Items tagged:
Aid spending
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Sleepwalking into COP26 collapse – why the UK must drop its aid cuts
Britain's decision to trim its aid budget sends entirely the wrong message to world leaders – that under-delivering for vulnerable countries is OK
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UK aid cuts threaten climate leadership role of COP26 president
Cuts to the overseas aid budget risk not only undermining the UK’s reputation for progressive development action, but also the chances of the UK presidency delivering a successful outcome to COP26. Sustainable development must be climate resilient: a lower aid spend is in real terms a blow to climate finance and ambition
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When public finance shrinks, what are the priorities for climate action?
Cuts to UK overseas development aid raise critical questions for future climate action, not least whether the promised balance of support for adaptation and mitigation can be maintained. We suggest reforms to the climate finance system that could deliver stronger adaptation results for climate-vulnerable people
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The UK’s backward step on global development
The UK government’s decision to merge DFID with the Foreign Office is a clear sign that tackling poverty in developing countries is no longer a priority. But there is still time to show that its interests benefit from working internationally in partnership to tackle inequality, fragility, climate and nature loss
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Fighting for the future – sustainable development and the battle for ideas in 2017
Following the landmark global agreements on sustainable development sealed in 2015, including the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on climate change, the end of 2016 prompted the question: can the world sustain this hard-fought momentum?
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Making World Bank aid sustainable
Clare Shakya sets out seven ways the World Bank can make its development aid sustainable and inclusive.
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What's happening to aid to the Least Developed Countries?
New figures show an overall decline in aid to the world's Least Developed Countries, yet commitments made in Paris and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda call for more aid, not less
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It's the thought that counts: how can Addis deliver for the world’s poorest?
When the world's leaders meet in Addis to decide how they fund the SDGs, the real question is whether this money will support the world's poorest to shape their own futures
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About the architecture of aid
How can decentralised finance drive sustainable development? A new interactive story produced by IIED's Human Settlements Group highlights successful examples from the global South
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References: how can decentralised finance drive sustainable development?
The interactive presentation on architecture of aid describes two powerful examples of international funds that have supported community-based organisations at scale – the Urban Poor Fund International and the Asian Coalition for Community Action. Here are the sources used
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Development finance and climate finance: achieving zero poverty and zero emissions
Ahead of the Financing for Development conference in Addis, Paul Steele asks whether changes are needed to the way we address climate and development finance
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IIED responds to UK election outcome
IIED hopes the new Conservative government will demonstrate UK leadership on inclusive citizenship and green prosperity on the global stage
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How to ensure that aid empowers urban poor groups
Listen to David Satterthwaite speaking at TEDxHamburg.
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8 points on financing climate change adaptation in urban areas
As the urgency for governments and international agencies to address climate change increases, an expert meeting identified eight key points on finance priorities.
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Moving beyond the preamble to creating a new story at Rio+20
The panelists, Tony Cunningham MP (Labour), Martin Horwood MP (Liberal Democrats),
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Staying south – trade, aid, and the recession
In the global recession, have so called ‘emerging' economies got a toehold in the trade, aid, and investment big-league?
