Beata Cichocka 🇺🇦🌻

Former Beijing儿, now London-based working on development policy @CGDev, views and potential bad puns only my own.

[Beata Cichocka 🇺🇦🌻 @BeaCichocka]

If the SDGs are *what* we want to achieve, the Busan effectiveness principles are the *how* for getting there. But in a rapidly changing #globaldev landscape, are they still useful? Results from new @CGDev survey with @RachaelCalleja 🧵👇
@DevCooperation https://t.co/xgHg3oeiT6

[Helen Dempster @helen_dempster]

Love this new @CGDev blog by @BeaCichocka & @GavasMikaela about how donors need to shift in this new aid landscape. They won't be able to do everything, everywhere, so seems particularly sensible to focus on clarifying and enforcing comparative advantage.

https://t.co/Gst5j3aFnY

[Center for Global Development @CGDev]

🧵China doesn’t track its climate finance, but is it a major player anyway? Its climate contributions total a massive $3 billion a year.

@BeaCichocka and @EconMitch explore how that compares to what the US has done over the years #COP29 ⬇
https://t.co/zfCsNWgYaM

[Kate Logan @Kate_K_Logan]

In his speech today at #COP29 in Baku, #China's Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang stated, "Since 2016, China has provided and mobilized project funds of more than 177bn RMB ($24.5bn), strongly supporting other developing countries in addressing #climatechange." 🧵

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[Ian Mitchell @EconMitch]

New - today we launch the @CGDev Commitment to Development Index 2023 #CDI2023

Looking at how committed 40 countries are to development, based on quantitative measures of their policies.

This is the 20th anniversary of the index.

Five takeaways:

[UNU-WIDER @UNUWIDER]

Is the effectiveness agenda still relevant?
Find out: https://t.co/vGZDLWykd2

This #WIDERWorkingPaper by @RachaelCalleja and @BeaCichocka was presented at the conference on the Effectiveness of Development Cooperation. @DevCooperation @EU_Partnerships

[N. Bourbaki, Professor of Logic at Science U @d08890]

diversity in academia is when you have people of all races and gender expressions who come from an upper-middle-class background with parents having advanced degrees, and the more of those people you have the more diverse academia is

[European DFIs @EDFInetwork]

Join EDFI's #EDD22 lab debate on 22/06 from 11:10-11:55 CET
“Mobilising private capital for a just #transition– Accelerating the #cleanenergy transition by unlocking entrepreneurs’ potential"
📍 Studio 5 @brussels_expo

#EDFInetwork

[Mikaela Gavas @GavasMikaela]

#EDD22 in full swing with lots of promotional rhetoric about the #GlobalGateway but still light on substance!

[Vince Chadwick @vchadw]

Polish Development Bank @BGK_pl says at #EDD22 that they are preparing a request for a budget guarantee from the European Commission for digital investment in sub-Saharan Africa. Expect @EU_Partnerships will be happy to see “Team Europe” get a new player.

[Carl Miller @carljackmiller]

When we say Kyiv is winning the information war, far too often we only mean information spaces we inhabit.

Pulling apart the most obvious RU info op to date (as we did using semantic modelling), very clear it is targeting BRICS, Africa, Asia. Not the West really at all.

[Beata Cichocka 🇺🇦🌻 @BeaCichocka]

Still, how a future effectiveness agenda should address all of the concerns expressed, and how far political will to renew extends remains unclear. In response, we propose 4 scenarios, each involving its own set of trade-offs. Summary in our blog: https://t.co/Csg8DFMMb5

[Beata Cichocka 🇺🇦🌻 @BeaCichocka]

If the SDGs are *what* we want to achieve, the Busan effectiveness principles are the *how* for getting there. But in a rapidly changing #globaldev landscape, are they still useful? Results from new @CGDev survey with @RachaelCalleja 🧵👇
@DevCooperation https://t.co/xgHg3oeiT6

[Beata Cichocka 🇺🇦🌻 @BeaCichocka]

Importantly - only a minority of respondents saw future efforts to reform the effectiveness agenda as politically "doomed". Instead, there seems to be both appetite and willpower to adapt.

[Center for Global Development @CGDev]

In a new @CGDev survey, 75% of development agencies said that in light of current global challenges, aid principles must be reformed.

@RachaelCalleja & @BeaCichocka analyze findings & propose 4 paths for reform ⤵️

@DevCooperation @OECDev #GPEDC #DevCoop
https://t.co/mkbtTDJh2t

[Tony Fratto @TonyFratto]

There’s no difference between a refugee from Syria or Afghanistan or Ukraine or El Salvador. They’re all people literally running for their lives. We have room for all of them.

[Beata Cichocka 🇺🇦🌻 @BeaCichocka]

Papers linked above estimate the economic costs of an embargo on Russian gas for various European countries (spoiler: much lower than COVID) - interested in other views though? https://t.co/HsCkNENTaT

[Beata Cichocka 🇺🇦🌻 @BeaCichocka]

Over €4B transferred via Germany to Russia since the start of the war in fossil fuel imports.

To compare, the US military aid package to Ukraine has been $1B and the EU's €500 million.
https://t.co/xzDxxmtvnO

[Beata Cichocka 🇺🇦🌻 @BeaCichocka]

@KosmaNykiel Co za ironia: https://t.co/jUexvqR8aW

[Annika H Rothstein @truthandfiction]

I can’t get over that Macron clearly did a Zelensky-style war room photo shoot sans war