues to be the largest contributor to the worldwide build-up of preferential trade agreements (PTAs), accounting for about half of PTAs worldwide. PTAs have become bigger, deeper, more digital and increasingly supportive of sustainable development, with the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) exemplifying these trends.

Is the AfCFTA the ‘Game Changer’ for Africa? (27/10/2022)

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) has great potential to contribute to the realisation of structural transformation on the continent. Our assessment of the initial tariff offers under the AfCFTA agreement suggests that there is real value in the market access that will result from the implementation of the agreement. The impact of trade facilitation and a reduction in non-tariff barriers (NTBs) would be even more significant.

Commodity Markets Outlook (13/11/2022)

A sharp global growth slowdown and concerns about an impending global recession are weighing on commodity prices. In many economies, however, prices in domestic-currency terms remain elevated because of currency depreciations. This could deepen the food and energy crises already underway in a number of countries. As the global growth slowdown intensifies, commodity prices are expected to ease in the next two years, but they will remain considerably above their average over the past five years. Energy prices are expected to fall by 11% in 2023 and 12% in 2024. Agricultural and metal prices are projected to decline 5% and 15%, respectively, in 2023 before stabilizing in 2024. This outlook, however, is subject to numerous risks both in the short- and medium-term.

Increasing Trust in the Digital Market Through Regional Rules: the Case of Asia (12/11/2022)

A specific ‘Asian view’ that is not open to regional initiatives has been mentioned, but this is challenged as digitalisation raises similar issues in all countries and a lack of harmonisation of rights protection can hinder trade. The nature of rights in the digital environment, with standards and less ‘political’ rights may speak in favour of greater possibilities for a regional approach in Asia.

Water & Sanitation: Realizing Human Rights and Achieving Sustainable Development Goals (08/11/2022)

This handbook aims to provide support to parliamentarians, in order to contribute to their understanding of the legal, political, and programmatic implications of realizing the human rights to water and sanitation and achieving the related Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.

State of the World’s Drinking Water (08/11/2022)

This report is a comprehensive survey of what is known about the links between water, health, and development, with actionable recommendations to reach Sustainable Development Goal targets on access to safe drinking water. It is illustrated by many examples of how countries have addressed the challenge of providing safely managed drinking water to their populations.

Watershed Management in Ethiopia: Exploring Innovative Financing Strategies for Nature-Based Solutions (28/10/2022)

Ethiopia has a long history of land restoration and watershed management; however, land and watershed degradation persist, threatening agricultural productivity, water supplies, and livelihoods.

Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa: Living on the edge (31/10/2022)

Sub-Saharan Africa’s recovery has been abruptly interrupted. Last year, activity finally bounced back, lifting GDP growth in 2021 to 4.7%. But growth in 2022 is expected to slow sharply by more than 1% to 3.6%, as a worldwide slowdown, tighter global financial conditions, and a dramatic pickup in global inflation spill into a region already wearied by an ongoing series of shocks

East Africa Economic Outlook 2022 (13/11/2022)

The region is expected to grow at a slower pace of 4.7% in 2022—due to the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the impacts of the Russia-Ukraine war, which is already putting pressure on energy and food prices—before recovering to 5.5% in 2023. The projected strong growth is not homogenous across the region, with four countries (Kenya, Rwanda, Seychelles, and South Sudan) expected to grow above 5% in both 2022 and 2023. Growth will likely be subdued in Comoros, Somalia, and Sudan below 3% in 2022, while all the East African countries (except Comoros and Eritrea) should experience a growth rate of more than 4% in 2023.

South Sudan: impact of floods (31/10/2022)

Based on needs assessments carried out in the nine affected states, flooding had affected more than 900,000 people as at 11 October. Floods have damaged or destroyed buildings and transport infrastructure. There have been crop and livestock losses, which could worsen food insecurity.

Africa's liberation generation (13/11/2022)

Today's African political class is much more diverse in character and aspiration than the one that overcame colonial rule and inaugurated independent governments. Sons of early liberation leaders now jostle for power in a few countries (Chad, Kenya), descendants of successful autocrats perpetuate family rule in others (Gabon), several long-serving hegemons remain in control after decades in office (as in Cameroon, Djibouti, Rwanda and Uganda), a clutch of kleptocrats continue to defraud citizens (as in Equatorial Guinea and Zimbabwe), upstart soldiers oust elected placeholders (Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali), and here and there democratic stalwarts (Botswana, Ghana, Malawi, Senegal, South Africa, Zambia) are delivering authentic, uplifting, leadership to their followers.

