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    ASMARE: informal waste workers engaging in municipal policy-making

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2020
    ASMARE is an association of informal waste workers ( catadores ) in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Founded in 1990, it was the first step of involving catadores as a part of the city’s waste collection scheme. With ASMARE, the catadores moved from working in the streets with no organisation to semi-formality; able to voice their own demands.
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    Ghana Civil Society Platform on the IMF Programme

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2020
    Eleven Accra-based civil society organisations (CSOs) working on social accountability, anti-corruption and governance joined forces in November 2014 to influence the design, implementation and monitoring of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)backed extended credit arrangement for Ghana (2015–18).
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    PEKKA: women-headed household empowerment

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2020
    Grass-roots member-owned cooperatives for female heads of households in rural Indonesia (PEKKA) empower the female members through three economic activities: community-based microfinance through savings and borrowing; a closed trading and marketing system, branded as PEKKA Mart; and economic lobbying and advocacy.
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    Buen Vivir Fund: participatory impact investing

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2020
    The Buen Vivir Fund is a participatory impact investment fund operating internationally. It was founded in 2018 by Thousand Currents, a nongovernmental organisation, following a co-design process to conceptualise the Fund, initiated in 2016. The Buen Vivir Fund started small in terms of volume of capital, having raised US$1m in loan capital for its initial investment cycle of 2018–20.
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    RSF Social Finance: transforming the way the world works with money

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2020
    RSF Social Finance is a public benefit financial services organisation dedicated to transforming the way the world works with money. RSF offers investing, lending, and giving services to individuals and enterprises committed to improving society and the environment.
  • Blog Post

    Progress or platitudes? Women’s rights and gender equality 25 years after Beijing

    05 Mar 2020: This International Women’s Day global institutions and governments are marking the 25th Anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action – a defining framework for change to address gender inequalities and women’s rights.
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    Securing climate finance through national development banks

    Overseas Development Institute, 2020
    A key challenge in the collective endeavour to combat the climate emergency is the shift of global investment and financing flows that underpin current and future growth to low-carbon, climate-resilient (LCCR) growth
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    Mental health for sustainable development: a topic guide for development professionals

    Mental Health Innovation Network, 2020
    While many development professionals recognise the need to do more for mental health, they do not always know where to begin. This topic guide is intended as a primer for development professionals interested in learning more about the basics. Mental health affects us all.
  • Organisation

    Mental Health Innovation Network

    The Mental Health Innovation Network (MHIN) is a community of mental health innovators - researchers, practitioners, policy-makers, service user advocates, and donors from around the world - sharin
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    Control the capital: cities and political dominance

    Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2020
    As optimism about the ‘third wave’ of democratisation has waned in the face of continued and renewed authoritarianism across the world, analyses of authoritarian dominance remain focused primarily on the national scale.

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