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El laboratorio urbano (LU) es un enfoque de gobernanza experimental para la creación conjunta de soluciones innovadoras a los desafíos urbanos como el cambio climático. Los estudios sobre los laboratorios urbanos han pasado por alto la conformación de laboratorios como un proceso diferenciado y han basado su análisis casi exclusivamente en los casos europeos. Por ello, se sabe poco acerca de la influencia que las condiciones del contexto ejercen en la conformación de los laboratorios en general y fuera de Europa en particular. Para abordar este vacío, el presente estudio analiza en forma inductiva la conformación de LU en cinco ciudades situadas en Argentina, Brasil y México, desarrolla un marco para el análisis comparativo, y plantea la siguiente pregunta: ¿Qué nos dicen los desafíos encontrados y las soluciones desarrolladas durante la conformación de los LU en estas ciudades acerca de la dependencia del contexto; qué consecuencias y limitaciones genera esa dependencia con respecto a su potencial desarrollo fuera de Europa? Comparando las experiencias europeas con las conclusiones alcanzadas respecto de América Latina, el estudio responde a estos interrogantes e identifica preguntas para investigaciones futuras.

El laboratorio urbano (LU) es un enfoque de gobernanza experimental para la creación conjunta de soluciones innovadoras a los desafíos urbanos como el cambio climático. Los estudios sobre los laboratorios urbanos han pasado por alto la conformación de laboratorios como un proceso diferenciado y han basado su análisis casi exclusivamente en los casos europeos. Por ello, se sabe poco acerca de la influencia que las condiciones del contexto ejercen en la conformación de los laboratorios en general y fuera de Europa en particular. Para abordar este vacío, el presente estudio analiza en forma inductiva la conformación de LU en cinco ciudades situadas en Argentina, Brasil y México, desarrolla un marco para el análisis comparativo, y plantea la siguiente pregunta: ¿Qué nos dicen los desafíos encontrados y las soluciones desarrolladas durante la conformación de los LU en estas ciudades acerca de la dependencia del contexto; qué consecuencias y limitaciones genera esa dependencia con respecto a su potencial desarrollo fuera de Europa? Comparando las experiencias europeas con las conclusiones alcanzadas respecto de América Latina, el estudio responde a estos interrogantes e identifica preguntas para investigaciones futuras.

El laboratorio urbano (LU) es un enfoque de gobernanza experimental para la creación conjunta de soluciones innovadoras a los desafíos urbanos como el cambio climático. Los estudios sobre los laboratorios urbanos han pasado por alto la conformación de laboratorios como un proceso diferenciado y han basado su análisis casi exclusivamente en los casos europeos. Por ello, se sabe poco acerca de la influencia que las condiciones del contexto ejercen en la conformación de los laboratorios en general y fuera de Europa en particular. Para abordar este vacío, el presente estudio analiza en forma inductiva la conformación de LU en cinco ciudades situadas en Argentina, Brasil y México, desarrolla un marco para el análisis comparativo, y plantea la siguiente pregunta: ¿Qué nos dicen los desafíos encontrados y las soluciones desarrolladas durante la conformación de los LU en estas ciudades acerca de la dependencia del contexto; qué consecuencias y limitaciones genera esa dependencia con respecto a su potencial desarrollo fuera de Europa? Comparando las experiencias europeas con las conclusiones alcanzadas respecto de América Latina, el estudio responde a estos interrogantes e identifica preguntas para investigaciones futuras.

598114 Munira Shoinbekova, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe

The four-week training, held from 25 August to 19 September 2025 at the Border Troops Detachment in Khorog region, is part of the third phase of the EU-funded project “Stabilization of Tajikistan’s Southern Border Region with Afghanistan.”

Led by experienced national instructors, the course covered a wide range of operational topics, including topography, first aid related to battlefield injuries, tactical patrolling, national border regulations, gender awareness, risk assessment, and patrol report writing.

The curriculum also included specialized modules on international human rights commitments, focusing on the rights and treatment of detainees and refugees. In partnership with UNICEF and UNHCR trainers, participants received practical insights into working with adult and child migrants, as well as exposure to international best practices in border security.

This initiative demonstrates the continued commitment of the European Union and the OSCE to strengthen Tajikistan’s border security and institutional capacity through comprehensive, locally driven training programmes.

Les eurodéputés ont interpellé le commissaire au Budget, Piotr Serafin, sur la réorganisation proposée du budget pluriannuel de l’UE et sur la coordination entre les deux principaux organismes chargés de la lutte anti-fraude et la corruption. Si la Commission affirme vouloir améliorer l’efficacité et la transparence, plusieurs élus pointent des risques d’affaiblissement du contrôle et demandent plus de clarté sur la répartition des responsabilités.

