STRATEGY SUMMARY & IMPLEMENTATION PLAN STRATEGY

The IEJ Strategy 2023–2027 focuses on producing knowledge and shifting economic discourse to achieve systemic social and economic change. The plan identifies six programmatic projects targeting macroeconomic frameworks, feminist economics, and a just transition in energy and food systems. To support these goals, the IEJ is transitioning from siloed programme areas to a project-based organisational structure and implementing a comprehensive monitoring, evaluation, and learning framework. Financially, the organisation has seen significant growth, with budgeted expenditure rising from approximately R3.2 million in 2018/19 to R34.9 million in 2023, though it continues to seek more long-term core funding.

• The IEJ has established three primary goals for its 2023-2027 period: producing knowledge to advance systemic change centering just socioeconomic outcomes, shifting economic discourse to provide alternative policy proposals, and supporting the building of collective power through heterodox economic analysis in South Africa and the African continent.
• The 'Resourcing for Rights Realisation' project aims to influence African governments to adopt policies for re-integrating into the global financial system on just terms, focusing specifically on tax justice, debt justice, and climate finance, including South Africa's Just Energy Transition climate financing partnership (JET-P).
• The IEJ is pursuing a project to realize a universal basic income for South Africans aged 18-59, which would be indexed to the upper-bound poverty line and funded via progressive taxation.
• The organisation is implementing a project to tackle the exclusion of feminist-centred economics by bolstering feminist economic analysis and application in three thematic areas: resource mobilisation, climate policy (specifically food systems), and the intersection of care work and social protection.
• The Just Energy Transition project focuses on reducing energy poverty and providing decent work through the localisation of renewable energy value chains, with initial regional focus on Kenya, Ghana, and South Africa.
• The IEJ is working toward a just transition in the food system, with an intermediate goal for South Africa's Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development to adopt at least two policies reflecting a just transition agenda agreed upon by the Presidential Climate Commission.
• The IEJ has undergone an organisational redesign, moving from broad 'programme areas' to focused 'projects' and establishing three departments: the programme team; the strategy, organisational development, and communications team; and the finance and operations team.
• The organisation's annual expenditure has grown significantly from R3,228,196 (~$240,000) in 2018/19 to a budgeted R34,921,032 ($1,900,000) in 2023, though it notes a lack of sufficient long-term core or flexible funding.

APA

Institute for Economic Justice (2024). STRATEGY SUMMARY & IMPLEMENTATION PLAN STRATEGY. https://iej.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IEJ-strategy-implementation-plan-2023-2027.pdf

Chicago

Institute for Economic Justice. STRATEGY SUMMARY & IMPLEMENTATION PLAN STRATEGY. 2024. https://iej.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IEJ-strategy-implementation-plan-2023-2027.pdf.

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BibTeX

@techreport{instituteforeconomicjustice2024strategy, author = {{Institute for Economic Justice}}, title = {{STRATEGY SUMMARY \& IMPLEMENTATION PLAN STRATEGY}}, institution = {Institute for Economic Justice}, year = {2024}, month = mar, url = {https://iej.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IEJ-strategy-implementation-plan-2023-2027.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }