Development Policy

At the end of September 2025, Madagascar entered a period of political turmoil that led to a political transition. The events began with the arrest of three city councillors on 19 September 2025, in front of the Senate building in...

Zimbabwe is, in principle, a constitutional democracy grounded in a progressive 2013 Constitution endorsed across the political spectrum. In practice, however, constitutional non‑compliance is widespread, civic space remains...

In 2025, Tanzania’s enabling environment for civil society continued to narrow across multiple dimensions, with fundamental freedoms increasingly constrained by arbitrary arrests, politically motivated prosecutions, and electoral...

Last week, the OECD launched the 2025 Development Assistance Committee (DAC) peer review of the European Union’s development cooperation. The review assesses the impact of “the Union’s evolving development paradigm”, and notably...

As Western aid recedes with the United States winding down USAID and Europe shifting funds from development to defence, China is rapidly filling the donor vacuum with evolving, alternative development models. Moving away from...

Tips from Episode 18 of the Capacity4dev Podcast Series.

Crisis in Journalism: The Impact of the US Government Funding Cuts on Global Media - published in June 2025 and produced by three consortia of top media-development organisations led by Internews Europe, BBC Media Action, and Free...

India’s civil society continues to face a complex operational environment, marked by regulatory hurdles and heightened scrutiny, particularly for rights-based organisations. At the same time, new developments over the past few...

The enabling environment for civil society in Indonesia has experienced a marked deterioration, characterised by intensified restrictions and heightened tensions between state authorities and civic actors. Nationwide protests...

From 2021 onwards El Salvador has experienced a growing concentration of power in the executive, which increasingly controls the judicial and legislative branches, whose own oversight roles have been diminished. Despite the...