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🔎 Ahead of this week’s 2026 #FfDForum, our new blog highlights 4 ways to unlock local government finance for #SustainableDevelopment.
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#CRAFdEvent Don’t miss your chance to be part of the #Data4Peace2026 conversation.
⏰ Call for Proposals closes April 13
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❓ How can we catalyze capital flows that strengthen the resilience of communities & markets alike?
🔔 Held on the sidelines of the 2026 #ECOSOC Forum on #F4D, “Peace Finance Forum: Building the Ecosystem for Sustainable Impact” aims to advance this goal.
RSVP by 4/19! 🔽
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💭“Public service, and its ability to connect, adapt, innovate and deliver amid enormous challenges + opportunities is critical to leave no one behind.”—Maggie Williams, Associate Director for SDG16+ with the @sdg16.plus at #NYUCIC, on the importance of the upcoming #UNPSF2026 in Tbilisi, Georgia 🇬🇪.
🚨 Can AI help get the #SDGs back on track?
Join Dr. Arthur Mutambara (Univ. of Johannesburg) for a timely discussion on AI, inequality, and global progress.
📅 Apr 24 | 🕒 2:15–3:45 PM
📍 NYU Pless Hall
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#AIforGood #GlobalGoals
Sevilla Commitment and Subnational Finance: Taking Stock of Progress - Sevilla Commitment and Subnational Finance: Taking Stock of Progress: General Visual
💸 On the sidelines of the 2026 #ECOSOC #Financing4Development Week's #Fin4Dev Dialogues, this event brings leading practitioners to define progress together + identify key challenges to the implementation of the #SevillaCommitment to #SubnationalFinance.
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💭 “Kinshasa's inclusion on the shortlist of the Rubaya mine, which supplies about 15% of global coltan and sits under M23/AFC control, signals Congo wants stronger U.S. action on M23”—Joshua Walker, Director of Programs, @gec-crg.bsky.social.
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New from @nyucic.bsky.social: a policy brief on people-centered justice in AI governance—and how legal systems will be the ones to make it real.
JTA is proud to have helped inform the research. 👉 buff.ly/goph6pC
#JusticeTech #AIGovernance #AccessToJustice
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🤔 How can lawyering and policy advocacy help advance social change and good governance?
🚀 On March 6, Themba Mahleka joined the event, “Africa in Focus: Lawyering for Social Change and Good Governance,” to explore this topic and how we can center Africa as a learning site for legal practice.
For this paper, @thibaultc.bsky.social and I did a deep dive into the history and types of #UN financial crises, the solutions found across time and space, and the trade-offs in choosing certain options (technical fixes) over others (political accommodation).
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How can we build a path forward amid a profound crisis in multilateralism and aid funding?
#NYUCIC’s Senior Fellow Robert Piper’s paper examines the state of the UN development system reforms, focusing on #UN80.
Learn more 📥
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💭 “For now, Kinshasa has succeeded in pulling Washington deeper into its critical-minerals orbit, betting U.S. attention will translate into security and political dividends. What that engagement will ultimately look like, however, remains uncertain.”
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🚀 Happening tmr! Join Paschal Donohoe, Managing Director & Chief Knowledge Officer of the World Bank Group, for a conversation on the global jobs crisis & how knowledge, policy, & innovation must converge to meet this defining development challenge of our generation.
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💭 “As the M23 has taken more and more territory […], we’ve also seen, for instance, a massive increase over the last several years in Rwandan gold exports”—Joshua Walker, Director of Programs, @gec-crg.bsky.social.
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❓ #DYK: Over the next decade, 1.2 billion young people in developing countries will reach working age, yet only around 400 million jobs are expected to be created.
So, how can we address this?
Learn more in an upcoming event with The World Bank Group’s Paschal Donohoe 👇
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📺 Our growing YouTube library features interviews, explainers, and panel discussions on various topics, including #PeopleCenteredJustice, #FiscalJustice, and #Multilateralism.
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❓ How can governments and institutions address the growing job crisis?
💬 Join us for a conversation with Paschal Donohoe, Managing Director & Chief Knowledge Officer of the World Bank Group (WBG), for a keynote presentation and conversation on this challenge.
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Light purple background with clouds. CIC logo on top middle. Text: How to End the United Nations’ Current Financial Crisis… and Prevent Future Ones. Thibault Camelli. Program Officer, Promoting and Defending Multilateralism. Dr. Ronny Patz. Political Scientist and UN Finance researcher. Headshots of authors and UN logo below.
The #UN is not just running out of cash, it is on the verge of bankruptcy.
@thibaultc.bsky.social + @ronpatz.bsky.social’s new paper explains how we got here, why current tools and standard fixes fall short, and what it would take to resolve the crisis and avoid repeating it.
Sa traduction en français a été réalisée grâce au soutien de la Direction générale des relations internationales et de la stratégie (DGRIS) du ministère des Armées français.
Text next to photo of UN, "Octobre 2024; Note d'orientation; Lire Maintenant. Une nouvelle vision pour les opérations de paix (Ou comment j’ai appris à ne plus m’inquiéter et à aimer les mandats en « sapin de Noël »); Eugene Chen." CIC logo on top left.
📅 À l'approche de la conférence ministérielle de Berlin et de la révision de l'architecture de consolidation de la paix en 2025, Eugene Chen (@casquebleu.org) plaide en faveur d'une refonte des opérations de paix de #UN.
📑 Lisez dès maintenant son dernier rapport:
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.@passblue.bsky.social highlights former President of Chile 🇨🇱 Michelle Bachelet's keynote remarks at our event with @clubdemadrid.bsky.sociall + @nyuwagner.bsky.social last week!
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#Multilateralism #UNReform #UNSG
“Renewing multilateralism requires us to look in four directions at once. Backwards: reaffirming the principles of the charter. Inwards: strengthening institutional effectiveness. Outwards: reconnecting with people and societies. Forwards: designing a shared vision towards the United Nations.”
Sa traduction en français a été réalisée grâce au soutien de la Direction générale des relations internationales et de la stratégie (DGRIS) du ministère des Armées français.
Text next to photo of UN, "Octobre 2024; Note d'orientation; Lire Maintenant. Une nouvelle vision pour les opérations de paix (Ou comment j’ai appris à ne plus m’inquiéter et à aimer les mandats en « sapin de Noël »); Eugene Chen." CIC logo on top left.
🕊️ Imposition ou maintien de la paix : quelle voie suivre ?
🤿 Plongez dans l'analyse d'@casquebleu.org sur l'amélioration des missions de paix de l'ONU.
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Their analysis also highlights the growing connections between #GenderEquality, #AccessToJustice, and the broader #SDG16 agenda for peaceful, just, and inclusive societies.
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#Multilateralism #UnitedNations
In a new #NYUCIC Perspectives piece, @leahguyot.bsky.social and @natbriggs.bsky.social, program officers with @sdg16.plus, examine how multilateral negotiations on women’s rights are shifting, from advancing new commitments to defending existing ones.