ONE is participating in the World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings 2026 in Washington, DC, joining global leaders, policymakers, and economists to shape discussions on African debt, global health financing, and sustainable economic growth.
At the 2026 World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings, ONE is engaging across key issues that will define development priorities for Africa and the global economy.
Why this matters
The World Bank Spring Meetings 2026 and IMF Spring Meetings come at a critical moment:
Global health programs require urgent and sustained financing.
Many African countries face rising borrowing costs...
Aid and Development
2025 was a milestone year: the African Union–European Union partnership turned 25 at the same time as a generation of young people who have grown up alongside it. In November, leaders from both continents gathered in Luanda, Angola for the sixth AU–EU Summit.
They marked a quarter century of cooperation that began on April 3, 2000, when the first summit met in Cairo, Egypt. In 25 years, there have been real wins: Child mortality has dropped. Access to electricity and the internet has...
You’ve likely heard the phrase “foreign aid” a lot in the past few days, and for good reason. Several countries have announced cuts in their aid budgets this year.
To understand the implications of these cuts, which are part of a broader trend in cuts to development spending, it’s important to understand what foreign aid really is.
Keep reading to find out more.
What is foreign aid?
Foreign aid, international aid, ODA, or “global aid," refers to the transfer of resources and money...
As the Managing Director begins a new term, the global economy and our societies face increasing headwinds.
The aftershocks of COVID-19 and conflict are impacting us all, and those in vulnerable countries face particular challenges because they bear the burden of unsustainable debt. They lack the resources to prepare for and respond to economic, environmental and health shocks. Women often of these crises.
As a result, extreme poverty and hunger are increasing for the first time in a generation. In 63...
It may feel like the world is crumbling under the weight of the climate crisis, soaring cost of living, and inequality. But it's not time to give up. It's time to take bold action.
Al Pacino is here to give us all a halftime pep talk to keep fighting.
https://youtu.be/s9wyryL6hCE
Join the ONE Campaign and find out how you can fight for progress, one inch at a time.
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Things… aren’t great in the world right now. If it feels like the world isn’t making the progress we need on climate change, equality, and poverty, that’s because, well, we’re not.
It can be hard to conceptualize what this long-term progress should look like. To break it down, we created five stats that help put things in perspective. We also have some ways you can take action. We’re not powerless to these challenges, no matter how big and gloomy they...
It’s time to make the World Bank the “World’s Bank.”
Extreme poverty is on the increase for the first time in a generation. Countries affected by fragility and conflict are at the front line. We have 75 months to go before we use what is left of our carbon budget. After that we lose the battle to stay within 1.5°C.
The choices and actions implemented in this decade will have impacts now and for thousands of years to come. Business as...
More than a hundred Presidents, celebrities and economists have come together to propose a ten-point-plan to reform the World Bank and make it fit for the 21st Century.
Dear Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner,
CC G7 Finance Ministers
Your urgent leadership towards a data-driven modern-day Marshall Plan for People and Planet
In these historically tough times, when all tools of global policy must be maximised, we are writing to remind you and the other G7 Finance Ministers of your responsibility as the biggest group of shareholders of the IMF and World Bank. So we ask you please to honestly ask yourselves this question: are you doing everything possible, in close...
Dear Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner,
CC G7 Finance Ministers
Your urgent leadership towards a data-driven modern-day Marshall Plan for People and Planet
In these historically tough times, when all tools of global policy must be maximised, we are writing to remind you and the other G7 Finance Ministers of your responsibility as the biggest group of shareholders of the IMF and World Bank. So we ask you please to honestly ask yourselves this question: are you doing everything possible, in close...