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            <title>Ending gender-based violence: a foundation for inclusive societies</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This briefing paper is a call to resource gender equality agendas as a crucial component of, and a pathway to creating, inclusive societies. By this we mean societies anchored in human rights, where everyone is recognised and treated as equal and lives with dignity. These are societies where the economy is oriented towards achieving wellbeing, where the system of governance is democratic and accountable, and where the social fabric is strong and resilient. Together, these characteristics contribute the realisation of human rights, as well as individual and collective prosperity.]]></description>
            <author>Creamer Media Reporter  </author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Stretching across Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria, the Lake Chad Basin has experienced more than 15 years of conflict involving Boko Haram and its successor factions. Combined with widespread impoverishment, climate volatility, environmental degradation, limited state presence, weak public services and recurrent mass displacement, these dynamics have produced a protracted humanitarian crisis affecting millions across the region. Over the same period, governments have sought to reassert their authority over crisis response, both through efforts to strengthen national coordination systems and through wider political, security, stabilisation and development agendas that place greater emphasis on national ownership and control. As humanitarian response has increasingly intersected with stabilisation, recovery and state-building agendas, the Basin provides an important opportunity to examine how state leadership is evolving in practice.]]></description>
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            <title>South Africans Deserve Better: The RISE Mzansi Municipal Plan</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[After years of careful mismanagement and methodically executed corruption, most municipalities have fallen into different levels of dysfunction, including metros where tens of millions of South Africans live. Municipalities directly affect the lives of all South Africans and their collective failure to deliver even basic services now amounts to an assault on the dignity of South Africans. This crisis is man made, and this election provides an opportunity to put an end to the growing sense of despair experienced by millions of families unable to cushion themselves from municipal failure and a nationally high cost of living. Change will begin by electing the right people to Council.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The 2026 Local Government Elections give our people an opportunity to restore dignity by restoring our municipalities and rural communities. For too long, municipalities have reproduced the apartheid legacy. Our people remain far from jobs and opportunity. Townships and rural areas remain underserviced and underdeveloped. Informal settlements lack secure housing and reliable services.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Comparison Report is an exercise carried out by the Global Risk and Finance Forum (GRaFF), which brings together Chief Risk Officers (CROs) and Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) from thirteen multilateral development banks (MDBs). The aim of the Comparison Report is to provide shareholders and G20 members with key insights, metrics and data relating to MDBs’ financial positions in a standardized manner. Where possible, the report incorporates harmonized definitions, ensuring consistency and comparability across institutions. The report responds to recommendation 5b from the G20 Independent Review of MDB Capital Adequacy Frameworks (CAF), which called for MDBs to work together on establishing yearly capital benchmarking reports.]]></description>
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            <title>Working Paper 388 - Intra-African immigration and Africa's external performance</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[International migration has been the focus of several studies in international macroeconomics in recent decades. Interest in this issue is linked to the significant increase in global migration, which rose by 83% between 1990 and 2020.1 For Africa, international migration has doubled over the same period, with more than 40 million Africans now living outside their country of origin, of whom 52% reside within Africa. These intra- and extra-continental migrations have been the subject of several ...]]></description>
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            <title>Ten years of the Paris Agreement: a global review of health in nationally determined contributions</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This WHO report reviews the integration of health into the third generation of nationally determined contributions (NDCs 3.0), the national climate plans through which countries implement the Paris Agreement. Against the backdrop of escalating climate-related health risks, it examines 114 NDC documents representing 140 Parties, assessing how health is addressed in climate mitigation, adaptation, loss and damage, governance and financing. The review identifies examples of good practice and ...]]></description>
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            <title>Global Trade Update (October 2026): Can developing countries unlock the potential of biodiversity? </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The report examines how trade can help developing economies capture greater value from biodiversity while supporting sustainable development and safeguarding the biodiversity on which this trade depends.   Biodiversity-based products already account for a significant share of global trade, yet the benefits remain unevenly distributed. And trade doesn’t always contribute to biodiversity conservation and sustainable use. ]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Global trade proved more resilient than expected in the first half of 2026 despite the disruption caused by the Middle East conflict, as supply chains adapted and strong investment in artificial intelligence provided a powerful boost to goods trade. However, the resilience was not uniform, with services trade and some regions more exposed to the effects of the conflict. WTO economists have therefore raised the forecast for merchandise trade growth in 2026 while lowering the outlook for services trade.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Trade-related climate measures (TrCMs) are fundamentally reshaping global soft commodity markets. While the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) pursues the legitimate goal of reducing global forest degradation, its heavy reliance on punitive due diligence – enforced primarily through the loss of market access – poses severe, unintended development risks for smallholder-dominated economies. In Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee, over 90% of production relies on smallholders farming small plots under native forest canopies. While these traditional systems are inherently biodiversity-rich and ecologically sustainable, complying with rigid digital plot geolocation and complex proof-of-legality requirements presents an acute structural challenge.]]></description>
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