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Igniting new ideas to confront global challenges. ODI Global turns bold ideas, evidence, and broad expertise into actionable strategies for a more resilient, just and equitable future.

Website: www.odi.org
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China's investments in Africa's power sector are shifting towards green and renewable technologies. What does this mean for energy transition and security?

Join our upcoming webinar on 18 November: buff.ly/Cbj7PZW 🗓️
November 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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With #COP30 around the corner, we're back with our COP blog series!

We'll be posting daily insights on the negotiations as they unfold in Belém.

First up: Sarah Colenbrander and Shandelle Steadman explore how the world's superpowers are influencing global climate action and implications for COP30.
COP30 in an age of superpowers: How Trump, Xi and Putin are shaping climate action
Russia, the US and China are shaping global climate action. Over the next two weeks in Belém, countries will attempt to advance the international climate agenda despite their profound and outsized inf...
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November 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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What does success at #COP30 look like?

This year's summit is taking place at a difficult political moment, but the stakes couldn't be higher.

As world leaders prepare to head to Belém, a new #ThinkChangePodcast previews what we can expect.

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Think Change episode 84: From Baku to Belém – what does success at COP30 look like?
Guests look ahead to what success would look like at COP30, at a time when climate ambition is being tested by disinformation and geopolitical tensions.
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November 6, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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🎧: In this podcast ep about the future of foreign aid, sponsored by ASI, @ellenhalliday.bsky.social talks to @odi.global’s @aprizzon.bsky.social, ASI’s Daniel Pimlott, and @blavatnikschool.bsky.social’s @gamblingondev.bsky.social.
The future of aid
Daniel Pimlott, Annalisa Prizzon and Stefan Dercon on the changing dynamics of foreign aid
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November 4, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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💡 Is a new paradigm emerging for development cooperation and humanitarian policy?

Top scholars explore this in a joint special issue of @odi.global’s Development Policy Review and Disasters.

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October 27, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Foreign aid is declining as global defence spending soars.

But does ever-growing military expenditure really make us secure?

Join us in London or online on 12 Nov for the launch of a new UN report, "The Security We Need", which analyses these trade-offs. With insights from Izumi Nakamitsu.
The security we need: rebalancing military spending for a sustainable and peaceful future
This launch event brings together policymakers, academics, civil society, and media to discuss the findings and implications of the UN report, and to explore alternative frameworks of security grounde...
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October 27, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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How much do countries invest in justice and does it deliver?

Our new update unpacks global data and benchmarks for smarter public spending.

#JusticeForAll #AccessToJustice #PublicFinance
State of justice financing 2025 annual review: domestic financing and aid
This policy brief presents the latest global data on justice finance, covering the level of finance flowing to the justice sector from domestic resources and also from aid.
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October 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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How do Ministries of Finance organise to use evidence in decision-making?

Our new research maps how evidence is produced and applied in the research and policy units of 4 African finance ministries It provides actionable insights to strengthen how evidence is used in fiscal governance. 📑
Inside research and policy units: how four African Ministries of Finance structure evidence use
This working paper is part of ODI Global’s research on the institutional capabilities of finance ministries, under the Evidence Use in Finance Ministries series.
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October 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Several countries formally recognised Palestinian statehood at #UNGA80 last month.

But what will it take to turn this into real justice, sovereignty & dignity, all of which remain absent for Palestinians?

New #ThinkChangePodcast now out. 🎧

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Think Change episode 83: How do we go from recognition to meaningful statehood and justice for Palestine?
Examines the impact of new international diplomacy and peace initiatives on the future of Palestinian statehood recognition and Gaza governance.
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October 24, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Aid cuts are threatening humanitarian monitoring, but AI-based models should never replace hunger monitoring systems.

Read more in this new article in @the-independent.com, featuring insights from our Senior Research Fellow Simon Levine ⤵️
October 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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🎧 Irene Horejs in conversation with @kathryndahou.bsky.social and @stephanklingebiel.bsky.social: Does the #Zeitenwende mean the end of #InternationalAid?

🔗 www.podcast.de/episode/6950...

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Kathryn Nwajiaku-Dahou & Stephan Klingebiel: DOES THE „ZEITENWENDE“ MEAN THE END OF INTERNATIONAL AID? ~ Kreisky Forum Talks Podcast
In cooperation with the Austrian Research Foundation for International Development (ÖFSE) Irene Horejs in conversation with Kathryn Nwajiaku-Dahou and Stephan Klingebiel DOES THE...
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October 20, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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⚠️ Early-warning and early-response (EWER) systems have become vital tools for preventing violence – but is enough being done to ensure they truly protect civilians? Find out more in this new briefing from HPG's @verobarbelet.bsky.social & @odi.global's Leigh Mayhew: buff.ly/PkXwBqL
Early warning and early response to violence for civilian safety and security
This briefing note explores how early-warning and early-response (EWER) systems have been implemented in response to violence and conflict, and for the purpose of reducing harm and increasing the…
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October 16, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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How will geopolitical fragmentation reshape global finance and impact emerging markets?

