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Serie Global Gateway: transición justa hacia una economía circular

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Voices & Views

La transición a una economía circular es clave para un futuro sostenible. Hablamos con JUST2CE, un proyecto financiado por la UE que se presentó durante las Jornadas Europeas de Desarrollo 2022, para obtener más información sobre...

Africa
Morocco
Ghana
+9
South Africa
Ethiopia
Zimbabwe
Europe
Greece
Italy
Portugal
Spain
United Kingdom
Environment & green economy
Circular economy

Global Gateway Series : La transition juste vers une économie circulaire

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Voices & Views

La transition vers une économie circulaire est essentielle pour un avenir durable. Nous nous sommes entretenus avec JUST2CE, un projet financé par l'UE présenté lors de la Semaine Européenne du Développement Durable de 2022, pour...

Africa
Morocco
Ghana
+9
South Africa
Ethiopia
Zimbabwe
Europe
Greece
Italy
Portugal
Spain
United Kingdom
Environment & green economy
Circular economy

Global Gateway Series: Just transition to a circular economy

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Voices & Views

Transitioning to a circular economy is key for a sustainable future. We talked to JUST2CE – an EU-funded project showcased during the 2022 European Development Days – to learn more about how to avoid the pitfalls of this...

Africa
Morocco
Ghana
+9
South Africa
Ethiopia
Zimbabwe
Europe
Greece
Italy
Portugal
Spain
United Kingdom
Environment & green economy
Circular economy

Views from the Field: Q&A with Thierry Cozier, EU Head of Cooperation in Sierra Leone

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Voices & Views

Over two years since the Ebola crisis, Sierra Leone has seen modest recovery while continuing to struggle with the legacy of its civil war. EU Head of Cooperation, Thierry Cozier, discusses the challenges of addressing food...

Africa
Sierra Leone
Fisheries
Fishing policy
Fragility, Crisis Situations & Resilience
+5
Post conflict
Resilience
Governance & Corruption
Anti-Corruption tools and methods
Transparency

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

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

Open Data in Humanitarian Aid

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Voices & Views

Q&A with Rupert Simons, Chief Executive Officer of Publish What You Fund. Publish What You Fund is a non-profit organisation that campaigns for aid transparency. “We believe that information is power and we campaign to make that...

Africa
Sierra Leone
Asia
+1
Nepal
Digitalisation

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

Ebola, Sierra Leone, and Continuity of Public Services – An Impossible Equation?

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Voices & Views

The Ebola epidemic has taken many lives, breaking up families and leaving numerous children parentless. But it has also left its mark on the economies of affected countries. In Sierra Leone it has more or less ‘destroyed’ the...

Africa
Sierra Leone
Budget support
Economics & Public Finance
Fragility, Crisis Situations & Resilience
+1
Health

How Concern Worldwide is Responding to the Ebola Outbreak in Sierra Leone

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Voices & Views

In May this year the first case of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) was reported in Sierra Leone. Little did we know at that time the major impact this would have on both our programmes and the wider context in which we work. For...

Africa
Sierra Leone
Fragility, Crisis Situations & Resilience
Health