🚨 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

🚨 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. Read 👉 www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

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. www.linkedin.com/posts/simon-...

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

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 👉🏼 www.weforum.org/stories/2025...

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. 🔗 www.weforum.org/stories/2025...

#MakeGlobalCooperationGreatAgain 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: lnkd.in/e4iTCY9v #ClimateAction #GlobalCooperation

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: ⬇️

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 ⤵️ www.devex.com/news/what-do...

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 www.weforum.org/stories/2021...

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 insidestory.org.au/neither-triu...

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. www.crisisgroup.org/fr/africa/ce...

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.” 👌🏽 We don’t need the US to fight climate change on.ft.com/48O8imL

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. youtu.be/8jdxAlOnbkc?...