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Land, Peace and Security: Secure access to land as a vital guarantee for the protection of communities in the Sahel

26/05/2025

2 documents

26 pages long

Languages: English, French

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The lack of secure access to land is a major driver of physical and food insecurity, violence, and violations of the fundamental rights of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and their host communities. This briefing paper outlines the causes and consequences of restricted land access and explores its links with protection risks in the context of […]

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Water-Driven Hunger: How the Climate Crisis Fuels Africa’s Food Emergency

30/04/2025

1 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English

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This paper calls for an integrated water and food security management in eight Eastern and Southern African countries—Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia, South Sudan, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. These countries, identified as Hunger Hotspots for 2025 and among the 30 most water insecure globally, are also experiencing the severe impacts of climate variability. The paper strongly […]

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The Roadmap Towards Gender Transformation in the Kampala Declaration and the CAADP Ten-Year Implementation Plan and Strategy (2026-2035): Defining Africa’s response metrics in the third iteration of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme

14/04/2025

1 documents

38 pages long

Languages: English

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The newly launched 10-year Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Strategy and Action Plan (2026–2035) represents a crucial initiative for enhancing productivity and fostering cohesive agricultural development throughout the continent. The forthcoming results framework for this strategy will lay out the objectives to be pursued in the transformation of the agriculture sector and will serve […]

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Raising the Bar: Supermarkets must urgently address structural exploitation of cocoa farmers

10/04/2025

1 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English

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Most cocoa farmers in main cocoa producing countries Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana are poor, even though they are at the heart of the supply chain for a luxury good: chocolate. For decades they have been receiving low farm gate prices, which don’t allow them to earn a living income for their families. At the same […]

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Discussion paper

A (More) Feminist Approach to Principled Humanitarian Aid

31/03/2025

1 documents

33 pages long

Languages: English

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Historically there has been very little discussion of feminism within the international humanitarian system. In recent years, some donor governments – including Canada, Mexico, and Germany – have adopted overtly feminist foreign policies and applied these to their strategies and guidance for humanitarian assistance. At the same time, aid actors have started to reconfigure their […]

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Beyond the Targets: An ambitious agenda to put aid back on track

12/03/2025

5 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Aid can make a huge contribution to significantly reducing inequality. Given the widespread agreement that bringing down inequality is necessary to underpin efforts to end poverty, achieve gender justice and successfully fight climate change, there is an urgent need for donors to make this a priority in their aid policies. For this virtuous cycle to […]

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Personal to Powerful: Holding the line for gender justice in the face of growing anti-rights movements

06/03/2025

7 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Thirty years on from the commitments enshrined in the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA) this briefing reveals a picture of broken promises and unfulfilled ambition by States. This failure is not just due to a lack of political will, but also an economic system that is unequal by design. As world leaders prepare […]

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Takers Not Makers: The unjust poverty and unearned wealth of colonialism

20/01/2025

9 documents

96 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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Billionaire wealth has risen three times faster in 2024 than in 2023. Five trillionaires are now expected within a decade. Meanwhile, crises of economy, climate and conflict mean the number of people living in poverty has barely changed since 1990. Most billionaire wealth is taken, not earned- 60% comes from either inheritance, cronyism, corruption or […]

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Issue briefing

Unheard Water Stories from Asia, Africa and MENA: Elevating local voices for water security in a climate insecure world

20/11/2024

3 documents

19 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French

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This paper shares stories from six countries—Bangladesh, Nepal, Kenya, Somalia, Syria, and Iraq—highlighting the challenges communities face in accessing water. It seeks to bring forward the unique perspectives of communities from diverse backgrounds, each experiencing water crises in distinct ways. While climate change intensifies their crises, many communities also face marginalization due to exclusionary water […]

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Carbon Inequality Kills: Why curbing the excessive emissions of an elite few can create a sustainable planet for all

28/10/2024

8 documents

41 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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The only way to beat climate breakdown and deliver social justice is to radically reduce inequality. This briefing paper reveals the catastrophic climate impacts of the richest individuals in the world, and proposes taking urgent action to protect people and the planet. What little carbon dioxide we can still safely emit is being burned indiscriminately […]

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