10 October | 13:30 – 16:30 CET
Wilhelminenstraße 91/IIf, 1160 Wien (Office of Dreikönigsaktion)

As part of the SDG Dialogue Forum, we have invited Dr. Million Belay, General Coordinator of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) and member of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES Food) to Vienna.

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(13.09.2023)

There is a largely untapped potential of collaborations between social entrepreneurs and big International non-governmental organizations (INGOs) to scale impact and drive systemic change. In Ashoka’s latest report, we argue that social entrepreneurship makes INGOs advance localization and decolonization. And that INGOs will only unleash its promise if they prioritize social innovation and build an organizational culture of innovation.

A comment by Georg Schön

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Ashoka, for the first time together with the Austrian Development Agency (ADA), the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and Global Responsibility, invite leaders from Austrian and Swiss Development NGOs and their partners to apply for the Ashoka Visionary Program with transformative and system-changing project and partnership ideas.

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On 1 June 2023, VIDC in cooperation with Global Responsibility and WIDE, hosted a panel discussion in the Diplomatic Academy Vienna

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19 October | 18:30 – 21:30 CET | PWC,  Donau-City-Straße 7, 41st floor, 1220 Vienna

On 19 October, Ashoka is kicking off a new and special edition of the Visionary Program and is launching its brand-new report New Allies: How INGOs and Social Entrepreneurs Collaborate to Transform Global Development.

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(04.10.2022)

The European Investment Bank has launched EIB Global, a new branch to spearhead development investments in the Global South. Yet the bank has a terrible track record of supporting projects which spark human rights violations while providing only negligible benefits to local communities. EIB Global must eradicate these abuses and put people above investor profits.

A comment by Frank Vanaerschot

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(24.08.2022)

Severe drought in the Horn of Africa; heat waves and drought in Europe; floods in South Korea, India and Australia, flash floods in Colombia and Senegal; record tornadoes/cyclones in the US and Mozambique … and the list goes on. As humanitarians, we see the consequences of the climate crisis in our daily work. The Climate and Environment Charter for Humanitarian Organizations aims to guide and galvanize our collective efforts to address this crisis

A comment by Amir Khouzam & Nishanie Jayamaha

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(20.04.2022)

Recently, the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) published the annual statistics summarizing how much foreign aid its 30 member states, including Austria, provided in 2021, loudly trumpeting the all-time high levels of ODA achieved A comment by Ranil Dissanayake¹

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On 23 March 2022, Global Responsibility hosted an online event on the social and economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on women and girls and possible policy implications for Austrian development cooperation, with cooperation from the Austrian Red Cross, CARE, Light for the World, and WIDE. The Austrian Development Agency co-funded the event

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(23.02.2022)

Changing attitudes towards taxation can only happen if citizens are engaged in shaping tax policy making and if tax systems are seen to be equitable, including appropriate taxation of large corporations as well as linking tax revenues to development outcomes like improved infrastructure, healthcare and education A comment by Luckystar Miyandazi & Orria Goni¹

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