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We are delighted to announce the City of Monrovia, Liberia, has joined the !

We look forward to working with Mayor Jefferson Koijee to build a new and equal model of cooperation between Africa and Europe to improve the lives of all urban residents.

The Mayors' Dialogue on Growth and Solidarity The Mayors Dialogue on Growth and Solidarity: reimagining human mobility in Africa and Europe’ is an initiative bringing together African and European cities and their mayors.

Today the UK government’s vaccine mandate for care home staff takes effect, meaning up to 12% of residential workers, many of whom are migrants, may leave their jobs.
How worried should we be about staff shortages? Very, write Claire Kumar and Helen Dempster
https://buff.ly/3D06FBA

The UK's focus on 'high skills' while neglecting the aspirations of migrants must end for labour shortages to become a thing of the past, writes Marta Foresti.

On lorry drivers and a warm welcome The UK immigration system must change to address ongoing labour shortages in key sectors of the British economy.

🗨️ We do not need a warm welcome for Afghan refugees or European lorry drivers. We need long term visas, good working conditions, fair pay and good quality basic services.

Read Marta Foresti's latest analysis on UK labour shortages
https://buff.ly/3omwiIu

The chart below shows the share of migrant workers in the essential workforce by country (%).

China has become one of the largest providers of development finance in the world, but less attention has been paid to how it engages with multilateral development banks. Our new report provides the first systematic analysis of how and why it works with them.

China in the multilateral development banks: evolving strategies of a new power In recent years, China has become one of the largest providers of development finance in the world. While much has been written on its bilateral activities via state-directed official lending, less attention has been paid to the multilateral dimension of China’s outward development finance, as the...

How does governance reform happen? Join us to hear about lessons from 20 years of UK governance programmes at state-level in Nigeria.

Sign up to our first webinar in a new series with the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, The Policy Practice and PERL.

How does governance reform happen? Lessons from Nigeria A leading global affairs think tank working to inspire people to act on injustice and inequality.

We are delighted to announce our key workers data visualization has won the Data Design category in Fast Company's 2021 Innovation by Design Awards!

Designed by Federica Fragapane and Alex Piacentini in collaboration with Marta Foresti (Director ODI Europe), the data visualization highlights the huge contribution of migrant workers to the Covid-19 response from the onset of the pandemic to the present day.

So explore hundreds of stories from across the globe on the role of key workers today: https://buff.ly/3zqXVlh

And learn more about the award
https://buff.ly/3kp66dM

How can Africa's green recovery align with climate compatible trade and the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area?

Sign up to the WTO Public Forum and join our upcoming webinar “Towards a green recovery in Africa: implementing the AfCFTA, with the African Centre for Economic Transformation and the African Trade Policy Centre at the UN Economic Commission for Africa.

To join the session, you need to sign up to the WTO Public Forum by 27 September (no late registrations will be accepted).

Towards a green recovery in Africa: implementing the AfCTA During this event, hosted on the WTO Public Forum 2021 platform, we will explore how to align Africa's green recovery through climate compatible trade and the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area.

Based on over 100 interviews with Taliban commanders and others, new research examines the Taliban’s motives for maintaining links to Al-Qaeda.

Taliban narratives on Al Qaeda in Afghanistan Interviews with Taliban fighters and commanders suggest that a mix of interests sustains Taliban–Al Qaeda links, including material reciprocity, camaraderie and legitimacy concerns.Many of these links are individual rather than institutional, and the nature of these relationships varies across the...

The UK must use its leadership at COP26 to bring climate and trade policy agendas closer together.

Four ways the UK can bring climate and trade agendas together at COP26 The UK must use its leadership at COP26 to steer international trade on a climate compatible trajectory through greater coordination with climate negotiations.