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Energy for Whom? Launch of the new SID report on energy futures in Eastern Africa

According to the International Energy Agency’s Africa Energy Outlook 2014 publication, “More than 200 million people in East Africa are without electricity, around 80% of its population. Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda are among the most populous countries in East Africa and have the largest populations both with and without access to electricity.”

In 2016, SID launched an ‘Energy Futures’ initiative that sought to look at possible future scenarios for energy and how these would affect energy poverty in four selected countries of Eastern Africa.

Globalization at the Crossroads

What is the future of international development in a context where globalization seems irreversible and yet is, at the same time, the target of attacks from emergent political agendas from the Right and the Left? What roles will and should governments play in advancing progress towards the SDGs in an era increasingly defined by nationalist and populist rhetoric? How can development actors reinvent globalization so that it responds more effectively to the needs of those feeling left out or marginalized in the Global North and in the Global South?

Spotlight Report 2018: Exploring new policy pathways

Spotlight on Sustainable Development 2018

Exploring new policy pathways

How to overcome obstacles and contradictions in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda

Report of the Civil Society Reflection Group on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Unlocking the Means of Implementation: Civil Society Perspective on SDG17

HLPF 2018 Side Event – Wednesday, July 11, 2018 H 18:30-20:00 – UNHQ Conference Room 4

Exploring new policy pathways: How to overcome obstacles and contradictions in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda

Conversation with authors of the Civil Society Report: Spotlight on Sustainable Development 2018

12 July 2018, H 6:15 PM, Church Center, 10th Floor, 777 UN Plaza, New York

The world is off-track in terms of achieving sustainable development. Fundamental policy changes are necessary to unleash the transformative potential of the SDGs. In particular, there is a need for more coherent fiscal and regulatory policies and a whole-of-government approach towards sustainability.

Civil Society Financing for Development Group Side Events at FfD Forum 2018

As member and co-faciliatator of the coordination group of the Civil Society Financing for Developemnt Group, SID has contributed to the side events below organized collectively by the Civil Society FfD Group (including the Women’s Working Group on FfD) at the FFD Forum 2018

Monday, April 23, 2018 | 6:30-8:00 PM | Conference Room

Tackling Illicit Financial Flows: Time to Drop False Solutions and Embrace real Change

Business profit or diverse food systems? A new report by the Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition

A new report unveils how corporations and governments are actively pushing for commercial seeds in West Africa having profound implications on people’s diets and rights.

Civil Society Organisations’ open letter to World Bank Executive Directors on the Bank’s approach to Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs)

Last October, more than 150 organisations signed a PPP Global Campaign Manifesto, expressing our alarm at the increasing use of PPPs to deliver infrastructure projects and public services around the world, and in particular the World Bank’s role in promoting these contracts. Our combined evidence shows that the experience of PPPs has been negative, and few PPPs have delivered results in the public interest.

Fianancial crisis 10 yaers on: Has the response to the 2008 crisis laid the foundations for the next?

The 15 September marks the tenth anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers. The implosion of Lehman was the first major milestone of the North Atlantic financial crises, which also spilled over to the global south. Hundreds of millions of citizens were ultimately affected.

The Struggle for Health: an emancipatory approach in the area of neoliberal globalisation (PHM)

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