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Plusieurs grands fabricants de médicaments européens ont déjà annoncé leur intention d'investir aux États-Unis et pourront ainsi bénéficier d'exemptions sur les droits de douane.

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598102 Munira Shoinbekova, OSCE Programme Office in Dushanbe

The three-week course took place from 1 to 19 September 2025 in Khorog, Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) under the framework of the EU-funded project “Stabilization of Tajikistan’s Southern Border Region with Afghanistan.”

Facilitated by experienced national instructors, the training enhanced participants’ skills in problem solving, command and control, briefing techniques, information and risk management, gender awareness, mission and exercise planning, as well as the control, execution, and understanding of decision-making processes in border security operations.

In addition, participants took part in interactive sessions delivered by UNHCR and UNICEF experts, focusing on international protection standards, child-sensitive approaches, and best practices in working with migrants and refugees.

This activity reflects the joint commitment of the European Union and the OSCE to strengthening Tajikistan’s border management capacities and supporting sustainable, locally led approaches to security and institutional development.

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IPI in partnership with the Doha Forum, the Stimson Center, and the Global Institute for Strategic Research, cohosted a policy forum on September 26th on Justice in Action: Beyond Promises to Progress.

This UNGA@80 side event featured the launch of the Future of International Cooperation Report 2025 (FIC’25), focusing on advancing justice beyond promises to concrete progress. It explores collective global and regional action to close justice gaps within and between countries and highlights bold policy and institutional reforms aimed at reducing inequality, underdevelopment, and injustice. The dialogue will contribute directly to preparations for the Second World Summit for Social Development (November 4–6, 2025, in Doha) and enrich debates at the Doha Forum 2025 (December 6–7).

Speaking directly to the World Social Summit’s focus on poverty eradication, full and productive employment and decent work for all, and social inclusion—as well as follow-through to the recently convened Summit of the Future and Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development—FIC’25 examines the multiple dimensions of justice across distinct regions worldwide, including its political-judicial, socioeconomic, and environmental characteristics. At the same time, the report gives ample attention to creative and bold policy and institutional reform proposals—particularly at global and regional levels of governance—for reducing high and avoidable levels of injustice (and associated levels of inequality and underdevelopment) within and between countries. A just and sustainable future in line with the outcomes of the World Social Summit requires rethinking governance, fostering inclusive societies, and leveraging innovation to bridge these divides.

Welcoming Remarks:
Zeid Al Hussein, President and CEO, International Peace Institute

Opening Remarks:
Mubarak Al-Kuwari, Executive Director, Doha Forum

Speakers:
H.E. Mohamed Chihi, Executive Director, Global Institute for Strategic Research, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
Amitav Acharya, UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance and Distinguished Professor, School of International Service, American University
Richard Ponzio, Director, Global Governance, Justice & Security Program, Stimson Center, and Co-Director, Global Governance Innovation Network
Brenda Mofya, Director, Oxfam International United Nations Office

Moderator:
Jenna Russo, Director of Research and Head of the Brian Urquhart Center for Peace Operations, International Peace Institute

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Die politische Stabilität von Melonis Regierungskoalition ist in Paris nicht unbemerkt geblieben, wo sie von einem stets gespaltenen französischen Parlament genau beobachtet wird

Mehrere große europäische Arzneimittelhersteller haben bereits Pläne angekündigt, in den USA zu investieren

A view of the podium and the United Nations emblem in the General Assembly Hall. Credit: UN Photo/Loey Felipe

By Andrew Firmin
LONDON, Sep 26 2025 (IPS)

As the high-level opening week of the UN General Assembly unfolds, with heads of states delivering often self-serving speeches from the UN’s podium, the organisation is undergoing one of its worst set of crises since its founding 80 years ago. This year’s General Assembly – ostensibly focused on development, human rights and peace – comes as wars are raging across multiple continents, climate targets are dangerously being missed and the institution designed to address these global challenges is being hollowed out by funding cuts and political withdrawals.

A UN Commission has just determined that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, while the Israeli state recently escalated its campaign of violence by bombing Qatar. Meanwhile, Russia’s war on Ukraine threatens to spill over with its recent launch of drones against Poland and incursion into Estonia’s airspace. Conflicts continue in Myanmar, Sudan and many other countries, despite the UN’s foundational hopes of ensuring peace, security and respect for human rights.

The Trump administration has abandoned multilateralism in favour of transactional bilateral dealmaking while spearheading a donor funding withdrawal that is hitting both the UN and civil society hard. The US government has also repudiated the Sustainable Development Goals, the ambitious and progressive targets all states agreed in 2015, but which are now badly off track.

Today’s multiple and growing crises demand an effective and powerful UN – but at the same time they make this less likely to happen.

