1. socialimpactguide.com

    Jan 21, 2024#5. Global hunger. Global food insecurity is a serious problem. According to data, about 735 million people endured chronic hunger in 2022, and with issues like climate change, the lingering effects of the pandemic and conflict, it will be very challenging to end hunger by 2030. Children typically suffer the most.
  2. globalissues.org

    Oct 16, 2024NEW YORK, Oct 16 (IPS) - Sarah Strack is Forus DirectorMultiple conflicts, the climate emergency and other crises are destabilising many parts of the world and intensifying the strain on the resources needed to finance the global sustainable development agenda. Amid these challenges, data from 2023, shows that Official Development Assistance (ODA) reached a record-breaking US$223.7 billion, up ...
  3. With the order to freeze all US foreign aid programmes, except for a few waivers granted in patches for emergency HIV/AIDS programming and similar work, the Trump-Musk alliance then set about dismantling USAID, the jewel in the crown of America's international development cooperation system.Analysts expect less than 5% of USAID's global staff to keep their jobs if ongoing legal ...
  4. globalissues.org

    Oct 19, 2024The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) launched the 2024 edition of the World Social Report on October 17. Titled 'Social Development in Times of Converging Crises: A Call for Global Action', the report discusses the effects of multiple crises and shocks on countries' social development and their capacity to handle those shocks through social protections or ...
  5. theconversation.com

    6 days agoThe Trump administration's decision to suspend USAID workers for 90 days and pause most of its international aid work has rocked the foundations of the global aid system. The move, which has ...
  6. The scale and rapid pace of change necessitates decisive and coherent action by many actors at different levels to advance poverty eradication in all forms and dimensions. UNDP works to ensure responses are multisectoral and coherent from global to local. Outcome 2: Accelerating structural transformations for sustainable development
  7. pewresearch.org

    Feb 6, 2025Foreign aid was a bigger share of federal spending at the height of the Cold War. In fact, the modern aid system was very much a product of the U.S.-Soviet rivalry. In fiscal 1963, international assistance amounted to about 4.7% of total federal outlays, according to archived data from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
  8. Oct 16, 2024In 2023, according to the Global Humanitarian Overview, aid organizations faced a $37 billion funding shortfall to help crisis-affected communities. Yet in that year, the World Bank's International Development Assistance alone had pledged about a third of that amount to governments affected by fragility and conflict.
  9. We are in the toughest period the world economy has faced since the creation of the multilateral system more than three-quarters of a century ago. A quadruple shock of COVID, climate change, conflict and cost-of-living has undone years of hard-fought development gains. As financial conditions tighten, even countries that had seemed on track to prosperity and stability now stare into the abyss ...
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