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Airports and aviation emissions
1+ hour, 33+ min ago (148+ words) Written by Shandelle Steadman, Sam Pickard This policy brief accompanies the 2026 Airport Tracker: a global inventory of CO2 and local air pollutants at the airport level aimed at highlighting the climate impact of the world's largest airports. The aviation sector remains…...
Cross-border digital payments and identity in Nigeria under the Af CFTA
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (416+ words) Written by Prachi Agarwal, Maximiliano Mendez-Parra, Sand Mba Kalu, Lola Aworanti- Ekugo, Ayobami Olajide As the African Continental Free Trade Area (Af CFTA) transitions from ambition to implementation, Nigeria stands at the forefront of the continent's digital transformation. Recognised as…...
Dialogue #4: How to be a donor in a post-aid world
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (232+ words) Written by Heba Aly, Nilima Gulrajani, Jessica Pudussery Between October 2024 and June 2026, ODI Global has been convening a series of five dialogues to reimagine and co-create a vision for Northern donorship in the 21st century. The question animating our dialogue thus…...
ODI Global at Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks 2026
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (144+ words) Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks (HNPW) is a major annual humanitarian conference in Geneva, Switzerland that provides a collaborative space for practitioners and experts from a large variety of humanitarian stakeholders including UN agencies, NGOs, the Red Cross and Red…...
Rethinking guarantees in development finance: the role of specialist guarantee companies
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (177+ words) As development finance institutions face mounting pressure to mobilise private capital at scale, guarantees are gaining renewed attention as a tool for risk-sharing and market development. But when do they work and who is best placed to provide them? This…...
MDBs as an asset class
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (181+ words) ODI: Think change Multilateral development banks (MDBs) are under growing pressure to mobilise far greater volumes of private capital for emerging and developing economies. In response, they are experimenting with new instruments, partners and balance sheet techniques - prompting some observers…...
Preferred creditor treatment and multilateral development banks" mobilisation agenda
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (189+ words) ODI: Think change Preferred creditor treatment (PCT) is a cornerstone of the multilateral development bank (MDB) model. It reflects the long-standing expectation that sovereign borrowers prioritise repaying MDB loans - even in times of financial distress - and that other creditors accept…...