Cutbacks loom large

As state leaders meet, one of the items on the agenda is the UN80 initiative. Launched in March, this is presented as a reform process to mark the UN’s 80th anniversary. But reflecting the impacts of the funding crisis, it’s first and foremost a cost-cutting drive. The slashing of donor aid – not only by the USA, but also by other established donor states such as France, Germany and the UK, often in favour of military spending – is having a global impact. The UN is being hit both by states failing to pay their mandatory assessed contributions, or delaying them for long spells, and by underfunding of initiatives that rely on additional voluntary support.

When it comes to mandatory contributions, the most powerful states are those that owe the most, with the USA in the lead with a circa US$1.5 billion debt, followed by China on close to US$600 million. Meanwhile voluntary funding shortfalls are particularly hitting human rights work, always the most underfunded part of the UN’s work. In June, UN human rights chief Volker Türk announced that 18 activities mandated by Human Rights Council resolutions wouldn’t be implemented because of resource constraints. In a world riven by sickening conflicts, human rights investigations on Palestine, Sudan and Ukraine aren’t able to operate at anywhere near full capacity.

Funding shortfalls, intensified by the Trump administration pulling out of key UN bodies and agreements, have forced the UN to plan for a 20 per cent budget cut in 2026. That may involve shedding some 7,000 jobs from its 35,000-person workforce, merging some agencies, shutting offices and relocating functions to cheaper locations.

The UN is undoubtedly an unwieldy and over-bureaucratic set of institutions, and it would be surprising if there weren’t some efficiency savings to be made. If staff are relocated from expensive global north hubs to cheaper global south locations, it could help UN bodies and staff better understand global south realities and improve access for civil society groups that struggle to travel to the key locations of Geneva and New York, particularly given the Trump administration’s new travel restrictions – although that wouldn’t be the rationale behind relocation.

But the proposed cuts mean the UN is effectively planning to do less than it has done before, at a time when the problems are bigger than they’ve been in decades. Given this, decisions about UN priorities mustn’t be left to its officials or states alone. Civil society must be enabled to have a say.

Civil society already has far too little access to UN processes. At the high-level week, even civil society organisations normally accredited for UN access are locked out of events. Reform processes such as last year’s Summit of the Future have also fallen far short of the access needed. Civil society’s proposals to improve the situation – starting with the creation of a civil society envoy, a low-cost innovation to help coordinate civil society participation across the UN – haven’t been taken up.

Now even civil society’s limited access could be further curtailed. Already the Human Rights Council is shortening sessions, reducing the opportunities available for civil society. The proposed cuts would impact disproportionately on the UN’s human rights work. In the name of efficiency, the UN could end up becoming less effective, if it grows even more state-centric and less prepared to uphold international human rights law. States that systematically violate human rights can only benefit from the ensuing lower levels of scrutiny.

Civil society is an essential voice in any conversation about what kind of UN the world needs and how to make it fit for purpose. It urgently must be included if the UN is to have any hope of fulfilling its founding promise to serve ‘we the peoples’.

Andrew Firmin is CIVICUS Editor-in-Chief, co-director and writer for CIVICUS Lens and co-author of the State of Civil Society Report.

For interviews or more information, please contact research@civicus.org

 

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Dans une interview accordée à Euractiv, Luis Planas avertit que la refonte du budget de l’UE proposée par la Commission pourrait donner aux États membres une trop grande marge de manœuvre financière qui risquerait de compromettre l’équité concurrentielle entre les pays du bloc.

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The panelists of the high-level side event, African-led Innovation: Shaping Sustainable Futures With or Without Aid, for the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly. Credit: Oritro Karim.

By Oritro Karim
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 26 2025 (IPS)

On September 24, African-led organizations convened a high-level side event during the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA80) The event – African-led Innovation: Shaping Sustainable Futures With or Without Aid – was organized in partnership with eHealth Africa, Population Services International (PSI), Population Council, and Reach Digital Health. The dialogue amplified voices from African-led organizations and highlighted the importance of homegrown innovations for sustainability—regardless of the availability of foreign aid—amid shrinking donor funding and widening global inequalities.

2025 has been a particularly turbulent year for global development, with cuts to United States foreign aid stifling global development for numerous nations and hindering governments’ abilities to support basic services—such as healthcare, education, protection, and nutritional support. Despite these setbacks, Africa has demonstrated remarkable self-reliance, as governments, stakeholders, and private sectors have come together to drive innovations that prioritize sustainability and inclusion.

