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Opportunities and Challenges for Greater IFI-UN Collaboration Across Macroeconomic/FCV linkages

In recent years, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the United Nations have increased their collaboration and strengthened their respective capacities to engage more effectively in fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV) contexts. This briefing makes the case for further collaboration between the UN and the international financial institutions on these issues, details the challenges, both internal and external, that impede collaboration, and provides recommendations for improving cooperation.

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Oct 13, 2020
Marc Jacquand
Crises, Global Governance, United Nations
Multilateral Reform, Prevention and Peacebuilding

Reflecting on the 75th UN General Assembly

Last month’s United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) marked the 75th anniversary of the United Nations—and it could hardly have happened at a more important juncture in world affairs. The main themes and summits were highly relevant to the crises gripping the globe—from the future of multilateralism, to universal health access, to financing for development and economic recovery after COVID-19, to biodiversity and climate. In this post, Sarah Cliffe and Leah Zamore highlight some of the key developments of UNGA 2020.
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Oct 12, 2020
UN Reform

Mission Leadership at the UN: Halting Progress Toward Parity

2020 has been a banner year for the long-overdue push to appoint women to the notoriously male-dominated leadership ranks of UN peacekeeping and political missions—a sign that the UN's gender parity strategy is making progess. This article provides a preview of some of the data from the UN Senior Appointments Dashboard that CIC and the Center for Global Affairs will soon launch, showing both real gains for gender parity, and a more nuanced picture of how well the UN is addressing the complementary priority of regional diversity.

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Sep 30, 2020
Multilateral Reform, Prevention and Peacebuilding

The Challenge of a Lifetime: Ensuring Universal Access to COVID-19 Health Technologies

On September 25th, during the 75th anniversary of the United Nations, leaders from around the world came together to call for a fair and equitable approach to the development, production, and distribution of vaccines for COVID-19. Speakers at this high-level event highlighted the vision and status of the COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP), discussed ongoing research and development, and issued a call to action for member states, intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, and other key stakeholders to support a People's Vaccine. This short video shares highlights from the discussion.

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Sep 29, 2020
2030 Agenda, Global Governance, Humanitarian Crises, United Nations
Humanitarian Crises, Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

Ebola in the DRC: The Perverse Effects of a Parallel Health System

Over the past two years, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has worked to contain its tenth and largest Ebola epidemic. This Congo Research Group group report, the first of three focusing on the epidemic, examines the public health aspects of the response—particularly the creation of a parallel health system funded by international donors. Despite clinical advances, these parallel structures significantly compromised the efficacy of the response, potentially prolonging the epidemic and contributing to violence.

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Sep 17, 2020
Congo Research Group

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