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Redefining Development in a Disordered World: G78’s 2025 Policy Conference

The Group of 78 is a Canadian non-profit working for peace, climate action and social justice through dialogue and advocacy for progressive Canadian foreign policy and renewed multilateralism. To be held on October 10, 2025 at the University of Ottawa, the theme of G78’s 2025 annual policy conference is Redefining Development in a Disordered World,…(Read more)

Applying a Gender Lens to Infrastructure Projects

On June 15, 2025, PIDG—the Private Infrastructure Development Group owned by Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom—published its new Gender Lens Investing Policy.  Making the business case for investing in women in infrastructure projects, and bolstered by a clear theory of change, the new policy directs PIDG to integrate gender lens analysis into…(Read more)

$3B for Women’s Small Businesses

The Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi), a global campaign with multilateral development banks and bilateral donors to mobilize financing for women’s micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, raised USD 5.3M in 2024, exceeding by a factor of five its goal for the year, and in the process reaching 400,000 women’s MSMEs worldwide. Also in 2024, the…(Read more)