Regulatory challenges in Africa: An Empirical Analysis (13/11/2022)

Regulation as a tool for pursuing equitable national development and the provision of adequate goods and services is an often enigmatic and inadequately understood subject. This book unravels the subject from theory to practice. It explains the rationale for, and objectives of, regulation in several economic sectors and addresses the policy, legal and institutional arrangements and mechanisms normally employed as well as the advantages and pitfalls of alternative approaches. The examples given elucidate these aspects not only on Tanzania and other African countries but also include cases from across the globe.

Regional Economic Outlook for Asia and Pacific: Sailing into Headwings (31/10/2022)

After the strong rebound of 6.5% posted in 2021, growth in Asia and Pacific is expected to moderate to 4.0% in 2022 amid an uncertain global environment and rise to 4.3% in 2023. Inflation has risen above most central bank targets, but is expected to peak in late 2022. As the effects of the pandemic wane, the region faces new headwinds from global financial tightening and an expected slowdown of external demand.

Does Southeast Asia need a new development model? (07/11/2022)

Southeast Asia is one of the most economically and developmentally successful regions in the world. However, the ability of the region’s developing economies to sustain this success is increasingly in question. The key question is does Southeast Asia need a new development model? There are no easy answers.

Supporting Regulatory Reforms in Southeast Asia (26/10/2022)

Regulatory reforms have long been a focus for Southeast Asian nations, often as a way to improve the business climate and policy frameworks for trade and investment. The recent COVID-19 pandemic has spurred countries around the world to review and update their regulatory policies to respond to the current crisis and prepare for the next one.

El camino de la recuperación. ¿Cómo evitar una nueva década perdida? (12/11/2022)

Los actuales desafíos políticos mundiales deberían contribuir a impulsar una renovada presencia de Iberoamérica en los problemas y debates internacionales, aportando ideas y el compromiso con valores universales, así como con el desarrollo de sus recursos económicos y humanos. Además, la presente situación de crisis agrega responsabilidades y oportunidades a la comunidad iberoamericana poseedora de valiosos recursos naturales, en particular agua potable, tierras cultivables, recursos forestales, minerales y energéticos, que le permiten constituirse en socios activos en la recuperación y el desarrollo económico y social del mundo.

Perspectivas para las Américas: navegando condiciones financieras más restrictivas (07/11/2022)

La evolución económica reciente en las Américas ha estado dominada por el impacto de dos shocks mundiales distintos: la pandemia de COVID19 y luego la invasión de Rusia a Ucrania. Un tercer shock —el endurecimiento de las condiciones financieras— está ahora incidiendo en las perspectivas.

La participación electoral de los pueblos indígenas y afrodescendientes en América Latina: resultados de las misiones de observación electoral de la Organización de Estados Americanos (11/11/2022)

El libro recoge una serie de investigaciones de gran valor empírico que hasta ahora no eran accesibles al público: informes elaborados por los especialistas en participación política de pueblos indígenas y afrodescendientes de varias Misiones de Observación Electoral desplegadas por la Organización de Estados Americanos en los últimos años. Bajo el paraguas institucional de la OEA, los autores de los informes tuvieron acceso a documentación y a informantes (políticos de alto nivel, candidatos) al que los investigadores académicos normalmente no suelen poder acceder.

China-Latin America and the Caribbean: Assessment and Outlook (11/11/2022)

Written by experts across three continents, contributions to this edited volume explore the bilateral relations that China has developed with almost all Latin American and Caribbean countries, charting both the benefits they have brought and the problems that these relations have created for local actors. The book analyses the emergence of new forms of "dependence", considers issues such as the existence of a deindustrialization phenomenon throughout Latin America and ultimately questions whether China and the United States are engaged in a zero-sum game in the region.

“Like A Prison Convoy”: Russia’s Unlawful Transfer And Abuse of Civilians In Ukraine During ‘Filtration’ (12/11/2022)

Russian and Russian-controlled forces have committed war crimes and likely crimes against humanity by unlawfully transferring or deporting civilians from certain occupied parts of Ukraine. Russian and Russian-controlled authorities also forced civilians through an abusive screening process known as ‘filtration,’ where some were arbitrarily detained, subject to torture or other ill-treatment, and separated from their children.

The impact of the war in Ukraine and subsequent economic downturn on child poverty in eastern Europe (08/11/2022)

Data from 22 countries across the region featured in the study shows children are bearing the heaviest burden of the economic crisis caused by the war in Ukraine. While children make up 25% of the population, they account for nearly 40% of the additional 10.4 million people experiencing poverty this year.

The Environmental Impact of the Ukraine Conflict: A Preliminary Review (28/10/2022)

The report presents a snapshot – but by no means a comprehensive picture – of the damage inflicted on Ukraine’s environment and the potential environmental and public health impacts, informing priorities for field-level verification work. Initial information shows that Ukraine, already burdened by a host of legacy environmental challenges, is now facing a compounded, multi-dimensional environmental crisis that has either exacerbated existing issues or added new ones.

