Vera Mazzara

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Vera Mazzara is the European Think Tanks Group coordinator. In this role, she strategizes how ETTG can put its knowledge and expertise at the service of effective outreach and engagement with policy-makers and policy processes. She organises ETTG presence in Brussels and its network activities, coordinates research and policies on EU international development for the European Commission.Vera comes from the international development and humanitarian sector. She worked for the European Commission in Brussels, United Nations in New York, London School of Economics in London and Italian NGOs in Rome.Her expertise includes advising a range of issues including informing EU external action policies through research with a specific focus on the humanitarian/development nexus and civil military relations.Vera holds a Master’s in Development Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and a BA in Economics from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”.

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Istituto Affari Internazionali

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Università di Bologna

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Università degli Studi di Torino

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Istituto Affari Internazionali

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Advancing the 2030 Agenda Post-Corona: What Role for the G20 Italian Presidency?

by Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) and Vera Mazzara

Rome, IAI, March 2021, 6 p. (IAI Commentaries ; 21|15), 2021

The Italian G20 presidency comes at a crucial moment in time, when the world is still struggling ... more The Italian G20 presidency comes at a crucial moment in time, when the world is still struggling with the COVID-19 health crisis and its socio-economic impacts. It can be expected that this will further delay the implementation of Agenda 2030. Yet, in spite of all the hardship, COVID-19 also provides new opportunities.

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Making policies work EU-UN cooperation: confronting change in the multilateral system

Making policies work EU-UN cooperation: confronting change in the multilateral system, 2019

This paper looks at the role of the European Union (EU) and its member states in the United Natio... more This paper looks at the role of the European Union (EU) and its member states in the United Nations (UN). It examines opportunities for deepening EU-UN cooperation in the years to come, in light of the 2019 reform of the UN development system, and taking into account the EU's evolving role as a global player. The multilateral system, with the UN at its core, is changing. The normative uniformity of the post-Cold War international system is fading as its centre of gravity shifts away from the West. The EU remains a stable presence within the UN, but is faced with its own fragmentation which weakens its ability to defend the EU's agenda for a rules-based multilateral system. Collectively, the EU and its member states are the single largest financial contributor to the UN system. Yet, the EU struggles to coherently leverage its funding relationship with the UN for greater influence and stronger cooperation. The prospect of improvements in the UN's in-country architecture can open doors for more effective collaboration on the ground. However, the UN reforms also reveal how funding patterns, including those of EU institutions and member states, help maintain the fragmentation of the UN system. At the start of a new political cycle, the EU faces critical choices in its external action. The EU's continued commitment to a 'rules-based multilateralism' provides a good basis for its engagement in the UN. It does not, however, alter the EU's power and influence within the UN. The success of this ambitious agenda will depend on the EU's capacity to act jointly, on its strategic autonomy, and on its ability to set the tone in both the United Nations General Assembly (

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Elements of change: Climate and conflict in Africa Climate action as a matter of national security Keep climate change from fuelling conflicts The complex link between climate change and conflict

Elements of change: Climate and conflict in Africa Climate action as a matter of national security Keep climate change from fuelling conflicts The complex link between climate change and conflict, 2019

This issue of Great Insights looks at climate change not as a global phenomenon but rather at how... more This issue of Great Insights looks at climate change not
as a global phenomenon but rather at how it is or it isn’t a
trigger to violent conflicts.
Climate risks are recognised as transboundary and they
need to be tackled through a committed global climate
leadership. The relationship between climate change
and conflicts has been discussed extensively in various
contexts and there are strong indications and a growing
recognition that climate change can accelerate or deepen
conflicts; however, there is still a lack of consensus on
how and under which circumstances climate change
ignites conflicts, because a direct impact is often not
easy to trace: developments that might lead to conflicts
are characterised by a complex constellation of various
factors, therefore, we might not be able to see at first sight
a direct climate cause.
Consequences of and responses to climate change are
issues debated internationally, both at the EU and UN
level. The latest and most notable event was the UN
Climate Summit in September and recently the UN
Security Council has held debates on addressing the impact
of climate related disasters on international peace and
security. The EU had already stated in the Global Strategy
for the European Union’s Foreign And Security Policy that
sustainable peace has always been and will remain at the
centre of the European Union's external action.
All these elements are central to our latest Great Insights.
We asked policy makers and analysts to help us answer
the following question: “When is climate change a risk
factor for violent conflicts and what can be done to address
climate change risk as part of a broader peacebuilding
effort?”.

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ecdpm's Making policies work Summary All together now? eu institutions and member states' cooperation in fragile situations and protracted crises

ECDPM, 2018

Ever since the EU ventured into development cooperation, questions were raised on how its institu... more Ever since the EU ventured into development cooperation, questions were raised on how its institutions and member states could better coordinate their activities. Numerous initiatives were launched to put into practice their repeated commitment to work more closely together, particularly in situations of fragility and protracted crisis. In this paper we analyse three specific policy initiatives where EU institutions, member states and other non-EU players are working together. These are: • the operationalisation of the humanitarian-development nexus in pilot countries, • the Sahel Alliance, and • the EU Trust Funds. The three initiatives have so far managed successfully to bring together all the relevant actors, thus signaling the political commitment to have a joint, quick and effective response to complex challenges in fragile contexts. They have also agree that this response should combine short-term action with more structural engagement, in an integrated manner. Yet, in practice, the implementation faces coordination obstacles, often because of the top-down and headquarters' driven way these initiatives were conceived and led, and of their inability to link up with other ongoing processes on similar themes or regions. This, in turn, affects negatively the buy-in and ownership of actors at field level. Our analysis suggests that incentives and disincentives for the EU institutions and the member states to work more closely together are determined by a particular set of trade-offs: • How to address the practical constraints to coordination while also maintaining a high level of political interest? • How to accelerate procedures to allow faster and more flexible responses while preserving coordination and inclusive processes that are more time-consuming?

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Advancing the 2030 Agenda Post-Corona: What Role for the G20 Italian Presidency?

by Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) and Vera Mazzara

Rome, IAI, March 2021, 6 p. (IAI Commentaries ; 21|15), 2021

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Making policies work EU-UN cooperation: confronting change in the multilateral system

Making policies work EU-UN cooperation: confronting change in the multilateral system, 2019

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Elements of change: Climate and conflict in Africa Climate action as a matter of national security Keep climate change from fuelling conflicts The complex link between climate change and conflict

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ecdpm's Making policies work Summary All together now? eu institutions and member states' cooperation in fragile situations and protracted crises

ECDPM, 2018

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