These are dark days for international development. Aid budgets are in freefall. Multilateralism and international cooperation are under attack. How do we turn the tide, rebuild a sense of shared moral purpose, and restart the stalled shared mission to build a fair, more equitable, and more sustainable pattern of globalisation?
Ahead of the G7 Summit, President Macron has called for a collective effort to end the retreat of global solidarity. ‘Solidarity’ in this context could start with children – and with the G7 providing a new impetus to an old idea.
There is an urgent need for donors to coordinate their shrinking resources behind some well-defined collective goals. That means breaking with old aid models and embracing innovative approaches. The Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty, created under Brazil’s G20 presidency, provides an opportunity. The Alliance offers a financing platform through which donors can pool their aid behind ambitious national plans on hunger and poverty.
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