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I spent this morning with @Dochasnetwork to talk about Irish public support for #globaldev.

Their new representative study (2k sample) lays out the extraordinary levels of support for development.

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@trocaire @Concern @OxfamIreland #Worldview Image
ACTIVE 🏋️‍♀️🚴‍♂️🤸‍♂️

👉🏿31% of those surveyed actively engaged on global development in the last 12 months.

That’s huge.

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CONCERNED 🎗

👉🏿24% are ‘very concerned’ about ‘developing countries’
👉🏿49% are ‘fairly concerned’

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JUSTICE NOT CHARITY ⚖️

The main reasons given for supporting global development are

👉🏿Human rights
👉🏿Shared Humanity
👉🏿Empathy
👉🏿Solidarity
👉🏿Justice

Very few talk of charity

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MORE MONEY 📈

👉🏿32% support increasing the aid budget
👉🏿49% support maintaining it

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TRUST DEFICIT 📉

👉🏿 >60% have low trust in government
👉🏿 >70% have low trust in development orgs

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EMPATHY

👉🏿 1 million people (mostly female, 18-44, outside Dublin) are empathetic to the cause of global development and could be converted.

👉🏿 481k (mostly older males) are disengaged.

👉🏿 1.8m are already supportive.

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HEALTH

👉🏿 The 1m ‘empathisers’ who are convertible to the cause are mostly concerned about health, preventable disease and agriculture.

For more info check out @Dochasnetwork

#Worldview

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More from @David_McNair

Apr 27
I just spoke (and listened) at #DevEngage2023 conference.

A gathering of bright, thoughtful people grappling with the big questions:

#justice

#fairness

And how to build bonds of #trust between the public in rich and poor countries..

Here are five things I learnt.

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1️⃣ THE RIGHT THING ✅

👉🏿Talking to the public about supporting aid and development only really works when they feed it’s the right thing to do.

👉🏿Making a foreign policy or a trade argument doesn’t.

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2️⃣ TRUST ⛓

👉🏿The public don’t often believe that institutions are going to be able to change things.

👉🏿A charity mindset of helping people isn’t empowering. Better to build bonds of solidarity and learning between people.

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Read 6 tweets
Apr 27
Remember the Sustainable Development Goals?

Written in a different era.

One of optimism and ambition.

Half way through they are not in rude health 🏥

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The UN SG's “Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals: released this week makes for grim reading.

On current trends, 575 million people will still be living in extreme poverty in 2030. 📈

Hunger has increased and is back at 2005 levels. 📈 🥗🌯

#DevEngage2023
Only about one third of countries will meet the target to halve national poverty levels. 📉

It will take 286 years to close gender gaps in legal protection and remove discriminatory laws. 👩‍🧑🏿‍⚖️⚖️

#DevEngage2023
Read 7 tweets
Apr 21
Next week I'm on the road: 🧵

Tuesday: I'll be in Dublin speaking with @Dochasnetwork CEOs about development campaigning @JaneAnnMcKenna

Then with @GENE_GlobalEd about shifting trends in geo-politics and their implications for development. @LiamWegimont Image
Wednesday: I'll be in London at the House of Commons for a Roundtable on Multilateralism and #GlobalEconomicGovernance Reform. @liambyrnemp @CAFOD

Thursday: I'll be speaking at the @DevEngageLab conference on building support for #sustainabledevelopment. Image
Friday: I'll be in #Nairobi for the @AfricaEuropeFdn Board meeting: we'll be discussing the #AfricaEurope Partnership and engagement on #GlobalEconomicGovernance Reform.

@AranchaGlezLaya @PascalLAMYPPF @DonaldKaberuka Image
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Apr 21
African Finance Ministers have laid out a five point agenda for Global Financial Architecture Reform.

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1️⃣ Increase the amount of low-interest money available to countries, and make sure it stays available over the long term. Image
2️⃣ Re-channel IMF Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) to the African Development Bank. Image
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Apr 12
The World’s Finance Chiefs are in DC for the #springmeetings2023 of the #IMF and #WorldBank.

So what happened so far? 🧵

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SLOWDOWN:

The IMF’s latest forecasts showed that growth will slightly decline to 2.8% this year (0.1 percentage points below January projections) before rising to 3% in 2024.

Global inflation will fall from 8.7% in 2022 to 7% in 2023 and 4.9% in 2024

imf.org/en/Publication…
PROMISES:

The @G24 which coordinates the position of developing countries called for rich countries to deliver the $100bn in SDRs that they promised in 2021 and channel them through multilateral development banks.
Read 25 tweets
Feb 9
This week the Pope visited Africa.

“Hands off Africa!.. it is not a mine to be stripped or a terrain to be plundered.”

He said to an applauding crowd in Kinshasa.

A 🧵about what the Pope (and Vladamir Putin) understand about Africa that many don’t.
Around 95% of Africans are religious;

Half are Christian, 1 in 3 are Muslim.

In 1910 there were 1 million Catholics in Africa
In 2010 there were 171 million
In 2021 there were 256 million
Support for religion is not just

👉an old person’s thing,

👉a rural thing,

👉or a thing for those without education.
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