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Aid & Relief


Finland’s prime minister on why innovation alone can’t tackle the climate crisis
Sanna Marin, World Economic Forum| Climate change and biodiversity loss are the most pressing challenges of our time, so all responsible...


Which country has made the biggest climate commitment?
Fiona Harvey , The Guardian| Some countries are working on this but other countries appear to be failing: the UK, for instance, has...


India’s Smart Vaccine Diplomacy
Shashi Tharoor, Project Syndicate| As countries scramble to secure supplies in the face of "vaccine race," India has enhanced its global...


Reflections on the 10th Anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake
Michael J. Green & Nicholas Szechenyi, Center for Strategic and International Studies| March 11 marks the 10th anniversary of the...


Lithuania’s Outreach to Taiwan Is Another Blow to China’s Europe Diplomacy
Shannon Tiezzi, The Diplomat | Lithuania plans to open a representative’s office in Taiwan, a government spokesperson told Reuters this...


Infographic | Climate and conflict
Matus Samel, The Economist | Climate change has resulted in slow-onset changes – notably gradual temperature increases, rising sea...


Insights on China’s 2021 White Paper on International Development Cooperation
Anthea Mulakala & Ji Hongbo, The Asia Foundation| On January 10, the State Council Information Office of the People’s Republic of China...


The Biden Administration Should Prevent an ‘Atrocity Famine’ in Yemen
Jennie Sowers and Erika Weinthal, Foreign Policy | The UN has labeled Yemen the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. After declaring an end...


Protecting Lower-Income Countries with COVID-19 Vaccines Requires Global Solidarity
Anuradha Gupta, Gavi | Vaccination is a crucial tool in halting the pandemic. With many wealthy countries already rolling out COVID-19...


Opinion: Global food systems can only be truly transformed with a people’s summit
Agnes Kalibata, Devex | Long before the emergence of COVID-19, it was well-accepted that the world was off-course to achieve most of the...


COVAX plans to distribute more than 330 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to developing nations
Nectar Gan, CNN | The COVAX initiative for equitable global access to Covid-19 vaccines has announced its plan to distribute more than...


COVAX releases country-by-country vaccine distribution figures
Sara Jerving, Devex | Countries involved in the COVAX Facility, the global initiative aimed at equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines,...


Why it's time for international development to put people first
Wendy Kopp, World Economic Forum | It is high time for international development actors to shift their approach from defining problems...


Food Innovation Hubs Put Farmers at Head of the Table for Systems Change
Modern Diplomacy | To meet the SDG and change the way food is produced and consumed, the World Economic Forum, the Government of...


Opinion: Don’t go it alone — how Biden can engage development partnerships
Kristen Cordell, DEVEX | There is significant potential for strong bilateral partnerships to advance U.S. development objectives in areas...


Food Insecurity Crises at Home and Abroad: Why Biden Must Lead on Both
Caitlin Welsh, CSIS | The coronavirus pandemic will have caused the most severe global food security crisis in recent history. How the...


Poverty, Conflict and Political–Economic Crisis in a Fragile Iraq
Zeinab F. Shuker, EPC | Iraq’s economic outlook has rapidly deteriorated since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. For many years,...


International Donors Are Complicit in Middle Eastern Elites’ Game
David Linfield, Carnegie | By pushing economic liberalization in the Middle East without requiring transparency and fighting corruption,...


Six humanitarian lessons from the COVID-19 crisis
United Nations / OCHA 2020 showed us the consequences of not cooperating, said participants of the UN humanitarian agency OCHA’s annual...


China, Japan, and Korea: “Cleaner” Than the Worst Coal Plants, but Nowhere Near “Clean” Energy
Cecilia Han Springer & Dinah Shi - Wilson Center The convergence of environmental pressures and economic recession due to the COVID-19...


UN secretary general urges all countries to declare climate emergencies
Fiona Harvey /The Guardian Governments around the world should all declare a state of climate emergency until the world has reached net...


What the People Want Is Climate Leadership
Ambroise Fayolle, Project Syndicate| Now that the world's leading greenhouse-gas emitters are committed to achieving carbon-neutrality by...


Can Europe Recover Its Youth?
Elisabeth Von Hammerstein, Claudia Gamon &Yana Ehm, Project Syndicate| Many young Europeans today are disappointed and frustrated by the...


China’s Humanitarian Aid: Cooperation amidst Competition
Jacob Kurtzer, Center for Strategic and International Studies | In response to the spread of Covid-19, China has deployed medical teams...


Japanese technology to Fight Covid-19 in Asia and Africa
Newsroom, Moderndiplomacy | Japanese technology and products will help countries in Africa and Asia limit the impact of the COVID-19...