“We as Africans have always innovated, as part of who we are and the inequities that we have overcome,” said Chernor A. Bah, Minister of Information and Civic Education for Sierra Leone, a global advocate for youth empowerment and the moderator of the panel, in his opening remarks. “Today, there is a unique opportunity to establish self-reliance. We are the youngest continent on Earth and are full of incredible potential. We can build a society that is economically strong and socially just.”

During the dialogue, the panelists agreed that Africa possesses all the necessary tools to build a sustainable and equitable future, even in the absence of foreign aid. However they emphasized that this vision can only be realized if systems for innovation are designed to be as inclusive as possible, beginning with a community-centered approach.

Debbie Rogers, CEO of Reach Public Health, noted that the primary goal of public health systems should be scalability—designed around the “lowest common denominator” or built to address issues that affect the vast majority of people.

Michael Holscher, President of PSI also emphasized the importance of incorporating the perspectives and insights of those most directly affected by changes in public health systems. “Innovation works best when it’s designed close to the populations, people, and communities it’s meant to serve, co-designed with insights and community engagement in what those solutions are and solutions that will work long term,” said Holscher.

Additionally, the panelists stressed that the voices of marginalized or vulnerable communities must be at the forefront of discussions surrounding sustainable development. Specifically, these approaches must amplify the voices of women and girls, who have historically been overlooked, despite serving as the backbone of African economies. According to the World Economic Forum, women and girls make up roughly 58 percent of the continent’s self-employed population and 13 percent of its gross domestic product. However, they are disproportionately impacted by gender-based violence, with one in four experiencing a violent encounter before the age of 18.

“It’s very important to recognize that we must be mindful not to replicate the same inequities that we are trying to dismantle with this new innovation,” said Dr. Kemi DaSilva-Ibru, the founder of Women at Risk International Foundation (WARIF), a non-profit organization that works to eradicate and advocate against sexual and gender-based violence of women and girls across Africa. “We must look at innovation through the lens of inclusion, it has to be embedded in the design of these innovations. It is also important to recognize accessibility, in terms of tailoring innovation to suit marginalized people. We need to recognize differences, we need to look at innovation through the ecosystem of all different players, he or she is going to determine whether that program is sustainable.”

Additionally, the panelists agreed that directing financial resources to the appropriate stakeholders and maintaining effective, consistent communication between communities, governments, and the private sector are critical steps in fostering sustainable development and driving progress in Africa.

“Breakthroughs happen when there’s good collaboration, across public and private sectors, civil societies, and those who have expertise in technology, delivery, and policy,” said Holscher. “PSI is committed to the idea that African-led innovation will create an unstoppable momentum towards resilient health systems and sovereignties.”

Fara Ndiaye, Deputy Executive Director of Speak Up Africa—a Senegal-based advocacy and communications organization dedicated to empowering African leaders, driving policy change, and promoting sustainable development—stressed that accountability must remain central. She highlighted the importance of financing the right stakeholders, amplifying the right voices, providing scientists with platforms to share their findings, and rallying stakeholders around a shared agenda.

“Accountability in this new era cannot be a one way street where governments report upward and communities audit,” Ndiaye said. “What we are really trying to push for is making sure there is structured engagement between governments and private sector companies…We have the opportunity to redistribute the cards, decide who gets to control the resources and who gets to control what success looks like.”

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CHIŞINĂU, 26 September 2025 – International election observers will hold a press conference to present their findings following the parliamentary elections in Moldova.

What:

• A press conference of the international election observation mission to the parliamentary elections in Moldova
• The press conference can be attended in person or via Zoom (details below)
• You can also follow the livestream here

Who:

• Paula Cardoso, Special Co-ordinator and leader of the OSCE short-term observers
• Chris Said, Head of the PACE delegation
• Linnéa Wickman, Head of the OSCE PA delegation
• Michael Gahler, Head of the EP delegation
• Jillian Stirk, Head of the ODIHR election observation mission

When:

• 15:00 local time (GMT +3) on 29 September 2025

Where:

• Diamond Room, Courtyard by Marriott, 21/A Arborilor Street, Chișinău

Registration:

• To take part via Zoom, please register by 11:00 local time on 29 September using this link

The international election observation is a joint mission of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA), the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), and the European Parliament (EP). The observation mission totals 429 observers, made up of 281 ODIHR-deployed experts, long-term, and short-term observers, 109 parliamentarians and staff from the OSCE PA, 25 from PACE, and 14 from the EP.

For more information, please contact:

Katya Andrusz, ODIHR: katya.andrusz@odihr.pl or +48 609 522 266

Nat Parry, OSCE PA: nat@oscepa.dk or +45 601 08 177

Ivi-Triin Odrats, PACE: ivi-triin.odrats@coe.int or +33 6 07 06 77 73

Raffaele Luise, EP: raffaele.luise@europarl.europa.eu or +32 473 865101

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