Rapid Assessment of the War’s Impact on Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in Ukraine (08/11/2022)

This report focuses on the current status of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises business activity across different regions and industries, on critical challenges and issues caused by the war and on significant changes that have occurred compared to the pre-war period.

A trade hope: The role of the Black Sea Grain Initiative in bringing Ukrainian grain to the world (08/11/2022)

This report shows how the Black Sea Grain Initiative signed in July 2022 to resume exports of Ukrainian grain via the Black Sea amid the ongoing war has offered hope and shown the power of trade in times of crisis. Thanks to the initiative, port activity in Ukraine is picking up and large shipments of grain are reaching world markets.

L’Ukraine, 28e État membre ? (27/10/2022)

Le processus complexe de l’adhésion d’un État de 603 500 kilomètres carrés et 45 millions d’habitants est-il une réponse adéquate à la détresse d’un pays en guerre ? Est-ce bien aider l’Ukraine qu’apporter une réponse à long terme à un problème de sécurité qui se pose avec une très grande acuité à court terme ? Même en faisant la part des circonstances, une Union qui n’a pas d’armée est-elle bien placée pour peser sur un rapport de forces de nature militaire?

Russia, Ukraine and state survival through neutrality (04/11/2022)

This article draws on the security policies of one-time neutral countries like Austria, Finland and Moldova, to probe the case for Ukraine as a sovereign but potentially neutral state. For Ukraine, a form of armed neutrality outside NATO could be a way to preserve sovereignty and statehood beyond the current war with Russia. The article has implications for western policy-making on the Russia-Ukraine war.

Regional Economic Outlook: Middle East and Central Asia (13/11/2022)

In a worsening global environment, economies in the Middle East and Central Asia are being buffeted by a confluence of shocks: a global slowdown, high and volatile food and energy prices, faster and stronger than expected tightening of financial conditions, and the risk of fragmentation. The region’s emerging market and middle-income economies and low-income countries are hit hard, with many facing curtailed access to market financing, while oil-exporting countries are being buffered by still-high energy prices.

Promoting Inclusive Growth in the Middle East and North Africa: Challenges and Opportunities in a Post-Pandemic World (13/11/2022)

Despite some pre-pandemic gains in poverty reduction, literacy, and lifespans, many economies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have struggled to ensure that the benefits of economic development and diversification accrue equitably to all segments of their populations. Among the main issues that remain unresolved are the high share of inactive youth (who are not engaged in employment, education, or training); large gaps in economic opportunities for women; fragmented social protection systems; and underdeveloped private sectors with tight regulation, absence of a level playing field, and limited access to credit that stifle the creation of new firms and growth, employment, and incomes.

The Sadrist movement in Iraq: Between protest and power politics (28/10/2022)

The authors of this paper present the findings of a bespoke sociological and political survey of more than 1,000 residents of the Baghdad closed district known as Sadr City, and analyse the shifting trajectory of the Sadrist movement and its implications for Iraq.

L'islam politique en Tunisie - Crise identitaire et perspectives séculières (10/11/2022)

Les recherches sur les partis islamistes et les partis démocrates-chrétiens européens restent le plus souvent cloisonnées, donnant lieu à des études monolithiques. Partant, une analyse des trajectoires de l'islamisme tunisien et du parti démocrate-chrétien italien comble ce déficit et révèle les limites du nouveau projet islamiste. Conscient de sa nouvelle conjoncture, le parti actualise son approche du fait politique en renouvelant ses modalités de recrutement et d'endoctrinement. Ce livre insiste sur le rôle matriciel des espaces de socialisation (universités, prison...) dans l'édulcoration progressive de l'idéologie intransigeante primaire et sa mutation des deux côtés de la Méditerranée.

Pacific Aid Map 2022 (07/11/2022)

The Lowy Institute Pacific Aid Map is an analytical tool designed to enhance aid effectiveness in the Pacific by improving coordination, alignment and accountability of foreign aid through enhanced transparency of aid flows. The Pacific Aid Map has collected data on more than 57,000 projects and activities across all the Pacific Islands from 67 donors from 2008 onwards. This raw data has been made freely available on this interactive platform, allowing users to drill down and manipulate the data in a variety of ways.

Tonga: Fact Sheet (13/11/2022)

Tonga faces many of the challenges typical in small island economies, including geographic isolation, limited human and financial resources, and high costs of doing business and providing basic services. The economy has a narrow base, dependent on inflows of remittances and external assistance and is vulnerable to external shocks. Tonga’s economy had a 2.4% averaged growth rate during fiscal years 2015–2019 ending in June. The gross domestic product contracted by 0.8% in fiscal year 2020 and 5.3% in fiscal year 2021 are, due to the impacts of disasters and the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.

