The steel sector alone accounts for roughly 7% of global carbon dioxide emissions. If the world is serious about hitting climate targets, emissions from this heavy industry must fall by at least 50...
ECDPM hosted a high-level conference in Brussels on 11 June 2026, where we reflected on a radically transformed global landscape - focusing on the connection between Europe’s new internal prioritie...
The global landscape has changed fundamentally. We are witnessing a multiplex global ‘un-order’ where the rules-based system is faltering, replaced by power relations and transactional diplomacy. I...
The new US tariff policy is another reminder that trade shocks rarely stay “over there”. For countries that depend on exports, they quickly become questions about jobs, industrial strategy and soci...
Allen describes how debates around green corridors, logistics and trade are often framed as something being pushed onto Africa from outside. Yet when her organisation worked with us on green freigh...
Europeans and other stakeholders are not aware of the development successes in Africa and the innovation occurring on the continent.
https://ecdpm.org/work/40-years-making-international-partnershi...
Ex-Nigerian Ambassador John Kayode Shinkaiye spoke to us about ECDPM, our brokering role and what is needed in a fracturing world.
With the collapse of USAID and greater hostility to foreign aid in Europe, is it a matter of swapping out the name 'development' for something else that better makes the case for cooperation with d...
With ODA declining, the relationship between what were once donors and recipients is changing. The new relationship has to be decided together.
https://ecdpm.org/work/40-years-making-international...
While international cooperation breaks down, collective challenges are not going away. We will have to find new ways to work together, for everyone's sake.
ECDPM at 40: https://ecdpm.org/work/40-y...
As relations with the United States become more unpredictable, the need to build stronger ties with Africa and the wider Global South is becoming urgent.
Europe cannot afford to rely on old assump...
Melody Musoni outlines how digital technologies are reshaping all areas of development cooperation, from trade to migration and governance.
https://ecdpm.org/work/40-years-making-international-par...
Forums like the WTO and COP are failing to deliver, just as rising crises like climate change become impossible to ignore. We still have to work together – which means finding new, more effective w...
Geopolitical competition means increased pressure to align with a specific power, particularly when funding is at stake. But credibility rests on safeguarding independence.
In our 40th anniversary...
We spoke to Ibrahim Mayaki, former Prime Minister of Niger and former CEO of African Union Development Agency-NEPAD, on the end of Official Development Assistance (ODA).
With public opinion in bot...
International cooperation is not dead – but it has to change. If traditional development cooperation fell short because it was not honest about competing interests, better partnerships will start b...
As the old global order fractures, it is harder – and more important – to get very different actors around the same table.
Jean Bossuyt reflects on ECDPM’s role over the years as a bridge‑builder:...
Europe is still a heavyweight in digital connectivity, but without a coherent offer to partner countries, it will continue to be passed over for China, the US and others.
Our new paper takes a cri...
Europe is still a heavyweight in digital connectivity, but without a coherent offer to partner countries, it will continue to be passed over for China, the US and others.
Our new paper takes a cri...
🔵 This is not the first 'crisis' of development aid or Africa–Europe cooperation.
As ODA collapses, we can’t just defend an old model that often stood in the way of development. We should use this..