SDGs
Sustainable Development Goals and global challenges
Africa: Sustainable Industrialisation, Regional Integration and Innovation – The AU–EU Convergence Ahead of the Luanda Summit 2025
African Industrialization Day — 20 November 2025 Every 20 November, Africa marks a symbolic day: that of its industrialisation. But this year, the date resonates differently. It comes at a…
30 Years After the Beijing Agreement: Between Legacy, Challenges and New Horizons for Women's Rights
In September 1995, in Beijing, 189 countries signed a founding text that would redefine women's place in the world: the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Thirty years later, as…
Africa Skills Week 2025: Making Skills the Engine of African Industrialisation
From 13 to 17 October 2025, Addis Ababa hosts the second edition of Africa Skills Week, a flagship African Union initiative that places technical and vocational skills at the heart of the…
Every Girl Counts, Every Dream Deserves a Future
The International Day of the Girl Child, celebrated on 11 October 2025, reminds us that every girl has the right to learn, to speak, to choose and to succeed. Investing in girls means…
UNFPA with Diene Keita: A New Momentum for Education, Employment and Equal Opportunities
The recent appointment of Ms Diene Keita as head of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) marks an important milestone for the organisation and for the causes it defends around the…
Official Development Assistance (ODA) at Risk: How to Respond to Falling Funding
According to the OECD, global ODA currently represents about 0.36% of donor countries' Gross National Income (GNI), far from the 0.7% target. In 2023, several European countries reduced…