Evaluating UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) with big data techniques

UNESCO has commissioned the evaluation of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) to ECOPER. UCCN is a city network established by UNESCO with the purpose of promoting the use of culture and creativity in member cities as a driver for sustainable urban development. In many areas of international cooperation, networks are considered a powerful engine …

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Presentation of the Decentralised Cooperation Report 2022

The Decentralised Cooperation Report 2022, produced by ECOPER on behalf of the Basque Agency for Development Cooperation (eLankidetza), will be presented to the public on 20 April at 11:00. The aim of this report is to publicise the cooperation carried out by regional and local governments in 11 countries and to facilitate learning and the …

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The 2022 Decentralized Cooperation Report

A quantitative analysis of sub-state government ODA with case studies on city-to-city and region-to-region cooperation. 2022 Decentralized Cooperation Report ECOPER has been commissioned by the Basque Agency for Development Cooperation (eLankidetza) to contribute to the understanding of decentralized cooperation with an annual report on its budgets and programs worldwide. Decentralized cooperation, understood as the participation …

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Advocacy for investment in social protection in Madagascar

As part of a new Madagascar country programme for 2021-2023, UNICEF implemented a multisectoral programme in mica mining villages in the Anosy region of the country, with the aim of reducing child labour and the negative impacts of economic exploitation on children. The programme included a universal child allowance for families, as well as an …

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Bilbao and the SDGs in city networks

The proliferation of city networks is an opportunity to exchange knowledge and experiences on localization of sustainable development goals (SDGs). Through a big data analysis, ECOPER analyzes which SDGs Bilbao is related to in international city networks and to what extent these SDGs are of interest to Bilbao’s citizen entities. This type of analysis allows …

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Research agreement: local culture and global citizenship

ECOPER and Nemesis Association collaborate in the monitoring of local cultural heritage in cosmopolitan or anti-cosmopolitan discourses through big data analysis techniques… Culture is and has always been a meeting place for people and groups of diverse social and geographic origin, so that the promotion of the cultural heritage of a given territory is always …

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Evaluation of UNCTAD’s Subprogramme 1 presented at 84th Working Party Session

This week ECOPER’s Aitor Pérez has visited Geneva to present findings from the external evaluation of UNCTAD’s Subprogramme 1 on Globalization, interdependence and development for the years 2018 to 2021 at 84th Session of the UNCTAD Working Party. The presentation, which was made to UNCTAD Secretary-General, Rebeca Grynspan and Member States’ delegates, was followed by …

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Report on the future of the European Financial Architecture for Development

The European Parliament (EP) has published its report on the proceedings of its workshop on the future of the European Architecture for Development (EFAD). The workshop, held on 7 February and requested by the EP’s Committee on Development (DEVE), was informed by two briefings written by external experts earlier this year, one of whom was …

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Eradicating child Labour in South Asia

Over sixteen million children between ages 5 and 17 are engaged in labour in South Asia, according to estimates from recent years, with the highest levels in absolute terms found in India, followed by Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal. The ILO’s Asia Regional Child Labour Project (ARC) was implemented in 2019 with the aim of reducing …

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Big data analysis of 4,287 cultural policy measures

Big data analysis conducted by ECOPER assesses 4,287 cultural measures and the alignment with the principles of the 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. While alignment increases in all signatory countries, data proves that financial support from Sweden makes a significant difference in developing countries. Occurrences of …

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