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Building resilience in protracted crises requires flexible, people-centred approaches that work with the context in which they are being implemented. Drawing on five years of SPARC Ideas research, these new policy briefs from ODI Global Risks and Resilience researchers Simon Levine and Emma Gogerty (née Lovell) share practical insights for advancing disaster risk reduction, early warning systems and anticipatory action in conflicts and recurring crises. 👇

Today marks 80 years since the United Nations Charter entered into force – a landmark moment that set out to safeguard peace, foster cooperation, and uphold the rights and dignity of all people. But eight decades on, the very foundations of the UN’s mission are being tested on multiple fronts: intensifying geopolitical rivalries, the climate crisis, record levels of forced displacement, eroding trust in multilateralism, and a growing disregard for international humanitarian law. In a recent episode of Think Change, Natalie Samarasinghe (former CEO of the United Nations Association - UK) reflected on how the UN’s limited successes raise a pressing question: can the institution still deliver on its promise, or is it time for a new vision to take hold? Listen to the full episode: https://buff.ly/YE2wn7p #UNDay #UN80 #UNReform #ThinkChangePodcast

Finance ministries are central to fiscal governance, but how do they organise to generate and use the evidence that shapes decisions? Our new working paper explores research and policy units in four African Ministries of Finance – South Africa, Uganda, Zambia and Sierra Leone – mapping how evidence is produced, analysed and applied. It introduces a framework for usable evidence built on four attributes: empirical data, analytical insights, generalisable findings and policy relevance. Far from being marginal, these units reflect how finance ministries engage with today's biggest challenges including climate adaption, gender equity and digital transformation. Read more: https://buff.ly/MGwf6FK 🔗 #Evidence #PublicFinance #FiscalPolicy

As aid cuts threaten humanitarian monitoring, a new article in The Independent featuring our Research Fellow Simon Levine warns against AI-based models replacing hunger monitoring systems ⬇️ #FoodInsecurity #Famine #AI

Several countries formally recognised Palestinian statehood at last month's UN General Assembly. But this means little without justice, accountability and self-determination – all of which remain absent for Palestinians, who have endured over two years of genocidal attacks and decades of violence, occupation and displacement. A new episode of Think Change asks what it will take to turn recognition into real justice, sovereignty and dignity for Palestinians. What should the international community be doing to support these efforts, at at time when Trump's so-called 'Board of Peace' appears to put Palestinian futures under external control? Nimer Sultany (SOAS University of London), Nomi Bar-Yaacov (international lawyer), and Sultan BARAKAT (Hamad Bin Khalifa University) join our host Sara Pantuliano to explore these urgent questions.   Listen here, or find the show on your podcast app: https://lnkd.in/eg-Y-UKS 🎧   #ThinkChangePodcast #Palestine #Statehood #PostConflictReconstruction #Diplomacy

At the IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings last week, COP30 hosts Brazil launched the ‘Circle of Finance Ministers’ – a landmark report which compiles years of analyses, ideas and proposals on climate finance. Bringing together 35 countries, it makes the economic case for climate investment around five strategic priorities, and sets out how the world could achieve the new global climate finance target of $1.3 trillion a year by 2035. And whilst not every country endorsed every idea in the report, it has already achieved something vital by making some finance ministries engage seriously with climate finance for the first time. In a new blog, our Visiting Senior Fellow Michael Jacobs examines the impact this "new bible of climate finance" could have on COP30 and beyond: https://lnkd.in/eu8MjFPV 🖊️ #COP30 #ClimateFinance #CircleOfFinanceMinisters

We're at the 4th Ministerial Conference on Feminist Foreign Policy (#FFP4) in Paris this week, where tomorrow we're teaming up with Alliance for Feminist Movements and French Ministry of Foreign Affairs for a dialogue about the state of multilateralism. 🌐 Moderated by Ján Michalko, PhD and pulled together by Emilie Tant, an exceptional panel will join us to dive into the current issues plaguing multilateral cooperation, and explore what FFP can offer to a new vision of multilateralism. In this session, we’ll be joined by: • Esmeralda da Silva Mendonça - Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Angola • Arlene B. Tickner - Ambassador-at-Large for Gender Equality, Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs • Ethel Davis – Ambassador-at-Large to the Policy Advisory Council of the The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Liberia • Ana María Alonso Giganto – Ambassador for Feminist Foreign Policy for the Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, Unión Europea y Cooperación • Ruvendrini Menikdiwela – Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency) • Stephanie Oula – Director of UN & Civil Society Engagement, Women and Girls Strategy, UNFoundation We hope to see you there! Rachel Jacobson | Delphine O | Yasmine Janah | Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative #FeministForeignPolicy #GlobalDiplomacy #GenderEquality

How much do countries actually invest in justice, and are those funds delivering real justice outcomes for people? Our new policy brief provides the latest global data (2022–24) on justice financing, domestic budgets and aid trends. In an era of global fiscal pressure and growing inequality, this data offers critical benchmarks to support governments and donors in making justice spending more effective, equitable, and sustainable. It underpins the Justice Action Coalition’s draft Justice Financing Framework (JFF), which aims to achieve more money for justice and more justice for the money. Key findings: 📍 Aid for justice has dropped from 3.1% to 1.1% of global aid since 2012, with another 40% drop expected by 2026. 📍Domestic spending patterns are stable, but outcomes depend on how resources are used. 📍The JFF suggests at least 2.5% of total expenditure on justice should go to front-line services like legal advice and informal dispute resolution, yet many countries invest as little as 0.1%. 📍To modernise delivery, countries should invest a minimum of 0.5% of justice spending in research and development – at present, research makes up just 0.09% of justice spending globally. Read more: https://buff.ly/us04N2C #JusticeFinance #GlobalDevelopment #AccessToJustice

Multilateral development banks (MDBs) could unlock up to $800 billion more in lending for global development without losing their AAA rating, according to S&P Global's new methodology announced at last week's Annual Meetings. Our Senior Research Associate Chris Humphrey breaks down what this might mean, and why other leading rating agencies should also revise their methodologies for rating MDBs ⬇️ #ReformMDBs #MDBs #AnnualMeetings2025

Most international NGOs say they want to 'localise', but are they serious and do they know how to do it? Based on on decades of experience working in the sector, a new book by our Principal Research Fellow Dr Sinead Walsh sets out 10 lessons in localisation. It reveals the structural issues that are preventing organisations from reaching their aims to 'localise', and what needs to change for NGOs to walk the talk. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/eXUwjwyH 📘 #Localisation #GlobalDevelopment