COVID-19: Slow road to jobs recovery for Latin America and the Caribbean
Economic Development, UN NEWS | The labour market in Latin America and the Caribbean faces a slow recovery after the COVID-19 pandemic,...


Purchasing COVID-19 Vaccines: Analysis of Costs and Benefits for Latin America and the Caribbean
Inter-american Development Bank | There are major gains to accelerating access to a COVID-19 vaccine. The World Bank predicts a...


Environmental Diplomacy: China’s Attitude and Effort Towards Climate Change
Sweta Chalise, Modern Diplomacy With the rapid process of industrialization and modernization, there has been a notable increase in...


The Case for Ecological Realism
Stewart M. Patrick, WPR The time has come for the nations of the world to embrace a new approach to world politics that treats the...


Humanitarian aid: EU announces €24 million in Uganda amid coronavirus pandemic
European commission The EU will provide €24 million in humanitarian assistance for the most vulnerable people in Uganda in 2020, with a...


Security Council extends for one year, lifesaving cross-border aid to Syria
UN News The Security Council has authorized one year, cross-border humanitarian aid to allow the delivery of food, medicine and other...


Cross-IGO content tracker
SDG Pathfinder This collection of data and reports covers topics related to the role and effectiveness of various policy tools in...


Coronavirus and aid: What we’re watching
The New Humanitarian A snapshot of how COVID-19 has disrupted aid efforts around the globe- There are early signs of what postponed...


Why the Compacts of Free Association Matter to Washington
Grant Wyeth, The Diplomat With its eyes on China, the United States seeks to reaffirm its presence in the western Pacific. Last week,...


COVID-19 pandemic to transform China-Africa relations
Chiponda Chimbelu, DW The coronavirus outbreak has revealed cracks in the China-Africa dynamic. Gone are the days of Chinese big loans...


Covid-19 Impact: Singapore to fund rooftop farms to increase food security
EurAsian Times Desk, EurAsian Times Amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, city-state Singapore is accelerating its plan to increase its...


Protect livelihoods during COVID-19 or risk a boom in aid-dependency
International Committee of the Red Cross New survey data serves as a warning that economic hardships brought about by the COVID-19...


The UN says a new computer simulation tool could boost global development
MIT Technology Review In 2015, UN member states signed up for a set of 17 sustainable-development goals that are due to be reached by...


Supercharging Sustainable Development
Sean O'Neill, The Alan Turing Institute A bold new approach to development economics, championed by the Turing and the United Nations...


Kenya Gets $1 Billion Financing From World Bank
David Herbling, Bloomberg TheWorld Bank will lend Kenya’s government $1 billion in budget support, its biggest financing package yet for...


Unprecedented World Health Assembly Convenes Online As Pandemic Rages
Jason Beaubien, NPR The 73rd World Health Assembly took place over teleconference with the main focus being the fight against the...


Turkey's aid diplomacy
Hilal Kaplan, Daily Sabah “On one hand, Turkey is dealing with the coronavirus pandemic on a national scale, it is also consolidating its...


A Post-Pandemic Revival for Regionalism: The Role of the EU
Yaroslav Lissovolik, Valdai Discussion Club The current international economic system is stress-tested by a series of systemic challenges...


China ramps up COVID-19 diplomacy in Mideast
Sabena Siddiqui, Al-Monitor As the Trump administration tries to link the coronavirus to a Chinese laboratory, Beijing is using the...


China continues to cut back Latin America loans
Robert Soutar, Modern Diplomacy For the fourth consecutive year, China’s two main banks tasked with financing overseas development have...


‘Can’t fight COVID-19 alone’: ASEAN leaders call for collaboration in food security and open trade
Pearly Neo, Food Navigator-Asia.com Country leaders of all the member states comprising the Association of Southeast Asian Nations...


WTO and IMF urge nations to lift trade restrictions amid COVID-19 pandemic
Jacob Dougherty, Jurist The heads of the international agencies said that the trade restrictions on supplies used to fight COVID-19 could...


AfDB calls for strong US, Africa partnership beyond COVID-19
Ernest Chanda, The Mast The African Development Bank (AfDB) has called for sustainable partnerships between the US and Africa that should...


Egypt sends military plane filled with medical aid to help U.S. with coronavirus
Michelle Boorstein and Sudarsan Raghavan, The Washington Post Egypt sent medical supplies to the United States as part of efforts to aid...


Aid has failed. COVID-19 both exposes this and offers the chance for a reset.
Bobi Wine & Greg Mills, African Arguments Coronavirus has laid bare the failures of aid. Instead of it being wasted or used to prop up...
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