The new loss and damage funding framework under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) emphasises the importance of channelling support through national systems and mechanisms. This approach could prove particularly challenging for African least developed ountries...

The reform of official development assistance (ODA) accounting implemented from 2018, combined with the creation of Total Official Support for Sustainable Development (TOSSD), represents a substantial improvement in the monitoring of development financing. In some respects, however, it remains...

It has been a long road to arrive at the Multidimensional Vulnerability Index, now known as MVI. For more than 30 years, Small Island Developing States (SIDS), at international meetings dedicated to them, notably in Mauritius in 2005 and Samoa in 2014, have been calling for an index that would...