Nilima Gulrajani

Jan 23, 2025 | theguardian.com | Nilima Gulrajani

Foreign aid spending reached a record high of $223bn (£180bn) in 2023, new figures released this week from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) confirmed. Yet, in 2024, eight wealthy countries announced $17.2bn in cuts to official development assistance (ODA), and three others hinted at reductions, all to take effect over the next five years.

Sep 11, 2024 | odi.org | Nilima Gulrajani |Heba Aly

A new rationale for Northern development cooperation is desperately needed. Official Development Assistance (ODA) was introduced in the 1960s as a temporary instrument to respond to a particular moment in history, amid decolonisation, the Cold War, industrialisation and poverty reduction efforts in the ‘Global South’.

Jun 27, 2024 | odi.org | Laetitia Pettinotti |Nilima Gulrajani

This blog is the fourth in a new ODI series showcasing ideas for how global financial flows and tax policy can better serve the cause of gender equality. Discussions to agree a new climate finance goal – called the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) – are in full swing at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This goal will set the scale and ambition on climate finance for the next few years.

Jun 13, 2024 | odi.org | Nilima Gulrajani

This blog is the second in a new ODI series showcasing ideas for how global financial flows and tax policy can better serve the cause of gender equality. It is hard to assess the size of the global gender financing gap if we don't know how much is being spent on this goal in the first place. There are at least three important data gaps preventing us from measuring the size of international public spending directed towards gender equality.

Jun 10, 2024 | odi.org | Nilima Gulrajani

This blog is the first in a new ODI series showcasing ideas for how global financial flows and tax policy can better serve the cause of gender equality. When the Sustainable Development Goals were agreed in 2015, governments ambitiously committed to achieving gender equality as both a standalone and crosscutting objective. Almost a decade later, alarming funding trends are surfacing that leave transformative ambitions for gender equality and women’s empowerment at risk.