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Communities Driving Change: Articulating Outcomes and Impacts of Community-led Response - Humanitarian Advisory Group

Communities Driving Change: Articulating Outcomes and Impacts of Community-led Response - Humanitarian Advisory Group | International development | Scoop.it
December 2025 Research team: Humanitarian Advisory Group, ECOWEB, Thura Thun, NSDation, and GLOW Consultants Categories HH Power People and Local Leadership Featured Localisation Download PDF Research Brief Communities are the first to mobilise in crises and the ones who continue responding long...
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Time to Walk the Talk: The IMF’s tax advice, 2022-2024

Time to Walk the Talk: The IMF’s tax advice, 2022-2024 | International development | Scoop.it
Since the pandemic, the IMF’s leadership has been urging countries to pursue more progressive tax policies, backed up by the Fund’s own research. Despite this encouraging development, the IMF’s policy advice on tax in its Article IV reports since the pandemic has been skewed towards regressive taxation. This indicates its continued insistence on austerity as […]
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Hiding Behind AI

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How SHA Was Used to Load Health System Costs Onto Poorest. Uncensored.

Kenya’s AI-driven health reforms driving up costs | An investigation has found that an AI system used to predict how much Kenyans can afford to pay for healthcare has made healthcare more expensive for the poor. The system, introduced in 2024 to replace Kenya’s decades-old national insurance system, has sparked protests, as healthcare contributions for millions of people are now calculated using a formula described as “flawed” and lacking transparency.

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What a Waste 3.0: Global Snapshot of Solid Waste Management Toward Circularity until 2050

What a Waste 3.0 is the third edition of the World Bank Group’s What a Waste series, following the 2012 and 2018 publications. It updates and expands these earlier publications and provides a global reference dataset on municipal solid waste in the context of a transition toward circularity, drawing on the most recent publicly accessible data from 217 countries and economies and 262 cities. This edition consolidates data on waste generation, composition, collection, treatment, and disposal, and presents trends by region and income group. It also includes information on legislation, institutional arrangements, plastics management, private sector participation, employment, environmental impacts, and the costs and financing of municipal waste services.

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2026 GEM Report | Global Education Monitoring Report

Access and equity: Countdown to 2030
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Why do Countries Walk Away from International Organizations? And What do Current Breakups Mean for Global Politics? (UNU-CPR)

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The United Nations World Water Development Report 2026: Water for All People – Equal Rights and Opportunities (UNESCO / UN-WATER)

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Routes Monitor (UNHCR)

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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has launched the Routes Monitor, a new data platform offering the most comprehensive picture to date of mixed movements across and along major global routes. Updated monthly, the platform brings together multiple sources of information – including from UNHCR, national authorities, UN and NGO partners, and media and social media monitoring – to show evolving trends, highlight protection needs and support more effective responses along entire journeys

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Water supply high on Africans’ policy agendaamid persistent access and service gaps

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No Representation, No Peace: The African demand for a reformed Security Council

No Representation, No Peace: The African demand for a reformed Security Council | International development | Scoop.it
No Representation, No Peace exposes how Africa’s exclusion from permanent membership on the UN Security Council continues to undermine global peace and security. Drawing on case studies from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Western Sahara, the report shows how decisions taken without African representation have fuelled implementation failures, sidelined local voices, and entrenched […]
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Asia and the Pacific SDG Progress Report 2026 (ESCAP)

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The Least Developed Countries Report 2025: Are services the new path to structural transformation?

The Least Developed Countries Report 2025: Are services the new path to structural transformation? | International development | Scoop.it
Loading... Loading… Report downloads The Least Developed Countries Report 2025 (Overview) (UNCTAD/LDC/2025 (Overview)) - 10 Feb 2026 English | Français | Español | العربية | 简体中文 | Русский The Least Developed Countries Report 2025: Are services the new path to structural transformation?
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Economic Enterprises Data Tracker | CEDA

 

