STRATEGY SUMMARY & IMPLEMENTATION PLAN STRATEGY

The Institute for Economic Justice (IEJ) has released its Strategy Summary & Implementation Plan for 2023–2027, which outlines a framework to achieve systemic social and economic change. The strategy focuses on producing critical knowledge, shifting economic discourse, and supporting collective power to advance economic justice in South Africa and across the African continent, with a specific emphasis on feminist and intersectional analytical lenses.

• The IEJ's strategic goals for 2023–2027 are divided into three primary pillars: producing knowledge that critically engages with economic systems to advance just socioeconomic outcomes; shifting economic discourse and providing alternative policy proposals; and supporting the building of collective power by strengthening heterodox economic analysis in South Africa and the African continent.
• The organization is implementing a project-based approach to achieve its objectives, including a 'Resourcing for Rights Realisation' project focusing on tax justice, debt justice, and climate finance, and a 'Basic Income' project aiming for a universal basic income for South Africans aged 18-59, indexed to the upper-bound poverty line.
• The IEJ is prioritizing the integration of feminist economics through the 'African Feminist Economic Research and Policy Networks' project and a 'mainstreaming' effort across all projects, specifically piloting an 'Economies of Care' subproject that links care work to resourcing, basic income, and food systems.
• The strategy includes a focus on a 'Just Energy Transition' to reduce energy poverty and provide decent work. This work is initially focused on South Africa, Kenya, and Ghana, with South African efforts specifically targeting the energy crisis, state-owned enterprise resourcing, and social ownership of renewable energy.
• The IEJ is working to reform economic education through the 'Challenging Economic Orthodoxies' project, which supports the 'Rethinking Economics for African' student movement to implement heterodox reforms in university economics teaching and learning.
• The organization has undergone an organizational 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 IEJ has experienced significant financial growth, with annual expenditure increasing from R3,228,196 (~$240,000) in 2018/19 to a budgeted R34,921,032 ($1,900,000) in 2023. While the number of funders grew from three in the first year to seventeen in 2023, the organization 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.

Wikipedia

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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} }