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Youth-Led Participatory Action Research Guides

22 Jun 2022

4 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Participatory research challenges the academic tradition in which the scientist is at the center of decisions in the research process. Inspired by popular education, this approach allows members of the community to question their living conditions and develop solutions to improve them from a social justice perspective. These guides were developed and tested as part […]

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Co-Creation Toolkit: From design to implementation

22 Jun 2022

16 documents

2 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Co-creation is a collaborative practice for developing an initiative. It is a way to strengthen the individual and collective power of stakeholders to create innovative solutions to targeted issues, while creating opportunities for synergy between different groups or teams that sometimes work in silos. This toolbox is made up of eight summary sheets explaining the principles of […]

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Briefing paper

Footing the Bill: Fair finance for loss and damage in an era of escalating climate impacts

07 Jun 2022

7 documents

36 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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The world has entered a new and dangerous era of climate change impacts, causing huge loss and damage and driving up inequality in the world’s poorest countries and communities that have contributed least to the climate crisis. New research by Oxfam estimates that funding requirements for UN humanitarian appeals linked to extreme weather are eight […]

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Briefing paper

Access to Housing: A Right Not an Investment

01 Jun 2022

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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Over the past two years, the housing situation in Lebanon has deteriorated so drastically that it has been nearly impossible for many population groups to secure adequate and sustainable housing options, given the sharp increase in rental prices, weak tenure rights, and rising socio-economic inequalities. This policy brief looks into the housing situation in Lebanon and […]

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Research report

Sanitation Marketing in Tajikistan: Business model for sustainable WASH market development

30 May 2022

1 documents

25 pages long

Languages: English

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Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) remains a critical problem in Tajikistan, particularly for its rural areas. In terms of sanitation and the market within which it operates locally, there have been no sectoral tools on market-based WASH programming in Tajikistan, and therefore little available guidance around the facilitation of better interactions between the demand and […]

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Research report

Designing Sustainable Water Supply Systems in Tajikistan: A step-by-step guide to design, construction and ownership

30 May 2022

1 documents

21 pages long

Languages: English

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Tajikistan is often described as the poorest country in Central Asia, with GDP per capita consistently lower than any of its regional neighbours. Its water and sanitation infrastructure is severely dilapidated, suffering from decades of underinvestment and the failure to address widespread damage suffered during the country’s civil war (1992–1997). Efforts to ensure everyone has […]

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Research report

The Value-Added Tax (VAT) Improvement Program: Raising the operational efficacy of the VAT administration in Bangladesh

24 May 2022

3 documents

37 pages long

Languages: English

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Bangladesh has a weak and inequitable tax system. Over the past 15 years, the government of Bangladesh (GoB) has relied on the regressive value-added tax (VAT) for more than a third of all revenues, with little progress towards strengthening direct taxation of high net-worth individuals and large corporations. From 2015–2021, the World Bank’s VAT Improvement […]

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Youth-Led Participatory Action Research Guides

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Overview

Co-Creation Toolkit: From design to implementation

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Overview

Footing the Bill: Fair finance for loss and damage in an era of escalating climate impacts

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Overview

Access to Housing: A Right Not an Investment

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Overview

Sanitation Marketing in Tajikistan: Business model for sustainable WASH market development

Keywords

Overview

Designing Sustainable Water Supply Systems in Tajikistan: A step-by-step guide to design, construction and ownership

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Overview

The Value-Added Tax (VAT) Improvement Program: Raising the operational efficacy of the VAT administration in Bangladesh

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