
Key messages: • There was broad, cautiously optimistic support for the New Compact, with participants seeing potential in its key pillars, but doubting donor commitment. • Challenges in coordinating...
Key messages: • There was broad, cautiously optimistic support for the New Compact, with participants seeing potential in its key pillars, but doubting donor commitment. • Challenges in coordinating...
Steven Goldfinch Internal displacement—that is the forced movement of people within the country they live in—is at crisis levels. There were 46.9 million internal displacements, or movements,...
UK + 1 more
By Ian Mitchell and Sam Hughes In-donor refugee costs—the cost of supporting refugees and asylum seekers within the UK—now account for almost 30 percent of the UK’s entire foreign aid budget. In the...
young mother living in a rural area of a low-income country struggles to access basic health services for herself and her children. Her country’s high rate of HIV and AIDS has drawn the attention of...
Earlier in November, representatives from more than 100 countries attended the First Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence against Children. The event marked a significant milestone,...
India + 1 more
By Eeshani Kandpal and Teresa Molina Safety nets play an important role in humanitarian crises. For instance, the demonstrated success of cash transfers in refugee communities reveal the benefits of...
World + 15 more
By Amina Mendez Acosta and Biniam Bedasso As school meal programmes continue to expand globally, so too is the body of evidence from impact evaluations. Given the multiplicity of objectives and the...
By Koldo Echebarria This paper presents an overview of significant policy, financial, and operational challenges encountered by multilateral development banks (MDBs) in fragile and conflict-affected...
How Do Pakistani Parents’ Preferences Drive Investments in Their Girls? By Rossella Calvi, Hira Farooqi and Eeshani Kandpal The traditional economics model for human capital accumulation says that...
Kehinde Ajayi et Estelle Koussoubé, éditrices Messages clés L’Afrique détient la clé de sa prospérité : investir dans le potentiel économique inexploité des adolescentes. Pour réussir, les...
Kehinde Ajayi and Estelle Koussoubé, Editors Key Messages Africa holds the key to its own prosperity: investing in the untapped economic potential of adolescent girls. To succeed, adolescent girls...
World + 12 more
Executive Summary Across the developing world, decades of growth in primary and secondary school enrolment have begun to taper off. Millions of kids who are enrolled nevertheless fail to acquire...
DR Congo + 4 more
by Orin Levine, Javier Guzman and Janeen Madan Keller The recent surge in mpox cases across Africa, including in previously unaffected countries, brought a powerful call for an increase in resources...
by Kelsey Harris, Ankita Panda, Florencia Caro Sachetti, Kinza Hasan, Eleanor Blomstrom and Foteini Papagioti This note is a co-publication of the Center for Global Development, the Asia Foundation,...
Who should set priorities in global health? Last year CGD authors made the case for a greater role for country-led priority-setting, with a stronger influence on aid, referred to as a “New Compact”...
Key messages There are important public financial management (PFM) considerations for the New Compact, across all budget cycle phases, but particularly budget formulation. Providing most health aid...
As Gavi embarks on its next strategic phase, “Gavi 6.0,” it faces multiple challenges: shifting donor priorities, rising costs of new vaccines, incomplete vaccine coverage, and economic constraints...
by Solomon Tessema Memirie, Anastassia Demeshko, Mizan Habtemichael, Tesfaye Mesele, Amanuel Haileselassie, Pete Baker, Ole Norheim and Tom Drake Recent years have seen health aid play a crucial role...
Mexico + 3 more
By Marc F. Bellemare, Eeshani Kandpal, and Katherina Thomas To What Extent Do Poor Households Use Small, Routine Income Increases to Improve Their Diet? When given additional income, how much do the...
by Victoria Fan, Sun Kim, Diego Pineda and Stefano Bertozzi This paper is co-published by the Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting in Health (BCEPS) at the University of Bergen. The COVID-19...