From momentum against fossil fuels to fires breaking out on site - COP30 was dramatic. Get inside the negotiating rooms with ...

Many will recognise 2025 as the year gender equality and justice took a major hit. This ODI Expert Comment reflects on the ...

This event has finished, watch or listen to the playback below. The report highlights opportunities for cooperation between South African and Chinese institutions — from co-financing and technology ...

After a year of extraordinary upheaval, this special episode looks ahead to the forces set to shape 2026. From deep aid cuts ...

As 2025 draws to a close, Northern donors seem to be in a state of hesitation. The initial shock of the sweeping US aid cuts that unfolded in 2025 (recent estimates suggesting at least $30 billion ...

Research-to-action programme SPARC has six years of experience carrying out research and collecting meaningful data in some of the world’s most fragile places. In this article, researchers share their ...

This event will bring together a variety of actors and implementers working across education, health, and social protection ...

As the team packed their bags for Baku two weeks ago, we highlighted the key sticking points in negotiations over the New Collective Quantified Goal on climate finance – known as the NCQG. These ...

Understanding the impact of ‘localisation’ on strengthening effective and efficient responses to humanitarian crises continues to be a key policy and practice concern for donors and the broader sector ...

Refugee-led organisations (RLOs) are a crucial cog in the refugee-response machine, providing essential services to their communities, as well as being more likely to lead responses that are ...

In May 2016, representatives of 18 donor countries and 16 international aid organisations from the UN, international NGOs and the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement agreed a ‘Grand Bargain’. This ...

This year’s G20 presidency has shifted to South Africa, under which sovereign debt will be a key priority. South Africa is pushing for a review of the G20’s Common Framework (CF) for debt treatments, ...