On 8 June, 2023, SCEEUS, SITE, IVA and the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise will hold a 1-day conference in Stockholm on furthering the private sector engagement in Ukraine’s recovery and reconstruction, hosted by the Swedish Minister for International Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade Johan Forssell. The aim of the conference is to take decisive steps […]
Sustainable development prospects continue to diverge between developed and developing countries. The 2023 Financing for Sustainable Development Report finds that SDG financing needs are growing, but development financing is not keeping pace. The war in Ukraine, sharp increases in food and energy prices, and rapidly tightening financial conditions have increased hunger and poverty and reversed
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UkraineInvest, Ukrainian government’s investment promotion office, is hosting the оnline-event «FIT for Ukraine (Forum on Investments and Transformation): Agri-processing» on May 18, 2023, at 16:00 (EET). Those interested in investing in Ukraine and participating in the reconstruction will receive the latest analytical data and information on available investment incentives, as well as presentations from companies
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for Economic Diplomacy and Openness, Mr. Kostas Fragogiannis, participated in the Foreign Affairs Development Council that took place in Brussels on May 4, 2023. The Council agenda included the following items: a) The global consequences of the Russian aggression against Ukraine on partner countries/ EU’s support to Ukraine and b)
The European Commission announced on 19/04/2023 an emergency funding of €2.5 million in humanitarian aid for Madagascar, Malawi and Mozambique, the 3 countries of the region that suffered the most damage from the 2 passages of tropical storm Freddy in February and March 2023. Of the €2.5 million, €1.3 million are allocated to Mozambique, €700,000
Foreign aid from official donors in 2022 rose to an all-time high of USD 204 billion, up from USD 186 billion in 2021, as developed countries increased their spending on processing and hosting refugees and on aid to Ukraine, according to preliminary data collected by the OECD. The 13.6% increase in real terms is one
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Promoting policy coherence between development co-operation and Responsible Business Conduct (RBC) supports the implementation of the OECD Council Recommendation on Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development (PCSD). The Recommendation on PCSD encourages adherents to take a whole-of-government approach to development policy and finance. In this context, RBC can serve as a tool to support the
On Monday, March 20, 2023, the International Donors’ Conference “Together for the People in Türkiye and Syria” was held in Brussels. The conference was attended by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Nikos Dendias, and the Minister of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection, Mr. Christos Stylianides, representing Greece. During the conference, Greece pledged a total
The 2nd Rebuild Ukraine International Exhibition and Conference is scheduled to take place on November 14-15, 2023 in Warsaw, Poland. The first such event took place in Warsaw at the beginning of the year (February 15-16, 2023) and was highly successful. The event featured participation from 23 Ukrainian municipalities aiming to attract businessmen and donors,
EU supports Ukraine to rebuild its cities in a high-quality, sustainable and inclusive way with the New European Bauhaus (NEB) community through the launch of a capacity-building programme. The New European Bauhaus (NEB) is an environmental, economic, and cultural project launched by President von der Leyen in 2020. The NEB puts the focus on community
