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Magdalena Ackermann speaks about how the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) is a good example within the United Nations (UN) of how to continue urging for human rights-based and multilateral decision making in global food governance, especially now when 134 million more people, compared to 2019, cannot access a healthy diet.
Set during the Africa Climate Summit/Africa Climate Week SID in collaboration with the Heinrich Boll Foundation and the Next Generation Foresight Practitioner (NGFP) Climate Futures Hub hosted an engaging and transformative forum that looked to the horizon of Africa's energy potential under the banner of "Reimagining Africa's Energy Future: An Intergenerational Visioning Exercise."
Part of SID's Economic Justice team, led by Pooja Rangaprasad and Marisol Ruiz, were present at UNGA78. Highlights included Pooja moderating a panel on international financial reform, Mexico's commitment to co-host the next Financing for Development Conference, and support for a UN Tax Convention
This week’s Finance in Common (FiC) summit of more than 500 public development banks is the latest global north-dominated forum where yet again private capital ‘mobilisation’ is the big priority.
SID's Emily Karanja facilitates a session on the review of the Kampala Inter-Ministerial Conference on Migration, Environment and Climate Change, at the International Organization for Migration's Africa Youth Engagement Forum, held in Nairobi, Kenya.
The End Inequalities Asia project demonstrates the interconnections between inequalities at the national, regional and global levels. Together we are addressing inequalities between countries by working towards a more just global tax system and fighting illicit financial flows.
Take a look at the compilation of thematic and regional briefs on the Financing for Development process. These documents were developed based on collective work by the Civil Society FfD (Financing for Development) Mechanism experts. From Debt, to Taxes and Private Finances you'll learn all of the basic elements that make up the international financial architecture as it is today, and understand why it is imperative to have a systemic reform.
Learn more about our oncerns regarding the direction proposed in the Secretary General’s (SG) Our Common Agenda Policy Brief 6, which focuses on “Reforms to the International Financial Architecture.”