Welcome to the The GDSI Podcast where we bring you the latest insights from our leading experts. In our episode on Civil Society, Monica Bucurenciu and Tanja Hafner Ademi, team leaders of our EU funded Civil Society projects the ‘Eastern Partnership Civil Society Facility’ and ‘The Tacso Project’ take on the challenge to define civil […]
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The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals describe gender equality as not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous, and sustainable world. Progress has been made over the years to tackle gender inequality – there are more girls than ever before in school and over the past decade 274 legal and
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“Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality” – Bertrand Russell. Russell’s insight into the importance of doubt forms the basis for this webinar on critical thinking by GDSI’s Eastern Partnership Civil Society Facility. If you’ve ever wondered how you can make decisions from a place of objectivity
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As an interim government prepares to take the reigns of a country in crisis there is hope for a democratic and peaceful transition of power in Libya. In the decade following the overthrow of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s government the political situation in Libya went from bad to worse. For years governance of the country has
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Taxation policy and economic growth has a long-standing connection, according to GDSI Managing Director Pauric Brophy. Economic growth is driven by an assortment of economic, institutional, political, and social factors. Taxation is one of the few public policy areas that can produce a direct and immediate effect on the economic, institutional, and political landscape of
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“Nothing about history is pre-ordained or inevitable: historical outcomes depend on unrelated decisions that are taken at various points in time. The job of the historian is to identify the factors that are considered most influential in explaining particular events in history. Different historians will have different perspectives on the things that are most important
The Theory of Change – Structure or Strait Jacket? Read More »
The year is 2020 and Kamala Harris has become the first female Vice-President elect of The United States of America. According to US think-tank the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) only twenty-one women sit as Head of State or Government in 193 countries around the world. This under representation of women in the political landscape
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by Valeria Volkogonova, Local Correspondent from Belarus and Alexandra Savinich (Office for European Expertise and Communications). Non-formal education is something not spoken about at Belarusian schools; however, there are some NGOs, which are busy building young boys and girls’ personal capacities and promoting their participation. The Youth Education Centre Fialta NGO became one of them back in 1995. Quite
Former Minister of European Affairs, Chief Negotiator for EU Accession Talks and National Coordinator for the Instrument for Pre-Accession Funds of Montenegro. I believe the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak and its effects, especially the protracted economic crisis and the EU’s own recovery prospects and modalities (such as through the EU Recovery Fund), will adversely affect the regions’
GDSI in Conversation with Aleksandar Andrija Pejović Read More »
There is an increasing realisation among the international professional, epistemic communities as well as the national governments that existing gaps could be improved. There are a number of methods to achieve this, including, fiscal reporting, the monitoring of state-owned enterprises and public enterprises, the quantification of fiscal risk as well as proactive efforts to address