Join us at the ODI–CGF–AERC Conference to explore how geopolitical tensions are reshaping capital flows, investment priorities & economic development globally.

🔗Register now @odi.global: odi.org/en/events/gl...
October 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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In a new blog, @martaforesti.bsky.social (Chair, Global Creative Economy Council (GCEC) & Senior Visiting Fellow, ODI Global), makes the case for putting the creative economy at the heart of global economic policy-making.

The GCEC is a partnership of the British Council & @creativepec.bsky.social.
October 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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We're partnering with UNDP to host a conversation on how AI can be shaped to prioritise human agency, sustainability & global cooperation.

Tuesday 4 November, 14:30-16:00 GMT

Register to join us as we explore how #AI can truly serve people & planet: buff.ly/2bs599d
Details of an upcoming ODI Global/UNDP event - Artificial intelligence and planetary futures: agency, equity and co-operation in global AI governance. 4 November, 14:30-16:00 GMT.
October 15, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Last chance!

We only have a few spots remaining for our upcoming panel discussion in partnership with @ibtrust.bsky.social: Media, Trump and the COP30 Challenge

The event is taking place on Thursday at 10am.

Register here ⬇️
Media, Trump and the COP30 challenge
This event will gather journalists, campaigners and civil society to discuss the role of the media in communicating climate change during an unprecedented period of political turmoil and instability.
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October 13, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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With official aid is shrinking, can philanthropy fill the gap? Or is it time to rethink the system entirely?

A new episode of our #ThinkChangePodcast asks how development cooperation must evolve in a changing world. 🎧
Think Change episode 82: From aid to alliances – how should development cooperation evolve?
This episode examines the evolving role of philanthropy in shaping global development cooperation at a time when official aid is under strain.
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October 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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❓ Why are women-led organisations still being routinely overlooked within the humanitarian system? And what can (and should) we do about it? Our latest paper from researchers @megandaigle.bsky.social, @this-is-cate.bsky.social & Manny Maung explores → buff.ly/ILQa6DQ
October 8, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Since 2021, @odi.global and the Alliance have been working together on assessing which countries are paying their 'fair share' of finance.

Join us tomorrow, Thursday 9 October at 15.00 CEST for a preview of the latest report in the series!

Sign up here ➡️ zcralliance.org/events/webin...
A Fair Share of Climate Finance? An assessment of quantity and quality - Zurich Climate Resilience Alliance
This event will convene climate finance experts and practitioners to explore how to make progress on finance in the lead-up to and at COP30.
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October 8, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Photo highlights from day 1 of our public finance conference on building resilient futures! 📸

The 'polycrisis' is the new normal finance ministers must navigate. Thought-provoking sessions explored how finance must work for resilience, not just recovery.

Watch day 2 live: odi.org/en/events/pu...
ODI Global Managing Director Hans Peter Lankes introducing the public finance conference. Audience members at ODI Global's public finance conference. Audience members at ODI Global's public finance conference. Audience members at ODI Global's public finance conference.
October 8, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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What are the implications of Western donors' retreat from official development assistance?

A new joint special issue of our Disasters and Development Policy Review journals is now out – featuring 14 free-to-read articles on the future of aid from a range of leading thinkers: buff.ly/3LAy61x 📚
A description of a new special joint issue of ODI Global's Development Policy Review and Disasters journals on 'Critical perspectives on the future of aid'
October 1, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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The UN is facing a crisis of confidence and funding, which made for a challenging backdrop to #UNGA80.

As the dust settles on discussions in New York, our experts give their take on some of the key talking points – covering humanitarian reform, gender equality and Palestine.
Three key takeaways from UNGA 80
Three ODI Global experts share their thoughts on a week which saw significant upheaval both inside and outside the UN building.
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September 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Sign up to the joint @zcralliance.bsky.social, @granthamlse.bsky.social and @odi.global upcoming webinar on 9th October to hear from climate finance experts about how to make progress on finance in the lead-up to and at COP30.

Sign up: zcralliance.org/events/webin...
September 29, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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It's party conference season in the UK – and immigration will again be one of the big talking points.

In a new blog, @j-hagen-zanker.bsky.social highlights 5 realities about migration repeatedly evidenced by research which we won't be hearing from politicians.
Five things you should be hearing about immigration, but won’t be
Realities about migration and displacement that you won't hear from politicians during party conference season in the UK.
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September 26, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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From suffragettes once branded criminals to today’s movements for climate justice & Palestine – protest has always been contested.

So who gets to define legitimate protest? And how will history judge us?

New #ThinkChangePodcast now out. 🎧

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Think Change episode 81: from Suffragettes to Palestine Action – who defines legitimate protest?
This episode explores the contested politics of protest through history, asking what happens when legal and political channels for change are blocked, and how states respond when protest challenges en...
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September 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM