Development Policy

This topic deals with general and transversal development policy issues such as the Agenda for Change, the MDGS and the Post-2015 global framework, or research for development.

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Millennium Development Goals - Policy coherence for development - Policy making - South-South cooperation - Sustainable development - Sustainable Development Goals - Triangular cooperation

EU Action Plan against Wildlife Trafficking: Lessons Learned, Challenges, and Opportunities

Arnaud Goessens created a new event | 5 months ago

03 Mar

From 3 March 2022
Organised by United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)

On the occasion of World Wildlife Day, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) invite you to join a virtual dialogue on 3rd March 2022 / 2:00-4:00 pm CET that will present lessons learned and discuss challenges and opportunities for a renewed...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Jan GOOSSENAERTS commented on a wiki page | 5 months ago

How do we measure inequality?

Unequal opportunities due to lack of online content in mother tongue. In February 2011 I defined a Wikipedia-Manx benchmark considering that Manx, spoken at Isle of Man, with only about a hundred competent speakers, had a Manx Wikipedia with 3734 articles. So I looked up the online content...

Group: Fighting Inequalities through development cooperation and stronger partnerships
Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa: What do we know so far?

Dimitrios Chaidas updated the Information | 5 months ago

The complexities of inequality include poverty and a weakening of social cohesion. If inequality is to be successfully combatted, an in-depth understanding of these issues is essential. The problem is that stakeholders are still missing key elements to drive effective public policies. Measures of...

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Group: Fighting Inequalities through development cooperation and stronger partnerships
Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa: What do we know so far?

Dimitrios Chaidas updated the Information | 5 months ago

The complexities of inequality include poverty and a weakening of social cohesion. If inequality is to be successfully combatted, an in-depth understanding of these issues is essential. The problem is that stakeholders are still missing key elements to drive effective public policies. Measures of...

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Group: Fighting Inequalities through development cooperation and stronger partnerships
Culture at the Heart of Sustainable Development in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities

Brussels UNESCO created a new event | 5 months ago

17 Feb

From 17 February 2022
Organised by UNESCO

As part of the Africa - Europe Week , UNESCO organizes the side event 'Culture at the Heart of Sustainable Development in Africa - Challenges and Opportunities' on 17 January 2022 (15:30 - 16:30 CET). UNESCO and the European Union (EU) have been longstanding supporters of policy development and...

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Group: UNESCO
Virtual panel: Policies for Creativity: Making a Lasting Difference

Brussels UNESCO created a new event | 5 months ago

10 Feb

From 10 February 2022

In the framework of the celebration of the 10-year strategic partnership between UNESCO and the European Union and the final stage of the project “ EU/UNESCO Expert Facility on the Governance of Culture in Developing Countries: supporting new regulatory frameworks to strengthen the cultural and...

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Group: UNESCO
COVID-19 Resources

Zena Mouawad updated the WIKI page | 28 January 2022

The coronavirus pandemic is a crisis that requires unprecedent efforts from a truly global response. No one yet knows how long it will take and how its impacts will shape the future of our societies, but learning from concrete and practical guidance to social protection bridging humanitarian and...

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Group: Social protection across the humanitarian-development nexus
The SDGs require a stronger role for culture in development

Gijs DE VRIES posted Information | 25 January 2022

In 2015, world leaders pledged to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels. They also promised to eradicate poverty and hunger, to secure peace and prosperity, to protect the planet, and to leave no one behind. Today , both the Paris agreement and the Sustainable...

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Group: Culture in Development Cooperation
Culture in the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Gijs DE VRIES updated the Information | 25 January 2022

New Publication English edition Gijs de Vries (2020), Culture in the Sustainable Development Goals: the Role of the European Union (Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen); https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/69719 French edition Gijs de Vries (2020), : La culture dans les Objectifs...

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Group: Culture in Development Cooperation
On Motivations and Contributions of Development Organisations to Meeting SDGs through International Volunteering

Boba Markovic Baluchova posted Information | 20 December 2021

Sending international volunteers to Global South countries is one of the forms of Official Development Assistance (ODA) used by most traditional donors. In the case of the Slovak Republic, it is also an instrument of its foreign policy, which also seeks to support development in the programme and...

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Group: EU DEAR Programme Group

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