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Human Development Report 2025: A Matter of Choice. People and Possibilities in the Age of AI
Top Insights
New York: UNDP (2025), xi, 307 pp.
"This year’s Human Development Report examines what distinguishes this new era of AI from previous digital transformations and what those differences could mean for human development (chapter 1), including how AI can enhance or subvert human agency (chapter 2). People are already interacting with
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World Bank Open Data: Data 360
Top Insights
Washington: World Bank (2025)
"Data360 consolidates 300 million data points for more than 200 economies, covering more than 10,000 indicators that are disaggregated by sex, age, employment, location, income, education level, and more. It gives users a 360-degree view of development challenges and progress across five focus are
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Inequalities in Sub-Saharan Africa: Multidimensional Perspectives and Future Challenges
Washington, DC: World Bank;Agence Française de Développement (AFD) (2025), xxxvii, 253 pp.
2025 Democracy Briefer for Funders: What's Happening to European Democracy and What Funders Can Do About It
Brussels: Philanthropy Europe Association (2025), 52 pp.
"Democratic backsliding in recent years has been characterised by gradual, often legalistic shifts, rather than overt actions like coups. Europe is seeing worrying declines in electoral integrity, civil liberties and rule of law. There are several factors driving democratic backsliding in Europe, bu
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As USAID dies, many of Georgia's "vibrant" CSOs face extinction
GEOpolitics, issue 16 (2025), 6 pp.
"For decades, Georgia has been one of the largest per capita recipients of U.S. assistance. In 2012-2023, the years in which the Georgian Dream has been in power, total U.S. overseas development assistance (ODA) stands at USD 1 billion 920 mil lion, according to official data. Of course, the lion’
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Challenging Global Development: Towards Decoloniality and Justice
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xiii, 260 pp.
"This open access book presents contributions to decolonize development studies. It seeks to promote and sustain new forms of solidarity and conviviality that work towards achieving social justice. Recognising global poverty and inequalities as historic injustices, the book addresses how these can b
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42 razones contra la ley antisocial: Argumentario contra la Ley de Fiscalización, Regularización, Actuación y Financiamiento de las Organizaciones no Gubernamentales y Afines
Caracas: Acceso a la Justicia (2024), 2 pp.
"En nuestro argumentario recopilamos 42 razones contra la Ley de Fiscalización, Regularización, Actuación y Financiamiento de las Organizaciones No Gubernamentales y Afine (Ley Antisociedad), cuya aprobación anulará el derecho de asociación en Venezuela y cerrará aún más el espacio cívico.
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Whistleblowing in aid organisations: Successful approaches for reporting and protection
Bergen: U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre;Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) (2024), 31 pp.
"All aid organisations rely on whistleblowing to find out about corruption and other irregularities; however, significant variations exist in their policies and practices. There is a need to tailor whistleblowing channels to specific contexts, operational environments, and target audiences . while e
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Participatory Grantmaking in Practice: The Story of the Building Local Alignment Initiative (so far)
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (2024), 59 pp.
"In 2021, RWJF decided to make participatory grantmaking a hallmark strategy of a multiyear initiative focused on building the power and voice of communities affected by racial injustice in local public health and healthcare systems. The Foundation’s embrace of participatory grantmaking for this p
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Expanding Our Understanding of Evidence for Meaningful Participation
Amsterdam: Porticus;Closer Than You Think Collective (2024), 60 pp.
Reimagining Civil Society Collaborations in Development: Starting from the South
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xv, 348 pp.
"At a time when uneven power dynamics are high on development actors' agenda, this book will be an important contribution to researchers and practitioners working on innovation in development and civil society. While there is much discussion of localization, decolonization and 'shifting power' in ci
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Call for Communication, Collaboration, and Cash: Perceptions of Aid in Ukraine
Ground Truth Solutions (2023), 32 pp.
Preparing International Development Professionals for the Digital Age
Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) (2023), 12 pp.
Social Sustainability in Development: Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century
Washington, DC: World Bank (2023), xxxv, 102 pp.
"Social Sustainability in Development: Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century seeks to advance the concept of social sustainability and sharpen its analytical foundations. The book emphasizes social sustainability’s four key components: social cohesion, inclusion, resilience, and process legit
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Development Practitioners in Action
Rugby: Practical Action Publishing (2023), 160 pp.
"What does a development practitioner look like? Located within deliberative development paradigms, this book addresses this question by examining some of the key attributes, behaviours and character dispositions of development practitioners. Such mentality and behaviours enable development practiti
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2023 Synthesis of UNESCO Evaluations
Paris: UNESCO (2023), 69 pp.
"The 2023 Synthesis of UNESCO evaluations draws on information contained in 36 evaluations – five corporate and 31 decentralized evaluations. The analysis shows that the Organization is making good progress in a range of areas including demonstrating a sharper focus on SDGs, developing fast as an
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The Adoption of Innovation in International Development Organisations: Lessons for Development Co-operation
Paris: OECD (2023), 74 pp.
"This Working Paper addresses this challenge of adopting innovations. How can development organisations institutionalise a new way of working, bringing what was once novel to the core of how business is done? Analysing successful adoption efforts across five DAC agencies, the paper lays out a propos
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Donor Strategies in a time of Paradigm Shift: Mapping of the Donors Active in the Western Balkans
Open Society Foundations, 3rd ed. (2023), 43 pp.
Analisando as perspectivas climáticas decoloniais: O caso da região da Amazônia Legal brasileira
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2023), 79 pp.
"Este estudo é realizado dentro da estrutura do Programa de Pesquisa do ifa „Cultura e Política Externa“, no qual especialistas analisam tópicos atuais das relações culturais internacionais e desenvolvem recomendações para futuras medidas de política cultural externa. Ele discute o poten
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Participatory Grantmaking: Building the Evidence
Centre for Evidence and Implementation;Paul Ramsay Foundation (2023), 47 pp.
"This report explores the state of evidence in participatory grantmaking (PGM). It investigates the benefits and challenges of PGM and provides recommendations for the sector on advancing practice and understanding in this emerging area." (Page 4)
