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February 27, 2024 | France, Agriculture, Education, Gender Equality, Climate, Global Health | Share this update
On February 27, 2024, 102 French NGOs signed an op-ed published in Le Monde.
The article called out France’s February 2024 budget cut of EUR742 million (US$804 million). CSOs argued the cut goes against Macron's 2021 Development Law, which set France on the path to acheiving a 0.7% ODA/GNI ratio. The article stated that by reducing its financial commitments, France had reduced its influence on the international stage at a time when it should be reaffirming its support to multilateralism and CSOs.
The article also underscored the impact that the cut would have on the poorest countries, highlighting projects across sectors that would be reduced or cut due to diminished funding.
Led by Coordination Sud President Olivier Bruyeron, signatures included:
January 19, 2024 | France, Nutrition, Education, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, Global Health | Share this update
On January 19, 2024, the French Presidency announced that France will launch, around the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games next July, a major initiative for the children of the planet focusing on health, nutrition, and education issues.
Political advisors to French President Emmanuel Macron have shared that France will use the Olympic Games as well as the presence of numerous heads of states in Paris for the opening ceremony to ask for commitments to global nutrition, health, and education.
The initiative follows the Global Coalition for School Meals, which held its first meeting in France in October 2023. The coalition supports the objective that all schoolchildren worldwide have access to meals necessary for good learning and growth by 2030.
October 27, 2023 | EUI, France, Education, Global Health, Climate | Share this update
On October 25-26, 2023, the EU hosted the Global Gateway Forum, which invited stakeholders from international businesses, partner countries, and CSOs.
The two-day conference aimed to increase visibility of the Global Gateway program, the EU's investment and ODA platform, which aims to strengthen Europe's ties with partner countries while addressing contemporary challenges like climate change or energy transition.
Over the course of the conference, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Commissioner for International Partnerships Jutta Uprilainen announced a variety of partnerships and funding, including:
While the event resulted in a variety of high-level commitments, observers expressed concern at the mismatch between representation from partner countries, many of whom sent heads of government or state, and EU Member States, some of which either did not attend or were represented by lower-level officials.
October 19, 2023 | France, EUI, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, Agriculture, Education, Climate, Global Health | Share this update
On October 19, 2023, Commissioner for International Partnerships Jutta Urpilainen pledged EUR780 million (US$827 million) in ODA loans and grants for Nigeria through the global Gateway program.
The funding was announced ahead of the 8th Nigeria - EU strategic dialogue, which convened EU representatives and members of the new Nigerian government to discuss existing partnerships and new opportunities for cooperation. Key components of the support included:
July 3, 2023 | France, Gender Equality, Global Health, Education | Share this update
On July 3, 2023, ahead of the forthcoming CICID, Coordination SUD, the French national umbrella organization of NGOs, published its recommendations for an ambitious development policy.
Coordination SUD formulated six guiding recommendations for France's new strategy:
June 23, 2023 | EUI, Germany, US, France, UK, Global Health, Climate, Education | Share this update
At the Paris Summit for a New Global Financing Pact, the EU announced several pledges and partnerships to support partner countries in adapting to climate change.
In partnership with France, Germany, the UK, and Canada, the EU launched a new Just Energy Transition Partnership with Senegal. With the help of international development banks and other partners, the group aimed to mobilize EUR2.5 billion (US$2.7 billion) to diversify Senegal's power supply and increase domestic access to renewable energy.
The EU, via the Team Europe initative also provided an additional EUR300 million (US$328 million) to Rwanda's Resilience and Sustainability Facility. Building on existing commitments of US$319 million made through the IMF, the funding included commitments from the EIB, AFD, IDC, and other partners. The funding was allocated to projects to bolster the capacity to author and enact policy changes to respond to climate change.
Additionally, the EIB announced an EUR10 million (US$11 million) loan to Barbados for healthcare resilience. The pledge also included a commitment to improve partnership on WASH, renewable energy, and climate change.
May 24, 2023 | Japan, Canada, France, UK, US, Germany, Italy, EUI, Education, Agriculture, Gender Equality, Climate, Global Health | Share this update
On May 24, 2023, Civil Society 7 released its review of the May 2023 G7 Hiroshima Summit.
The report looked at six topics, including the nuclear disarmament, climate and environmental justice, the transition to a fair economy, global health, humanitarian aid and conflict, and a resilient and open society, and presented the following findings:
C7 aims to achieve a society envisioned by the SDGs that leaves no one behind, and its criticism of the G7 Hiroshima Summit was presented as a means of holding leaders to account for their role in building a better world.
February 27, 2023 | France, Global Health, Gender Equality, Education | Share this update
On February 27, 2023, French President Emmanuel Macron, introduced, in Paris, his new vision of the partnership between France and the African continent.
Macron's statement came ahead of a visit to Gabon, Angola, Congo, and DRC. In particular, he highlighted that renewed partnerships with African countries would center:
Macron marked the announcement of this new direction for France's partnership with African countries with a second announcement of a new development cooperation instrument. As a start, Macron stated that EUR40 million (US$42 million) will be allocated to French embassies based in francophone countries.
February 7, 2023 | EUI, France, Germany, Education, Agriculture, Climate, Gender Equality | Share this update
On February 7, 2023, European Commissioner for International Partnerships Jutta Urpilainen launched a €200 million (US$217 million) Team Europe Initiative on Green Recovery in Nepal.
The initiative is supported in partnership with Germany, Finland, and France under the EU’s Global Gateway strategy. Specifically, the partnership will receive €142 million (US$154 million) from the EU budget and more than €60 million (US$65 million) from Finland, France, and Germany.
The initiative will fund green growth in Nepal by supporting small shareholder farmers and the agro-forestry sector. It will also support increasing access to energy, water, sanitation, nutrition services, and education. Additionally, the program aims to increase women’s participation in leadership and the economy.
August 31, 2021 | Canada, EUI, France, Germany, Global donor profile, Japan, UK, US, Education, Global Health, Nutrition | Share this update
The UK, as President of the G7 in 2021, hosted a virtual leaders’ meeting of the G7 on August 24 to discuss the current situation in Afghanistan.
The leaders, delivering a statement from the meeting, called for a cessation of all violence, and agreed to support an UN-led international humanitarian response. The G7 leaders also called upon the new Taliban-led government to uphold international human rights particularly for women and girls and uphold international humanitarian law.
The UN has estimated that 18 million people are now in need of humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan following the collapse of the government and the Taliban takeover, as US and UK troops withdrew from the country. The UN has also warned that the violence in Afghanistan must stop, noting that if current trends continue, Afghanistan could record the highest-ever number of documented civilian casualties, since the UN’s began collecting annual data on these figures.
The UK has agreed to increase its official development assistance (ODA) to Afghanistan to £286 million (US$384 million) and has committed to receiving 20,000 Afghan refugees over the next five years. It also has an Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) which was launched on April 1, 2021 and will remain in place until November 2022, that offers any current or former locally employed staff working for the UK government in Afghanistan (that is assessed to be under serious threat to life) to be offered relocation to the UK.
US$ amounts are cited directly from sources; in the absence of an official conversion, they are calculated using the previous week's average of the US Federal Reserve's daily exchange rates.
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