first night out after this is going to be like fresher's week but instead of asking what a-levels u did the tedious conversation starter will be "so how was isolation" and everyone will answer the same way: it was fine but it was boring

Funds & Facilities: please participate in our survey (linked below) before 8 August. Developing and improving data is critical to expanding the #BlendedFinance market

Coronavirus: BBC poll shows stark divide between rich and poor countries bbc.co.uk/news/world-541…

Some great ideas as to how we can shape the #globalrecovery oecd.org/about/civil-so…. The Minimum Standard Framework for Textile Manufacturing is particularly important as we collectively strive to break up with #fastfashion and #buildbackbetter #COVID19

This is the piece I never wanted to publish. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Register to listen to experts in conversation on #impactinvestment , the next frontier of development and why we need it more than ever as we #buildbackbetter post-Covid-19 👇🏻

and also today

After narrowly losing election for governor in 2018, she led a crusade to register 800k voters in Georgia - 45% of those new voters are under the age of 30 and 49% are people of colour. “I sat shiva for 10 days. Then I started plotting.” Never say die.

Interested in learning more about how we can leverage #blockchain to meet the #SDGs? Register now at lnkd.in/d45WC5R to join us tomorrow at 16.40 CET and hear our experts discuss the opportunities and risks involved in using blockchain for development #oecdblockchain

Check out my article for CFI.co below👇🏻on the OECD’s work on #blendedfinance and #impact. Two critical elements in the drive to ‘build forward greener’ #postcovid

🚨COMING SOON: Blended Finance & Impact Week 🚨 Register using the link below 👇🏻 to join us in discussing the latest developments in #PF4SD

On a day for the history books, Amanda Gorman delivered a poem that more than met the moment. Young people like her are proof that "there is always light, if only we're brave enough to see it; if only we're brave enough to be it."

We'll be taking a deeper look at these issues today in the context of #impact; how more effective harmonisation on #IMM standards and frameworks can help us achieve the #2030Agenda with integrity 🎯 Join us at 13.00 to hear Sir Ronald Cohen’s opening keynote. Link below 👇🏻

✨Just launched ✨ In our new #OECD paper, @PriBoiardi and I explore how donor govts & development partners can leverage #blockchain to help deliver the #SDGs in the countdown to #Agenda2030 Read our analysis in full here 👉🏻 oe.cd/il/3ER

Big thanks to European DFIs for including our essay "DFIs’ role in promoting best practice and harmonisation”. Follow the link below to read @PriBoiardi and I's arguments for underpinning standards of practice to produce #transparent and #comparable data on #impact.

Brilliant words by my brilliant friend @JecenthaS on the disgusting racist abuse directed at England players after last night’s game. These players have proven themselves to be not only amazing athletes, but socially responsible off the pitch and I am so proud of this team ❤️

Everyone should read Sarah Everard's mother's statement - written with heart-breaking fury and grief. (Particularly those people who still believe that it's not dangerous for a woman to walk alone at night in London. Those tweets suck.)

Ever wondered why we need #impactstandards ? Our new #impact Close Up uses the results of a #DFI mapping exercise to make the case for greater #transparency, more alignment of #impactmetrics and common #standards like the OECD-UNDP IS-FSD🎯 👉 Read in full oe.cd/4hc

Today we mark the 75th anniversary of the creation of the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation, predecessor of the OECD. It laid the foundations for lasting co-operation, towards better policies for better lives. ➡️ oe.cd/oeec