The Economic Enterprises Data Tracker India

https://enterprisetracker.ceda.ashoka.edu.in/

has been created by

 by the Centre for Economic Data & Analysis

it provides free access to data on India’s formal and informal enterprises from Annual Survey of Industries (ASI), Annual Survey of Unincorporated Sector Enterprises (ASUSE), and earlier National Sample Survey (NSS). It standardizes key variables to provide insights on investment, productivity, credit, employment, and enterprise characteristics. Users can explore national and state-level trends through interactive charts, visualizations, and downloadable datasets. Information on data content is provided via the website

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Social Impact Report 2024 – 2025: Ideas That Change Crisis Response - Humanitarian Advisory Group

Social Impact Report 2024 – 2025: Ideas That Change Crisis Response - Humanitarian Advisory Group | International development | Scoop.it
March 2026 By Humanitarian Advisory Group Categories Annual reports Featured Download PDF At HAG, we work with various humanitarian actors; donors, governments, NGOs, UN agencies and the private sector to better serve crisis affected communities across the Indo-Pacific region and beyond.
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The Edge of Influence: Lessons on Power, Partnership and Pressure in Private Sector Engagement from the FAIR for ALL Programme Oxfam

The Edge of Influence: Lessons on Power, Partnership and Pressure in Private Sector Engagement from the FAIR for ALL Programme Oxfam | International development | Scoop.it
This discussion paper examines how FAIR for ALL partners engaged with the private sector to advance fairer and more sustainable global trade and value chains. Drawing on insights from eight countries and regions, it identifies the key factors that shape effective private sector engagement amid diverse and often complex challenges. The findings show how civil […]
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Ahead of the Santa Marta Conference, 340+ civil society organisations call for global coalition to break free from ISDS

OVER 340 civil society organisations have signed an open statement(external link) calling on governments around the world to build a coalition to “free themselves” from a little-known international system of secretive tribunals. Published ahead of the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels(external link), taking place in Colombia at the end of April, the statement says this system, formally known as investor-state dispute settlement or ISDS, “threatens a just transition from fossil fuels and the urgent need for a social and ecological transformation for people and the planet.

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Progressing Beyond GDP: Towards a Multidimensional Living Standards Index (MLSI) and Integrated Headline Measure of Gross National Sustainable Development (GNSD)

The United Nations Economist Network (UNEN) has launched its new Working Paper Series. This inaugural paper explores innovative approaches to measuring sustainable development and well‑being beyond traditional economic indicators.

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Beyond creative accounting: Restoring trust in the climate finance regime UNCTAD

Beyond creative accounting: Restoring trust in the climate finance regime UNCTAD | International development | Scoop.it
Countries have agreed to mobilize $300 billion a year by 2035 as part of a broader $1.3 trillion climate finance ambition.
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Nourish and Flourish: Water Solutions to Feed 10 Billion People on a Livable Planet World Bank

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AI and development economics: Early evidence and how to keep up

AI and development economics: Early evidence and how to keep up | International development | Scoop.it
I have been (trying) to keep track of the latest AI-related thinking and research that is relevant to low- and middle-income countries. It is hard to know where to look and what to trust, here are the best resources and platforms I have come across.
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ILO - Child Labour Observatory

as a one-stop shop for data, legislation, policies and evidence of progress to accelerate efforts towards the elimination of child labour.

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Building Disaster Resilient Communities Through Women’s Leadership

Building Disaster Resilient Communities Through Women’s Leadership | International development | Scoop.it
Women in Nepal and the Philippines, along with those in other Asian countries, suffer disproportionately from disasters caused by natural hazards yet are excluded from leadership in disaster preparedness and response (DPR). Even as women make a crucial contribution to community resilience, they are hindered from DPR participation by restrictive social norms, limited financial resources, […]
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Jamaica MPI | OPHI

Jamaica MPI | OPHI | International development | Scoop.it
Jamaica MPI MPI originally introduced: 2025 Latest MPI publication The Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) published the country's first national MPI in 2025, followed by an official launch in January 2026.
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New UNU-INRA report on Critical Minerals

New UNU-INRA report on Critical Minerals | International development | Scoop.it
Africa Redefining Critical Minerals For A Shared Future: South South Solidarity in Action
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State of Power report TNI

 14th State of Power report 

https://www.tni.org/en/mapping-fascism

from the Transnational Institute Examines authoritarianism and power in the world. Mapping the role of big tech, financial institutions and  networks f fascism and the far right worldwide.

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