A Proposed UK Party Manifesto Section on Global Cooperation (26/10/2022)

Global development is a collective enterprise, and multilateral institutions leverage UK resources. In addition, overseas development assistance usually has its greatest impact when it is used in developing countries by the people living in those countries. Aid also has its greatest impact on global poverty if spent in the world’s poorest countries.

Human development in the EU’s international spending in turbulent times: From words to deeds? (14/07/2021)

Against the backdrop of the conflict, the EU has finalised its programming for much of the €79.5 billion Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument – Global Europe (NDICI-GE). This paper analyses how human development was addressed in the Multi-Annual Indicative programmes (MIPs) in sub-Saharan Africa.

Summary of “Road Map on Statistics for Sustainable Development Goals" (26/07/2022)

This document is a summary of the second edition of the Road Map on Statistics for Sustainable Development Goals, written and published by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe in February 2022.

The Tracker: culture & public policy - Special issue no. 4: Culture and education: the backbone of development (07/10/2022)

Culture and education together are the backbone of human development. Yet culture and education are insufficiently harnessed together as complementary dimensions that can leverage social inclusion, skills acquisition as well as the enhancement of knowledge.

Conflict-related sexual violence: Report of the Secretary-General (07/10/2022)

The term “conflict-related sexual violence”, as used in the present report, refers to rape, sexual slavery, forced prostitution, forced pregnancy, forced abortion, enforced sterilization, forced marriage, and any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity perpetrated against women, men, girls or boys that is directly or indirectly linked to a conflict.

State of the Climate Action 2022 (28/10/2022)

The present report provides a comprehensive assessment of the global gap in climate action across the world’s highest-emitting systems, highlighting where recent progress made in reducing GHG emissions, scaling up carbon removal, and increasing climate finance must accelerate over the next decade to keep the Paris Agreement’s goal to limit warming to 1.5°C within reach.

COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update - Edition 108 (18/02/2022)

Following a gradual increase since October, the global number of new cases increased sharply by 71% as compared to the previous week, while the number of new deaths decreased by 10%. All regions reported an increase in the incidence of weekly cases, with the Region of the Americas reporting the largest increase (100%), followed by the South-East Asia Region (78%) and the European Region (65%).

Outbreak Brief #XX: COVID-19 Pandemic (31/10/2022)

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Urban ecosystem-based adaptation: Regreening cities to tackle climate change (09/11/2022)

Despite some outmigration from the largest cities during the COVID-19 pandemic, urbanization will continue, and by 2035, 62.5% of the world’s population is expected to reside in urban areas. However, given the need to retrofit, replace and upgrade deteriorating urban infrastructure, and to meet the challenges of climate change, including the urban heat island effect, droughts and more intense flooding, many experts and policymakers see in these demands an opportunity to reinvent cities as greener, less prone to pandemics, and more liveable.

Innovation in Africa: Evidence and Implications for Growth and the Transition to High-Income Status (07/10/2022)

For today’s middle-income countries in Africa, innovation is essential to sustain growth and promote the transition to high-income status. This paper begins by providing an in-depth review of the region’s innovation performance during the last three decades.

Shaping the future of regional cooperation in Asia and the Pacific (03/12/2021)

The Asia-Pacific region’s socio-economic progress has been unparalleled over the past 75 years. Continuously falling rates of poverty, rising level of socio-economic welfare and growing scale of innovation are a testament to the instrumental role of policies, pragmatism and political-economy approaches in this region.

Aid for Trade in Asia and the Pacific: Leveraging Trade and Digital Agreements for Sustainable Development (09/10/2022)

This report explores how aid for trade can be modernized to support Asia and the Pacific’s recovery from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals.

Presentation of the HRBA Virtual Toolbox (19/01/2022)

Presentation Of The HRBA Virtual Toolbox

Biodiversity & forestry: opportunities for a Green Recovery (19/01/2022)

Biodiversity & forestry Challenges and opportunities for a Green Recovery

Test for index (11/02/2022)

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OPSYS - Encoding Logframes and results: Panel discussion with experts (28/01/2022)

This interactive webinar will focus on Interventions and Results Reporting in OPSYS and give you the opportunity to ask questions to a panel of experts. The same content will be presented in English, French and Spanish. The webinar in English will take place on Friday, 28 January 2022 from 08.30 am to 10.30 am CET. Don't miss it!

Encoding Interventions and Logframes in OPSYS (20/01/2022)

Encoding Interventions And Logframes In OPSYS

Sub-delegations, planning and reporting (19/01/2022)

Sub-delegations, planning and reporting