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Research report

Towards a Just Energy Transition: Implications for communities in lower- and middle-income countries

07/12/2022

4 documents

47 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Overview

More frequent or intense floods, heatwaves, wildfires, droughts and typhoons devastate people’s homes, livelihoods and the natural world. A clean energy transition is urgently needed to reduce carbon emissions and prevent the impacts worsening. Wealthy countries have the prime historic responsibility for the climate crisis and therefore for its mitigation. But as the clean energy […]

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Research report

Inspiring Better Futures: Evidence and hope for radical and transformative impact at scale in a time of crisis

10/12/2020

1 documents

44 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

The world faces converging crises of health, climate, gender and racial injustice and extreme economic inequality. The calls are mounting to ‘build back better’ to create more inclusive, caring and environmentally sustainable futures. But what evidence exists that this is possible? The Inspiring Better Futures case study series investigates whether radical change at scale is […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Planning Research for Influencing Diagram

13/05/2019

4 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

This diagram is designed to help to you plan research for influencing. It will help you to think through what you are trying to influence with evidence, who you are trying to influence and how, how to focus your research, which approaches will be most effective, and how to engage audiences to maximise influence. You […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Fostering Participation in Research

29/03/2019

1 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Research needs to be more inclusive of the voices of people affected by the issues at hand. This guideline has been written for anyone conducting, commissioning or managing research who thinks it would benefit from being more participatory but is unsure how to do this.

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Discussion paper

Influencing to Tackle Poverty and Injustice: Learning from the past, looking to the future

15/01/2019

1 documents

50 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

There have been many development advances in recent decades. But our world is also undergoing major transformations and facing profound development challenges. These include extreme inequality, climate breakdown, gender injustice and the curtailment of civic freedoms. Civil society has an influential role to play, as part of broader alliances, in determining to what extent and […]

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Discussion paper

Influencing Behaviours and Practices to Tackle Poverty and Injustice

17/01/2018

1 documents

60 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Effective behaviour change strategies can play a vital role in combating poverty, injustice and environmental degradation. They can help prevent violence against women and girls; enable better health, hygiene and environmental behaviours; motivate and empower people to participate in campaigns or to become change makers; or influence people to make more equitable, ethical or sustainable […]

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Briefing paper

Food Crises in Africa: An overview

24/07/2006

1 documents

39 pages long

Languages: English

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Food security

Overview

For people to be hungry in Africa in the 21st century is neither inevitable nor morally acceptable. The world’s emergency response requires an overhaul so that it delivers prompt, equitable, and effective assistance to people suffering from lack of food. More fundamentally, governments need to tackle the root causes of hunger, which include poverty, agricultural […]

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Briefing paper

Causing Hunger: An overview of the food crisis in Africa

24/07/2006

3 documents

39 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

For people to be hungry in Africa in the 21st century is neither inevitable nor morally acceptable. The world’s emergency response requires an overhaul so that it delivers prompt, equitable, and effective assistance to people suffering from lack of food. More fundamentally, governments need to tackle the root causes of hunger, which include poverty, agricultural […]

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Briefing note

Free Trade Agreement Between the USA and Thailand Threatens Access to HIV/AIDS Treatment

12/07/2004

1 documents

11 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Access to HIV/AIDS medicines makes a huge difference to the lives of infected people and their families. Not only do these medicines help people live longer, they also greatly improve the quality of their lives, reduce the stigma and discrimination that they might experience, and enable them to contribute to the economic and social welfare […]

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Briefing paper

US Bullying on Drug Patents: One year after Doha

01/11/2002

1 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

One year after WTO trade ministers agreed the Doha Declaration on TRIPS and Public Health, the US government, at the behest of giant pharmaceutical companies, continues to bully developing countries to introduce unnecessarily high standards of patent protection on medicines. This continued bilateral pressure restricts and delays the production of cheaper generic medicines, with potentially […]

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