22-May-2023
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On the occasion of Africa Independence Day, this symposium by the OECD Development Centre and Minnesota Africans United (MAU) will bring together leaders, policy makers, businesspeople and diasporic groups, to share examples of the many ways diasporas have engaged in private sector development and the ways they mutually benefit both their mother countries in Africa and their new home countries.
12-April-2023
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Because ODA is a scarce resource for financing development, it is important to ensure it reaches the countries and people that need it most.
17-January-2023
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As development agencies switch their emphasis from supporting individual projects to providing support for broad policies and strategies, strategic environmental assessments are becoming more urgent. We work with the Strategic Environmental Assessment Network to produce guidance notes on a more harmonised, effective approach to SEA.
16-November-2022
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Our events are opportunities to interact with major actors and thinkers on development issues.
1-May-2022
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More than three billion people rely on the ocean for their livelihoods, the vast majority in developing countries. In many of those, ocean-based industries such as tourism and fisheries are key sources of income and jobs. Too often, however, these have expanded without sufficient consideration for environmental and social sustainability, creating low paying jobs and leading to environmental degradation.
14-October-2021
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Join us for two weeks of live events, as we bring together leading thinkers and policy experts who will share insights and data on accelerating climate action to reach the goals of the Paris Agreement.
10-May-2021
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We advocate for a systems approach to the extension and reform of social protection programmes and financing tools: coherent programmes, co-ordinated institutions, shared administrative systems, and an efficient allocation of financial resources.
10-May-2021
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Around 70% of the world’s workers depend on the informal economy for their livelihoods. Most of them live and work in low and middle-income countries, where extending and adapting social protection systems is challenging.
1-April-2021
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Even before the COVID-19 crisis stopped the continent’s economic growth in its tracks, Africa was facing a deficit in domestic and foreign productive investment. Levels were too low to either match the needs of a fast growing, increasingly urban, working-age population, or improve the insertion of the continent in the global economy.
24-March-2021
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Infrastructure — such as water and sanitation, transport, energy and communications — is fundamental for economic growth, poverty reduction and human development.