Over the last three years, Marcus Cornaro worked as Deputy Director General for International Cooperation and Development (DG DEVCO). Before taking up his new post as Head of the European Union Delegation to South Africa, he spoke...
Last October, Marcus Cornaro left the Directorate General for International Cooperation and Development (DG DEVCO) to take up a new post as Ambassador and Head of the EU Delegation to South Africa. In this interview he shares some...
Never has there been a more pressing time to discuss our relationship with nature, as one million species are faced with extinction, our climate is in a crisis and our battle with COVID-19 is ongoing. Amid the pandemic, EU Green...
Digital education can be a powerful purveyor of equality, personal development and peace, especially in conflict regions. We interviewed the teams behind two international cooperation programmes with impressive achievements in e...
For World Children’s Day, the Capacity4dev team produced an article on the project ‘Supporting the right to quality education for vulnerable Syrian and host community children and youth,’ implemented in Lebanon by a consortium led...
The Chronic Poverty Report 2014-2015 initiates a new approach to tackling extreme poverty in developing countries, “shin[ing] a light on the millions of people worldwide who are thought to be living in chronic poverty”. Andrew...
After natural disasters a lot of funding goes into the humanitarian response – but it’s an inefficient way of funding what is essentially a chronic problem, according to expert Nicholas Freeland. Panelists from the European...
This stocktaking report assesses the scale and type of official development aid (ODA) investments being made by donors (public and private) in food systems, and the pathways through which that investment flows (bilateral...
In this interview, José María Medina Navarro, Head of Cooperation at the Delegation of the European Union to Ecuador, explains how the EU is bringing water and sanitation services to at least half a million Ecuadorians to tackle...