Briefs

UNFAIR SHARE: Unequal climate finance to East Africa's hunger crisis

The stark reality of climate change has highlighted the financial obligations rich polluting nations, especially in the global North, owe communities and countries most impacted and now unprepared to deal with the unavoidable cost of the climate crisis. East Africa is one of the world’s worst hit regions by climate change and is now experiencing its worst climate-induced extreme weather, fueling an alarming hunger crisis, despite contributing almost nothing to global carbon emissions.

Best States to Work Index 2023: Policy recommendations

The 2023 edition of the BSWI underscores the need for stronger federal policies on wages, worker protections, and rights to organize.

Technology transfer as a U.S. foreign policy priority

Supporting diversified global South local manufacturing is a strategy to improve sustainable, equitable supply of lifesaving medical tools.

U.S. Care Policy Scorecard: Policy Recommendations

The U.S. Care Policy Scorecard exposes the ways federal policies fail to meet the needs of working families, caregivers, and care workers.

Trends in Official Support for Agenda 2030: An Overview of TOSSD Data, 2019 to 2021

In March 2023, the International TOSSD Task Force1 released the 2021 data that had been reported by 105 providers documenting their Total Official Support for Sustainable Development (TOSSD) for that year. TOSSD is a new metric developed by the International Task Force as a comprehensive measure of official resources dedicated to achieving Agenda 2030 and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in developing countries, reflecting the ambitious financing strategy agreed in the Addis Ababa Action Agenda (AAAA) in 2015.

There are now three years of TOSSD data from 2019 to 2021. What do these three years of data reveal about the extent and the quality of financing for Agenda 2030 and the SDGs?

This Briefing Paper, the first in a series of five, provides an overview of trends derived from the 2019 to 2021 data and sets the stage for in-depth analyses in the subsequent paprers. It acknowledges that TOSSD is an evolving metric for providers, with major providers such as the World Bank, Germany and the Netherlands not yet reporting, and with individual providers increasing the coverage of their eligible finance over these years. Comparisons between providers can be problematic. The trends outlined in these papers therefore at this stage can only be interpreted as indicative of directions of finance for Agenda 2030.

Harnessing the Potential of African Women in Agriculture to Meet the Continent's Growing Demand for Food

While there have been some efforts to meet Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 – achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls – these efforts have fallen short of the targets. The Covid-19 pandemic and increased conflict in Africa and Ukraine have further hindered progress, particularly on the African continent. Due to these and other current events, we have observed an upsurge in challenges for women’s equality, namely issues related to job creation, sexual and reproductive health, and the unpaid care workload, as well as an increase in direct violence against women. To achieve SDG 5 and other SDGs, we must start addressing these challenges immediately and effectively.