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This report analyzes the opportunities and barriers to digitizing humanitarian and social protection cash transfers in Nigeria. It identifies a bank-led market where most payments are still delivered via over-the-counter cash collection or restricted e-vouchers. The study highlights regulatory hurdles, such as agent e-float limits and high USSD costs, alongside low recipient digital literacy and infrastructure gaps, while proposing a segmentation-based approach to transition ready recipients toward permanent digital wallets.

The report provides a strategic roadmap to transition humanitarian and social protection cash transfers in Nigeria from physical cash to a permanent digital wallet system within an open-loop payment ecosystem. It identifies key barriers, including recipient unreadiness, regulatory restrictions, and a fragmented digital payment landscape, and proposes a phased approach involving recipient segmentation, digital ecosystem development, and regulatory advocacy.

This briefing analyzes the potential impacts of the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework's global digital tax reforms on resource-rich countries, specifically within the mining sector. While framed as a digital tax, the two-pillar approach has broad implications for how mining multinationals are taxed and how revenue is allocated between producer countries and market jurisdictions.

This briefing note examines the potential impacts of the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework's two-pillar digital tax reform on the mining sector and resource-rich countries. While labeled as digital tax reform, the initiative has broad implications for the taxation of non-renewable resources and the ability of developing nations to collect revenues from multinational mining enterprises.

This briefing by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) provides a comprehensive set of 25 policy recommendations for governments to promote gender equality and protect women's rights within the mining sector. It emphasizes the need to move beyond voluntary corporate social responsibility toward legislative frameworks that integrate human rights standards, gender-disaggregated data collection, and targeted investments in women's safety and economic empowerment.

This briefing by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) provides a comprehensive set of 25 policy recommendations for governments to integrate gender perspectives into mining governance. It argues that mining activities transform societies in ways that disproportionately affect men and women, often leaving women with minimal benefits and higher exposure to environmental and social risks. The document outlines strategies across legislation, institutional capacity, land acquisition, impact assessments, community development, safety, and crisis management to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in the mining sector.

This briefing by the International Institute for Sustainable Development provides policy recommendations for governments to promote gender equality and women's empowerment within the mining sector. It outlines a comprehensive framework covering legislation, institutional strengthening, land acquisition, impact assessments, community development, and security to mitigate the disproportionate negative impacts of mining on women and ensure they share in the sector's benefits.

This briefing by the International Institute for Sustainable Development argues that gender equality is a prerequisite for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It highlights how systemic barriers, discriminatory laws, and the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on women hinder environmental and social progress, while demonstrating that women's leadership in natural resource governance and climate action leads to more effective and sustainable outcomes.

This policy brief argues that the COVID-19 pandemic highlights the critical link between human health and environmental degradation, advocating for a 'planetary health' approach to green recovery. It calls for the integration of health and environmental policies, financing, and data metrics to prevent future zoonotic outbreaks and address systemic inequalities.

The report argues that the 2019 Political Agreement for Peace and Reconciliation in the Central African Republic has failed due to a lack of implementation and the continued dominance of armed groups. It highlights a 'war economy' that incentivizes instability and notes that the state remains unable to provide its own security, relying on UN troops and bilateral support from Russia and Rwanda. The author calls for a new, holistic approach that prioritizes regional cooperation and economic reconstruction over simple power-sharing agreements.

The March 2021 Peace & Security Council Report by the Institute for Security Studies examines several critical security and financial challenges facing the African Union (AU), including the Ethiopia–Sudan border dispute, the insurgency in Mozambique, the AU's financial dependence on external partners, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) impasse, and the transition of AMISOM in Somalia.

This report by the Institute for Security Studies analyses the roles and motivations of women associated with katiba Macina in Mali and Boko Haram in Niger. It details how these violent extremist groups (VEGs) utilise women for recruitment, logistics, intelligence, and operational tasks, while examining the diverse pathways—ranging from voluntary association to kidnapping—that lead women into these groups.

This policy brief examines the role of international development finance institutions (DFIs) and multilateral development banks (MDBs) in addressing South Africa's infrastructure deficit. It analyzes the shift from a historical reluctance to seek external aid toward a current necessity driven by rising public debt and the economic impact of COVID-19. The document details the government's Infrastructure Build Programme, the establishment of the Investment and Infrastructure Office (IIO), and the creation of a ZAR100 billion Infrastructure Fund, while highlighting critical gaps in project preparation skills and procurement coordination.

This policy brief by the South African Institute of International Affairs examines the role of agriculture in the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) of Southern African countries. It argues that while agriculture is often mentioned, NDCs frequently lack quantifiable commitments, detailed financing plans, and the active inclusion of farmers. The document provides recommendations for strengthening these climate policies to better support farmers' interests and enhance the agency of national farmers' organisations (NFOs).

This executive summary, commissioned by Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL), provides guidance to the Government of Sierra Leone (GoSL) for the sustainable development of its mini-grid sector. It compares the regulatory frameworks, tariff structures, and subsidy schemes of Sierra Leone and Nigeria, while emphasizing the role of Productive Use of Electricity (PUE) in enhancing rural economic development and mini-grid viability.

This fact sheet from the Stockholm Environment Institute explains the role of citizen participation in creating sustainable cities, detailing its importance for reducing inequalities, the various levels of engagement, and specific methods such as participatory budgeting and citizen panels.

Natural Justice (NJ), a non-profit organization, submitted comments on the draft Expropriation Bill, 2020, to the South African Department of Public Works. While welcoming the Bill's goal to replace the Expropriation Act of 1975 and allow for expropriation without compensation to redress historical land imbalances, NJ argues the draft is too state-centric, lacks climate change considerations, and fails to provide sufficient mechanisms for public oversight and the protection of vulnerable land rights holders.

A case study on the OffgridSun project in Zimbabwe, which installed solar-powered water pumping systems to mitigate the effects of El Niño-induced droughts in rural communities.

This briefing by Zero Carbon Analytics argues that immediate and transparent emission cuts are essential to avoid ecological disaster, as the cumulative nature of CO2 means that delaying action increases peak temperatures even if net-zero targets are eventually met.

This policy brief by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) examines the intersection of Canada's national hydrogen strategy and its commitments to phase out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies. It argues for a high threshold for justifying blue hydrogen subsidies to ensure alignment with net-zero goals by 2050.