Opinion: Aid cuts in US, UK, and beyond mean EU institutions must step up As aid cuts from the U.S., U.K., and other European countries bite, European Union institutions must lead reform and fill the funding gap in global development.

🚨 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗽-𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 @devex.com: SNV CEO @sioconnell.bsky.social & EDFI CEO David Kuijper argue that EU institutions must step up to ensure that #DevelopmentFinance is fit for purpose in today’s world. Blended finance can mobilise capital effectively and at scale. Read:

🌍 SNV CEO @sioconnell.bsky.social joins key European development actors at #FiCSSummit2025 on Feb 27 to discuss innovative finance and its role in driving sustainable growth. 🤝 More than ever, public-private partnerships need to bridge the development financing gap. #SNVImpactThatMatters #TeamEurope

Comment: With USAID in crisis, we need carbon markets to help fill the gap in climate finance Development assistance programmes are confronting major setbacks, most recently with the tumultuous situation unfolding at USAID, where we’ve seen unprecedented moves from the new U.S. administration to pause most foreign aid programmes, with devastating consequences.

🚨 New op-ed: Global aid cuts & carbon market delays are stalling much-needed #ClimateFinance.
SNV CEO @sioconnell.bsky.social writes for #Reuters on how setbacks - from #USAID turmoil to faltering #CarbonMarket credibility-are putting climate action at risk.

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Simon O'Connell on LinkedIn: #bhutan #usaid #usaidstopworkorder #foreignaid #internationalcooperation… Having just arrived in #Bhutan I'm sharing some personal, uncropped thoughts on the #USAID turmoil #USAIDstopworkorder, with the hope that those infinitely…

Thoughts from #Bhutan on the #USAID turmoil #USAIDstopworkorder & an opportunity to reshape a narrative on #ForeignAid & #InternationalCooperation which is centred around #TheRightThingToDo & doesn't push towards competition, fragmentation & further polarisation.

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A warning from #Bangalore to all those dads and mums whose kids will soon become #teenagers 😂
#Keepsyougrounded

Innovative finance solutions for resilient frontier markets A coalition of investors, development bodies, donors and foundations can together address systemic barriers to finance that hold back frontier markets.

At #Davos this year the question is not whether radical collaboration is needed, but how bold and innovative we’re willing to be in forging it.
My latest piece on #InnovativeFinance solutions, for this year's World Economic Forum annual meeting

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New frontiers: collaborative finance for climate resilience A coalition of investors, development bodies, donors and foundations can together address systemic barriers to finance that hold back frontier markets.

Ahead of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2025 in #Davos, SNV CEO @sioconnell.bsky.social contributes to the critical conversation on financing climate resilience in his latest article for WEF Agenda.
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Make global co-operation great again Simon O’Connell is chief executive of SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, and Jean Van Wetter is chief executive of the Belgian development agency Enabel Working towards sustainability and shar...

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ODA cuts & waning multilateralism threaten progress in regions already grappling with poverty & fragility. In @financialtimes.com @sustainableviews.bsky.social @jeanvanwetter.bsky.social & I look at the way forward:
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#ClimateAction #GlobalCooperation

TNH Audio Listen here to a collection of occasional podcasts from the The New Humanitarian.

As The New Humanitarian looks to amplify the voices of refugees, asylum seekers, and people affected by conflict and disaster – placing them at the centre of the conversations that shape their lives – we also produce occasional podcasts drawn from such accounts: ⬇️

Will Europe Fragment Under Trump 2.0? Splits are already emerging over tariffs, China, and Russia sanctions.

There is a high risk of EU fragmentation in response to a potential U.S.-EU trade war, especially if Trump picks different tariff rates for each of the bloc’s 27 member states, columnist Agathe Demarais writes.

A breakup in Germany's ruling party coalition has frozen proposed funding cuts to the development budget. But depending on the election result, bigger changes could be on the horizon.

Read the full details ⤵️
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A vast global system exists to prevent famine. It's failing. The IPC is meant to sound alarms that direct food aid to crisis spots. But the watchdog struggles to operate in areas of conflict – the main driver of hunger.

Twenty years ago in Somalia, conflict, drought and government collapse threatened to plunge 200,000 people into famine. Out of it came the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, a linchpin in today’s system for monitoring and alleviating hunger reut.rs/3ODhXTJ

How stakeholder capitalism could aid recovery in the Sahel region of Africa The pastoralist populations of the Sahel are vulnerable to conflict, climate change and migration. Could a stakeholder capitalist approach aid recovery?

How stakeholder capitalism could aid recovery in the Sahel region of Africa
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Neither triumph nor Trumped • Michael Jacobs Another cliffhanger climate conference achieves a kind of progress

Whilst the $300billion pledged at #COP29 is a derisory sum, the inclusion of a 'roadmap to $1.3trillion' provides an opportunity to mobilise climate financing more effectively along an #ImpactCapitalContinuum

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NOUVEAU BRIEFING | Tchad : limiter l’impact de la guerre au Soudan dans le Ouaddaï

Depuis avril 2023, l’est du Tchad a accueilli plus de 930 000 personnes fuyant la guerre au Soudan voisin, engendrant une crise humanitaire sans précédent.
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We don’t need the US to fight climate change Multilateral action has proven resilient before, and it must do so again

Oh yes! “This is not a time for panic, but for resolve. We haven’t been blindsided as in 2016. We are well prepared. We have economic logic, a critical mass of countries, and public support on our side. Let’s stay calm and carry on.” 👌🏽

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COP29: A message from SNV's CEO YouTube video by SNV

Trying @bsky.app with a message from #COP29
where we're calling for greater awareness of the need for an #ImpactCapitalContinuum as key to the #SystemsTransformations that are so desperately needed.

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