This thesis investigates the establishment of the Loss and Damage Fund at COP27 in 2022, a significant achievement considering years of resistance from developed countries like the United States and the European Union. Through a content analysis employing critical discourse analysis on UNFCCC do...

Achieving Sustainable Development Goals and climate targets in the face of rising debt levels requires financial resources which the current Global Financial Architecture (GFA) is failing to meet. In this context, calls for reforming the GFA have taken both front and centre stage. These calls ar...

The Global Health European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership Joint Undertaking (Global Health EDCTP3 JU) aims to accelerate the clinical development of new or improved health technologies for the identification, treatment and prevention of poverty-related and neglected infectiou...

The purpose of this report is to provide the European Commission with the updated second interim evaluation of the second European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership Programme (EDCTP2) with a specific focus on its performance between 2017 and 2022. Its performance is assessed o...

A workshop held on 19 March 2024 addressed issues affecting developing countries’ economic situation, and how it is shaped by policies and global governance. Key subjects include the International Monetary Fund and its policies, taxes and sovereign debt. Several experts addressed different facet...

his evaluation is simultaneously a final and mid-term exercise. It is the final evaluation of the External Financing Instruments (EFIs) forming the basis for the European Union (EU) external cooperation under the Multi-annual Financial Framework (MFF) covering the period 2014-2020 as well as the...

The EU Aid for Trade Progress Report 2023 is the sixth report under the updated EU Aid for Trade strategy and illustrates the EU’s contribution to the global Aid for Trade initiative. After peaking in 2020, when EU collective Aid for Trade reached almost EUR 23 billion, EU collective Aid for Tra...

Progress on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals has been insufficient, not least because of shocks such as the COVID 19 pandemic and recent wars. The cost of this lack of progress is borne by 'least developed countries' – low-income countries with low indicators of socio-economic de...