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The 2022 Effective Development Co-operation Summit in Geneva wants to transform the way the development community actually works. Two Cordaid delegates will address global decision-makers at the summit. “Due to global crises, we have got used to the firefighting mode. We risk losing track of the long-term”, says Izabella Toth, one of the speakers.
Climate shocks, the COVID pandemic, the energy crisis, war in Ukraine… When, in 2015, the global community agreed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, no one foresaw the headwinds the world is currently facing. Overlapping global crises increasingly undermine progress across all SDGs. In fact, the SDG financing gap is widening fast, especially in countries already furthest behind on the 2030 Agenda.
Meanwhile, as finance providers, implementing entities and partnerships have proliferated in the past decade, global aid architecture has become more and more complex and fragmented. This is becoming more problematic by the day in our partner countries and their societies.
“Trust is not a technical agenda matter. It is a matter of political will and leadership. And trust, in today’s global turmoil, is what is most lacking.”
How to engage more effectively in this fragmented development landscape? How to make the best use of limited resources? These are some of the questions global decision-makers will address during the 12-13 December summit in Geneva.
Effectiveness principles
Izabella Toth, Director of Institutional Funding and Donor Relations at Cordaid, is one of three speakers at the session that puts the spotlight on effective results frameworks. This session is co-organised with the OECD DAC, European Commission and the Governments of Malawi and Sierra Leone.
“The coming week must demonstrate whether the international community still finds the long term important. And whether we will learn from the firefighting of crisis situations to support concerted action for…
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