Tag: Development Cooperation

Austria is increasing its funding for development cooperation. In addition, a new special representative will be appointed for coordination.

This year's corporAID conference focuses on what global green recovery can look like in emerging and developing countries and what opportunities arise for Austrian companies.

The corporAID web event "Resuming Business in Emerging Markets: India" shed light on companies' mitigation strategies in times of covid-19 in India and the chances this crisis entails for sustainable development and resilience in the business context.

Like almost the whole world, Austria has been under the spell of the novel corona virus for six months. Both here and there, governments set and continue to set restrictive ...

Global health expert Kalipso Chalkidou calls for more transparency and care in the current efforts to get a Covid-19 vaccine.

Poor countries face a variety of challenges in immunizing their populations. So that the price of vaccines does not become a stumbling block, actors like the vaccine alliance Gavi rely on bundling the demand from these countries. And also promote a concerted approach to the global distribution of a Covid-19 vaccine instead of national solo efforts.

The first part of the corporAID webevent-series “Resuming business in emerging markets” offered insights into Latin America and discussed how Austrian companies can take opportunities that not only help them to recover more quickly from the crisis, but at the same time have an impact on issues like climate change and sustainable development.

Martin Ledolter, Managing Director of the Austrian Development Agency ADA, on the current increase in the Austrian budget for development cooperation, how these funds are also used to combat the corona pandemic in partner countries and the further development of ADA from a funding organization to an implementation organization.

The corporAID event series “Resuming business in emerging markets” will offer insights into Latin America, India and South East Asia and discuss how Austrian companies can take opportunities that not only help them to recover more quickly from the crisis, but have at the same time an impact on issues like climate change and sustainable development.

The German government wants to start up its bilateral development cooperation again: A radical reduction of the previous partner countries and many individual projects in favor of selected cooperation partners and larger reform programs is planned.