Hintergrund

The group has been positioning itself as an advocate of the global south. While the changing role of the USA may indeed create room for the bloc to manoeuvre, continued expansion of BRICS+ is creating new challenges.

Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim is an Indigenous Peoples representative at high-level international conferences. She is convinced that if donor countries cut development and climate funding, they will pay the price in the long term.

International donors are withdrawing, and nationalism has more momentum than multilateralism. What will the consequences be? A look into the future of development financing with Achim Steiner.

At the first D+C Roundtable, we spoke to private sector experts about the opportunities and challenges of private sector involvement in development financing – a topic becoming more important given the current decline in public development financing.

Macarena Sáez of Human Rights Watch explains why the fight for women’s rights is also a fight for democracy – and how women around the world are uniting to move forward.

Ghanaian scholar assesses relevance of USAID and ECOWAS

In Cameroon, hundreds of thousands of children have not been able to go to school for years due to the violence in the English-speaking regions of the country. The fact that the EU is providing more funding gives hope – but is far from sufficient.

Our author expects Ghana’s government to finally rise to its responsibilities.

The informal second-hand clothing tade offers women livelihoods, but it is marked by serious risks.

In Algeria’s conservative society, clichés persist that portray female students as sexually available and unmarriageable. The consequences for young, aspiring women are devastating.