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What do public expenditures have to do with gender equality?

Examining how Burkina Faso’s public spending decisions affect women’s access to essential services, amplifying their voices in the fight for gender-responsive budgeting.

How climate change is threatening chocolate

Rising temperatures and extreme weather are threatening farmers' livelihoods and chocolate’s future. Urgent action is needed.

SDR you kidding me?!

What Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) tell us about the deeply unfair global economic system.

What climate disasters cost the most in 2024?

From record-breaking hurricanes to devastating floods, the most expensive climate disasters of 2024 each caused over $4 billion in damages.

The Role of African Development Bank in Delivering Renewable Energy

Delving into the African Development Bank's energy investment. Could they be doing more to uplift Africa's energy-poor communities?

Watch now: Are we really ‘Shifting Power’ in the aid sector?

A conversation on whether progress is being made towards an accountable and locally-led aid system.

The Paris Summit: a missed opportunity for global collaboration

The French Government has described the Summit as a ‘stepping stone’ in tackling the climate crisis and global poverty. But it’s feared summit will be little more than a talking shop.

The erosion of multilateralism and the betrayal by the Global North

This essay discusses how global power imbalances, an elitist disdain for democratic and universal processes and solutions, the rise of fundamentalisms, and overburdening of social movements

A feminist social contract in the globalised world

Focused on Latin America this essay explores the gendered impacts of rising inequalities and how inequalities in the region effectively create a situation of segregation along lines of race or gender.

A feminist social contract, theologically speaking?

This essay discusses relational theological imagery constructed by (eco)feminist theologians, including theological discourses that have constructed imagery of the earth as the interconnected body of God, thereby rendering it sacred.

How can a transformational new social contract be won?

This essay looks at the important role that faith organisations (and people inspired by faith) have historically played - and could play today - in advancing a social contract that helps all people and our planet thrive

Reimagining a feminist social contract in fragile and conflict settings

This essay focuses on social contracts in fragile and conflict settings.

The dream that can still be: The Chilean process to a new social contract

This essay focuses on the Chilean ‘awakening’ which has occurred since longstanding economic policies which have privileged an elite led to social unrest in 2019, the proposed new Constitution that would have responded to the calls of activists.

Ubuntu: a framework for a new feminist contract for people and planet

This essay discusses a new feminist social contract for people and the planet from the perspective of relationships and their value in building resilience, conflict resolution and peacebuilding, and in facilitating consensus and inclusion in decisions

The Rights-Based Economy and the feminist social contract: natural allies?

This essay explores how the Rights-Based Economy has potential to contribute to economic transformation, and to help identify and facilitate points of alignment.

The world is waking up!

This essay mourns our planet’s economic collapse amidst rising inequality and a backlash against women’s rights.

The invisible Black women

Robert’s essay discusses how social contracts discussion in the West has a poor record on ‘race’ and gender, marginalising Black women’s demands for justice.

How Covid-19 has shrunk civic space

The global Covid-19 pandemic brought unprecedented restrictions to civic space throughout 2020-21.