Africa: Financing for Development – Reforming Global Financial Systems Must Center African Women

Africa: Financing for Development – Reforming Global Financial Systems Must Center African Women

As the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4)  concluded in Seville, Spain in early July 2025, global leaders adopted the “Seville Commitment,” reaffirming the urgent need to reform the international financial architecture, expand fiscal space, and advance gender equality. These commitments are timely and necessary. But without actionable and enforceable reforms, African countries—and African women…

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Africa: Financing for Development – Reforming Global Financial Systems Must Center African Women

Africa: 6th African Philanthropy Conference to Advance Sustainable Financing for the Majority World

The 6th African Philanthropy Conference (6th APC) will take place from Sunday 27 July to Thursday 31 July 2025 at the American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt, under the theme “Sustainable Financing for Development in the Majority World.” This year’s convening hosted by the John D. Gerhart Center for Philanthropy, Civic Engagement, and Responsible Business…

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Africa: Financing for Development – Reforming Global Financial Systems Must Center African Women

Africa: Financing for Whom? Trials & Tribulations From the Fourth Financing for Development in Seville

New York — The Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) took place in Seville, Spain from 30th June to 3rd July amidst intensifying attacks on multilateralism, unprecedented cuts to global aid and development financing, and regression of decades of progress in the fight against poverty. Participants at the once-a-decade United Nations (UN) conference…

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Africa: Financing for Development – Reforming Global Financial Systems Must Center African Women

Africa: Afrishela Fund’s Alternative Credit Assessment – Another Promising Approach to Narrowing the Gender Financing Gap

Insights from the World Bank GROW Expo Despite women contributing nearly 40% of Africa’s GDP, they receive less than 7% of private equity and venture capital funding–and only a fraction of that reaches women-led SMEs. At the recent World Bank’s GROW Expo in Uganda, the Graça Machel Trust’s Afrishela Fund challenged this disparity with a…

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Africa: Financing for Development – Reforming Global Financial Systems Must Center African Women

Africa: Time to Rethink Health Financing – It’s Not Just a Public Sector Concern

By Hatice Beton, Roberto Durán-Fernández, Dennis Ostwald and Rifat Atun As G7 leaders of the world’s wealthiest nations wrapped up their summit in Kananaskis June 16, a critical issue was absent from the agenda: the future of global health financing. Amid escalating geopolitical tensions, trade conflicts and cuts to development aid, health has been sidelined…

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Africa: Financing for Development – Reforming Global Financial Systems Must Center African Women

Africa: Luanda to Host Heads of State-Level Infrastructure Financing Summit Under African Union Chairmanship

The African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) and African Union Commission (AUC) in collaboration with Government of the Republic of Angola will host Africa’s biggest Infrastructure Financing Summit from 23-24 October 2025 in Luanda, Republic of Angola. Following the momentum of previous editions, including the 2023 Dakar Infrastructure Financing Summit, this year’s gathering is part of…

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