“To Scare People”: US Expulsions of Third-Country Nationals to Countries in...
Tesfay T., a 35-year-old man from Ethiopia, fled to the United States after having been imprisoned and tortured in his home country. He was tortured again in Mexico after being kidnapped there and...
View ArticleBetween Silence and Solidarity
This report documents the findings and analyses from a Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) project conducted with a collective of twelve researchers (ten community co-researchers and two lead...
View ArticlePowering AI at Scale: Optimizing Hyperscale Data Centre Infrastructure in MENA
Pressure is mounting on countries across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) to rapidly scale hyperscale data centre capacity – the core infrastructure underpinning the region’s AI ambitions....
View ArticleThe Impact Economy: Turning Disclosure into Demand
Only 15% of Sustainable Development Goal targets with sufficient trend data are on track – even as companies increasingly disclose their social impacts. The challenge is no longer visibility alone, but...
View ArticleThe Real Cost of Debt
In 2026, Global South countries are due to pay nearly US$400-billion to external creditors - double the amount they paid just a decade ago, according to World Bank projections. A third of this goes...
View ArticleThe failed Billions to Trillions experiment: What comes next?
This report exposes how, rather than unlocking trillions of dollars, the World Bank's Billions to Trillions agenda has facilitated public-to-private wealth transfers, constrained countries’ policy...
View ArticleWorld Energy Transition Outlook 2026: 1.5°C Pathway
The global energy transition has entered a decisive new phase. Renewable energy deployment continues to break records, technology costs have fallen significantly and electrification is advancing across...
View ArticleMore critical than ever: strengthening growth and resilience through the...
With aid in record decline, private finance flat and China now a net debt collector, multilateral development banks (MDBs) have become more important than ever to developing countries. Since the G20...
View ArticleActionSA 2026 Local Government Manifesto
Fixing South Africa starts with fixing local government ActionSA was founded by patriotic South Africans who believe that government must work for the people it serves. We believe in capable, ethical...
View ArticleWhere next for feminist foreign policy on regional multilateralism and human...
As the liberal order faces increasing challenges, and geo-political centres of power shift, regional human rights mechanisms are essential for safeguarding gender equality, social inclusion and...
View ArticleNational Development Banks: policy integration for climate
National development banks (NDBs) are well placed to turn climate commitments into investment, but are governments using them? Reviewing 222 NDBs across 103 emerging and developing economies, this...
View ArticleThe Distance Between Us – Minding the Democratic Governance Gap Beyond the...
Across both South Africa and Kenya, democracy appears to be facing an increasing paradox. Electoral institutions have become entrenched, constitutional norms have become more firmly anchored in...
View ArticleElecting Councillors – A Guide to Municipal Elections
The Dullah Omar Institute has produced a very comprehensive guide to the forthcoming Local Government Elections. Among other things it deals with the right to vote, procedures on voting day, the way in...
View ArticleTime for Action – Corruption in Joburg
Johannesburg’s decline has been exacerbated by corruption that robs the city of the resources needed to maintain and expand infrastructure. Worse, it has been exploited by people who profit from...
View ArticleIFP Local Government Elections Manifesto 2026
Economic growth succeeds or fails at the municipal level. Local governments must become dynamic economic hubs that prioritise local employment, support local businesses and protect the livelihoods of...
View ArticleMunicipal People’s Analysis of Manifestos
What are parties promising, and does it match what your community actually needs? My Vote Counts releases Municipal People’s Analysis of Manifestos ahead of the 2026 Local Government Elections
View ArticleThe GEAR Framework: Measuring how renewable energy boosts climate resilience...
The GEAR (Growth through Energy Agriculture and Resilience) Framework, developed jointly by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the International Institute for Environment and...
View ArticleLong-term energy scenarios and low-emission development strategies: Aligning...
Aligning the scenarios underpinning national energy and climate plans is essential to ensure sound policy direction in the transition to renewable energy. While these planning processes have...
View ArticleAdvancing women’s economic opportunities in the solar energy sector
Transitions to renewable energy are a key element of energy security and are vital for low-carbon development. They also have important implications for people’s livelihoods and well-being. In 2024, at...
View ArticleEvaluation of Global Health Days 2019–2023: Executive summary
WHO's mandate includes raising awareness about global health issues and mobilising support for action globally, regionally and nationally. One strategy in this effort is the observance of Global Health...
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