Kasmira Jefford
Editor-in-Chief at Geneva Solutions
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1 week ago |
genevasolutions.news | Kasmira Jefford
Geopolitics will come and go, but the permanent effects of climate change on the planet mean sustainable finance will remain an urgent priority for world leaders, argues the United Nations’ development agency’s policy boss. With an economy under assault from trade tensions, high debt levels and geopolitical conflicts, scaling up finance to tackle the world’s multiple crises – from climate change to food insecurity – faces seemingly insurmountable challenges.
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2 weeks ago |
genevasolutions.news | Kasmira Jefford
Humanitarian and development actors are still struggling to understand the extent of the cuts by the United States and other international donors, and estimate the number of lives affected. A survey by a Swiss NGO platform sheds some light on these figures. What has been the combined cost of aid cuts by the United States, Switzerland, European nations and other countries on Swiss NGOs?
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2 weeks ago |
genevasolutions.news | Kasmira Jefford
Donald Trump’s foreign aid cuts have decimated the United Nations’ coffers. Voluntary contributions for specific programmes – from the International Organization for Migration, to UNAids, to the World Health Organization – have been drastically scaled back or wiped out altogether.
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3 weeks ago |
genevasolutions.news | Kasmira Jefford
Countries hit by Trump's impending “reciprocal” tariffs face a dilemma – between cutting bilateral deals or standing firm and saving the multilateral trading system. The World Trade Organization (WTO) quietly marked a major anniversary on 10 April. Behind closed doors, trade representatives, business leaders and government officials from its 166 member states gathered to celebrate 30 years since the global trade body came into existence in January 1995.
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1 month ago |
genevasolutions.news | Kasmira Jefford
The gaping budgetary hole left by the United States will be near impossible for other donors to international Geneva to fill, but it will create space for new alliances, says the director of the Fondation pour Genève. Since US president Donald Trump’s decision in January to bring foreign assistance to a screeching halt, international organisations and NGOs in Geneva have been left scrambling to digest the following onslaught of decisions and the trail of devastation left in its wake.
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RT @RichardGowan1: "What has thrown everyone off balance is how cuts have hit not only parts of the UN that the US traditionally dislikes,…
Geneva to provide CHF 10m for NGOs reeling from US funding freeze | via @genevasolutions https://t.co/xZzcuabt5d
“Millions of people have been abandoned from one day to the other,” says Barbara Hintermann, director of the Terre des Hommes Lausanne foundation.
#USAID @tdh_org lays off 440 staff in nine countries after seeing US funding halted. ✍️@kmjefford | via @genevasolutions https://t.co/uaeYr3G86E
