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Global Cooperation Update

Reasons to be cheerful in 2024

Season 1, Ep. 1

Amidst gloomy predictions for the world in 2024, Jonathan Glennie shares his secret for how he remains hopeful for the future of global cooperation.

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  • 8. Making Transparency Work for People & Planet

    07:49||Season 1, Ep. 8
    Last month Jonathan spoke to the IATI Annual Meeting. These are some of the reflections he shared on the importance of transparency for development, and what needs to be done to move from data sharing to data use, shifting power to communities that need it.
  • 7. No LAC of leadership: How Latin American and Caribbean countries could shape the multilateral system in the next two years?

    07:55||Season 1, Ep. 7
    In this Global Cooperation Update, Jonathan Glennie highlights the pivotal role Latin America and the Caribbean will play in renewing multilateralism in 2024 and 2025. With upcoming events like the G20, COPs on climate and biodiversity, and the Financing for Development Process, the region's progressive leadership is crucial for global development decision-making.
  • 6. Back by populist demand: what a second Trump term would mean for internationalists.

    11:05||Season 1, Ep. 6
    In this week's Global Cooperation Update, Hassan Damluji, co-founder of Global Nation and author of 'The Responsible Globalist', takes over to argue that America's trajectory on the global stage is unlikely to be radically altered by Trump, and that while fraught with risk, the reduced hegemonic power of the US might just hold promise from strengthened multilateralism in the future.
  • 5.  Civil society under attack? Alarm bells from the Julian Assange case

    08:04||Season 1, Ep. 5
    In this Global Cooperation Update, Jonathan Glennie explains why the trial of Julian Assange matters for global cooperation and development.
  • 4. Don’t stop talking about Gaza

    07:23||Season 1, Ep. 4
    In this Global Cooperation Update, Jonathan Glennie answers two questions. Why is the Gaza conflict special when there are so many other important things happening in the world? And when it all seems so hopeless, can raising our voices really make a difference? 
  • 3. Aidwashing in Palestine. How major international agencies cooperate with injustice.

    07:56||Season 1, Ep. 3
    Jonathan Glennie looks at how aid washing is taking on a whole new level in Palestine and questions the integrity and coherence of governments that are complicit in the destruction of Gaza and its people while providing aid to the victims. 
  • 2. "Nothing about us without us": A slogan that could supercharge the UN's Summit of the Future

    07:15||Season 1, Ep. 2
    Jonathan Glennie sets out why the once-in-a-generation opportunity to shape global cooperation at the UN’s Summit of the Future is struggling to galvanise the support it needs, and how a powerful slogan could transform its success.