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Increasing funds to tackle climate change miss out world’s most vulnerable, new report finds
The report, which looks at climate finance in the context of building resilience and reducing poverty, finds that while international public resources to tackle climate change are increasing, vulnerability and the links between poverty and climate are not reflected in the allocation of those resources.
From principles to practice: Development Initiatives and Publish What You Fund launch consultation on joining up data standards.
The JUDS project is about unlocking the potential of data to help drive poverty eradication and sustainable development.
DI kicks off project on blended public−private finance for development
Ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been agreed by UN member states, but there is a significant financing gap for developing countries aiming to meet these goals, estimated at trillions of US dollars annually.
Private donors step up to help Syria crisis, with US$398 million given last year, new research finds
Development Initiatives published their Global Humanitarian Assistance report today, which finds that private donors reportedly gave US$398 million to the Syria crisis last year. This is a significant increase from US$114 million given to the same crisis the year before.
Middle East countries push total international humanitarian assistance to a record US$28 billion
Today Development Initiatives published their Global Humanitarian Assistance report, which finds that Gulf donors have significantly increased their contributions of international humanitarian assistance, contributing to a record total of US$28 billion given last year.
New research highlights Africa’s challenge of both protracted and forgotten humanitarian crises
New research by Development Initiatives finds that Ethiopia has been in the largest 10 recipients of humanitarian assistance every year for the last decade, and the Democratic Republic of Congo has featured as a main recipient for nine of the last 10 years – making these recurrent and protracted crises two of the most significant still ongoing today.
Development Initiatives welcomes report of UN Secretary-General on the role of development cooperation in ending extreme poverty by 2030
This week saw the launch of the 2016 report of the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on development cooperation, entitled ‘Trends and progress in international development cooperation’.
International humanitarian assistance in 2015 reached a record total of US$28bn
Development Initiatives has today released figures based on new data that show total international humanitarian assistance given last year reached a record amount of US$28bn.
Development Initiatives welcomes the International Development Committee’s call for increased reporting to the IATI Standard
Development Initiatives (DI) has welcomed the report, particularly its call for DFID to use its leadership role to encourage other humanitarian actors to publish to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) Standard. DI provides the technical support to IATI, which aims to make information about aid spending easier to access, understand and use.