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De jeunes innovateurs construisent un avenir durable en Méditerranée

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Voices & Views

Autour de la Méditerranée, une jeune génération développe des moyens durables pour aborder les défis économiques, en consolidant les coopérations. Le programme Dialogue Méditerranéen pour les Droits et l’Égalité a lancé l...

Africa
Morocco
Asia
+2
Jordan
Syria
Children and Youth
Economics & Public Finance
Economic growth

Young innovators building a sustainable future in the Mediterranean

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Voices & Views

A young generation in the Mediterranean is finding sustainable ways to mitigate economic challenges by consolidating cooperation. The EU-Programme Med Dialogue for Rights and Equality launched the "Mediterranean Innovators for...

Africa
Morocco
Asia
+2
Jordan
Syria
Children and Youth
Economics & Public Finance
Economic growth

Expanding Turkey’s social protection systems to refugees

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Voices & Views

In November 2016, the EU initiated its largest ever humanitarian scheme, the €348 million Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) in Turkey. ESSN is based on the idea that giving families cash rather than in-kind aid (such as food or...

Asia
Syria
Europe
+1
Turkey
Migration & Forced Displacement
Refugees
Social Protection and Inclusion

Decentralised Cooperation: The human face of international development

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Voices & Views

What would happen if everyone gave €1 a year for development cooperation? Citizens from Coulaines, a commune in France, are showing what’s possible: they have helped bring water to 15,000 people in their twin-town Kouré, some 5...

Africa
Morocco
Europe
+1
France
Public Sector Reform & Decentralisation

A Delegation Perspective on Implementing the GAP

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Voices & Views

One year into the EU’s second Gender Action Plan (GAP), which stepped up ambitions to make all the EU’s external action gender-sensitive, what is happening on the ground?

Africa
Cabo Verde
Democratic Republic of the Congo
+3
Lesotho
Asia
Afghanistan
Gender

Supporting Young Peacebuilders to Counter Extremism

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Voices & Views

Development gains are easily undermined by rising extremism in fragile contexts. In response, donors are keen to embed elements of CVE, or ‘combatting violent extremism’, in their cooperation programmes. Engaging young people in...

Africa
Morocco
Tunisia
+4
Asia
Lebanon
Syria
Europe
Fragility, Crisis Situations & Resilience

Eliminating Corruption to Enable Development

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Voices & Views

Corruption ranges from bribery to collusion to straightforward theft, but as envelopes of cash evolve into more sophisticated mechanisms, efforts to prevent corruption and build transparency must keep up. “We see new forms of...

Asia
Afghanistan
Maldives
+1
Europe
Governance & Corruption

The Land-Drugs Nexus

Article
Voices & Views

"For many communities in Myanmar who grow opium, for them opium is not the problem, it is the solution to their problems," said local project consultant, Tom Kramer, from the Transnational Institute. And therein lies one of the...

Asia
Afghanistan
Myanmar
Agriculture & Rural Development
Fisheries

No Peace without Development: EU-UN Cooperation in Fragile Countries

Article
Voices & Views

“One of the most important messages that I have today is that we need to understand that the life of a conflict is much longer than it seems on the surface. That’s why we have to listen to the first signs. Whether it is a conflict...

Asia
Palestine
Syria
+1
Europe
Development Policy
Fragility, Crisis Situations & Resilience

Humanitarian and Development Actors Unite to Build Resilience in Lebanon

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Voices & Views

“We are now in the fourth year of the Syria crisis and we can see that there is not only a host community fatigue [in Lebanon], but also a donor’s fatigue,” said Emily Jacquard, Director of Search for Common Ground’s Lebanon...

Asia
Lebanon
Syria
+1
Europe
Fragility, Crisis Situations & Resilience
Humanitarian Aid