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Business integrity goes well beyond anti-corruption compliance, and touches upon diversity, inclusion and gender equality. Phenomena like discrimination, gender pay gap, exclusion from business opportunities, bullying, and sexual and other types of harassment are all examples of integrity flaws that not only hamper the internal environment of a company, but also impact the lives of [...]

Southern-Led Development Finance examines some of the innovative new south-south financial arrangements and institutions that have emerged in recent years, as countries from the Global South seek to transform their economies and to shield themselves from global economic turbulence. Even before the Covid-19 crisis, it was clear to many that the global economy needed a reset [...]

Global policy frameworks such as the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) require collective action across national, regional, and global levels and different policy areas. At a time when multilateralism is increasingly being contested, it is crucial to develop constructive ways for intensifying cooperation across these levels to achieve [...]

The second volume of South-South Network for Public Service Innovation (SSN4PSI) Matchmaker report presents 24 cases that have been made available and adapted by the various members of the organization between 2019 and 2020. In addition to the case studies of the development solutions from Governments and non-state actors, the Matchmaker shows a summary of [...]

The Virtual Counter-Terrorism Week organized by UNOCT, brought together the Member States, United Nations entities, civil society representatives, international and regional organizations, thought leaders, the private sector and other key stakeholders to improve our collective understanding of the impact and potential consequences of the COVID-19 crisis on terrorism landscape, as well as Member States’ counter-terrorism [...]

Countries of the Global South have contributed to more than half of the world’s growth in recent years and trade among these countries has reached an all-time high, accounting for more than a quarter of all world trade, while the outflows of foreign direct investment from the South represent a third of global investment flows. [...]

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has a deep institutional commitment to South-South cooperation (SSC), as reflected in the UNFPA strategic plan 2018-2021 that frames SSC as a crosscutting mode of engagement to deliver on the ICPD and the 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development. SSC interventions underpin all UNFPA thematic areas.  UNFPA commissioned its first [...]

Saudi Arabia’s 2020 Presidency of the G20 has given the Islamic Development Bank Group (IsDBG) the opportunity to support, participate and contribute to critical world- shaping discussions, while presenting the value that Islamic Finance can add to global finance. This report aims to showcase the IsDB Group’s Global Advocacy efforts and its contributions to the [...]

IsDB is transforming and repositioning itself to meet the needs of its stakeholders by becoming a Bank of Developers – a development institution that not only provides financing but also plays a key role in connecting and engaging key stakeholders and partners to transform the development journey of member countries. The Bank will encourage innovation [...]

The concept of making markets work through global value chains requires fresh thinking about globalization and industrialization in a world that is changing rapidly, given what we witness today in terms of shifts in the global economy as well as the pace and breadth of technological advancements. Taking all these challenges into consideration, the Islamic [...]