Investing in the future

The situation in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is escalating once again. It has the potential to drag the entire region into it. The global community must take a stand, not least because the conflict centres on resources we all rely on.

US-Präsident Trump war noch keine Woche im Amt, da hatte seine Regierung bereits die Arbeit von USAID auf Eis gelegt. Der Zerstörungsprozess lässt sich verlangsamen, aber nicht mehr aufhalten. Was die deutsche Entwicklungspolitik jetzt tun kann.

US President Donald Trump had been in office for less than one week when his administration put the work of USAID on ice. The destruction can be slowed, but no longer stopped. What German development policy can do now.

Development needs funding – but where does it come from? Key figures on global development finance and the financing for development process.

Never heard of “blended finance”? And what does “domestic resource mobilisation” actually mean? With the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) just around the corner, we explain some of the key terms used in development finance.

Spending more on interest payments than on education or health is normal in many poorer countries today. How international debt policy should change – and why the FfD4 conference is the right place to do so.

The group has been positioning itself as an advocate of the global south. While the changing role of the USA may indeed create room for the bloc to manoeuvre, continued expansion of BRICS+ is creating new challenges.

The largest single donor worldwide has halted its development cooperation: funding for USAID has been frozen for 90 days. These actions by the US president are already costing human lives. The global community must save what it can.

Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim is an Indigenous Peoples representative at high-level international conferences. She is convinced that if donor countries cut development and climate funding, they will pay the price in the long term.

At the first D+C Roundtable, we spoke to private sector experts about the opportunities and challenges of private sector involvement in development financing – a topic becoming more important given the current decline in public development financing.