Financing SDGs: Is humanitarian aid causing a diversion?
This article looks at how a higher flow of humanitarian assistance has influenced the development finance discourse.
Equal opportunities through access to mathematical knowledge
Who doesn’t remember math class in school as a source of anxiety and insecurity? Math and science in general [...]
State Capability, Policymaking and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Do Knowledge Systems Matter?
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is already here… challenges are as huge and varied as opportunities: are we ready [...]
Is blended finance trending in the LDCs? Perspectives from the ground
Blended finance is picking up as a new source of finance to meet the funding gap in implementing SDGs. [...]
Tackling Development Effectiveness: A spectrum of unfinished business(es)
The need to broaden focus and attention from ‘aid effectiveness’ to ‘development effectiveness’ has gained momentum with Busan HLF4. But what development effectiveness means specifically and what framework accounts for the intended shift have yet to be articulated.
New Development Landscape and its Challenges
This blog post looks at the challenges and shifts that the development landscape has experienced over the last decade. It argues for the need for developing a new methodological framework for assessing development effectiveness.
Harnessing Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for Development Effectiveness
The question of whether and how Big Data could help donors, policymakers, and development professionals to get a better sense of the effectiveness of development has become more relevant.
Five Questions for New Metrics to Assess Development Effectiveness
There is an urgent need to revisit the metrics of assessing development effectiveness of development cooperation. It is underpinned by significant changes in recent times regarding the concept of development effectiveness, and the emerging new modalities of development cooperation.
Need for International Support Measures for Graduating LDCs
A rising number of countries will be leaving the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) group in the coming decades. There is [...]
The time is ripe for Southern Perspectives
Originally published by On Think Tanks As the Think Tank Initiative ends, Andrea Ordonez was invited to give the keynote [...]