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Beyond Aid in Ghana
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Beyond Aid in Ghana sketches the evolution of aid in Ghana as the country assumed a lower middle-income status in its development agenda. It seeks to understand the realities of this trajectory in a milieu of dwindling aid. The report offers an alternative with a focus on domestic revenue mobilisation and emphasises a shift away from consumption-led borrowing to productive investment in core sectors of the economy.
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Promoting youth advocacy for resilience to disasters: a pilot study
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Through Youth Advocacy for Resilience to Disasters (YARDs), we offer a case study of a middle-school science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics (STEAM) programme to engage youth in disaster resilience planning through mapmaking and advocacy. From 2021 to 2023, we designed and implemented a 14-session curriculum that empowers middle-school youth (ages 11–14) to advocate for infrastructural improvements that can benefit their communities by learning about disaster resilience from the perspective of environmental justice and equity. Youth explore virtual mapmaking and data visualisation to understand the assets and vulnerabilities in their communities related to disasters. Finally, they develop an action plan and present their plan to local civic and government leaders to advocate for change. This curriculum was piloted as an after-school programme in the fall of 2022 and twice as a summer camp in 2022 and 2023. Results from student surveys, field note observations, and focus groups show that there was increased self-efficacy among the participants for advocacy behaviours related to natural disasters and an increase in their understanding of and feelings of importance of the programme topics. This article can help inform others working with youth on successes and challenges with programme development around disaster resilience.
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Water-Driven Hunger: How the Climate Crisis Fuels Africa's Food Emergency
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This paper calls for an integrated water and food security management in eight Eastern and Southern African countries—Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia, South Sudan, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. These countries, identified as Hunger Hotspots for 2025 and among the 30 most water insecure globally, are also experiencing the severe impacts of climate variability. The paper strongly recommends that multilateral bodies, governments, donors, and the private sector implement sustainable adaptation and mitigation measures—such as strengthening national hydro-meteorological forecasting systems, increasing investment in anticipatory action, ensuring access to climate finance etc. to tackle the root causes of these crises. Furthermore, it also provides insights into effective water management practices that can help national governments and policymakers adopt comprehensive policies, ultimately improving governance to tackle the triple crises of water, food and climate.
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Pathways to a Fast and Just Energy Transition: Insights from Clean Energy Case Studies
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The clean energy transition continues to gather pace and scale, despite push back from some quarters. The key challenge is therefore not whether it will happen but how to shape it in favour of greater speed, justice, and shared prosperity. This briefing paper draws out insights from just clean energy case studies that seek to help mitigate the climate crisis and simultaneously reduce inequality, generate shared prosperity, and garner public support for the transition. They include examples of policies, business models and projects relating to the switch to renewable energy, the exit from fossil fuels, and the extraction of transition minerals. While none of the cases fully meet all the identified just energy transition principles, taken together they offer a positive vision and compelling reasons why governments, donors, multilateral agencies, business and civil society should put justice and rights at the heart of their energy transition policies and projects.
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Flow, Food, and Flood: Embodied aquaculture in a climate-stressed world
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This essay draws from a larger study that explores gender and social inclusion in small-scale aquaculture in Ubon Ratchathani Province, Thailand, using a feminist political ecology (FPE) lens. Through qualitative research, we examine how fish farmers’ embodied experiences reveal the intersections of labour, emotional well-being, and food security within broader socioeconomic and environmental challenges. Hydropower development, particularly the Pak Mun and Lam Dom dams, has disrupted traditional fisheries, forcing small-scale farmers to adapt amid declining fish stocks, unpredictable flooding, and market volatility. The contributions of small-scale fish farmers, especially women, remain undervalued as they juggle aquaculture, agriculture, and household responsibilities while facing structural barriers to expanding their farms. Climate change further exacerbates these vulnerabilities, with extreme droughts and floods destabilising livelihoods. The study highlights how fish farmers experience uncertainty and displacement not only as economic hardships but as deeply embodied realities affecting emotional and physical well-being. Recognising these lived experiences is crucial for designing nature-based solutions in aquaculture that account for both ecological sustainability and social justice. By centring the voices of marginalised fish farmers, particularly women, we argue for policy approaches that integrate emotional and material dimensions of labour to create more life-enhancing aquaculture systems.
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Care & the Platform Economy in the UK: A Mapping Exercise
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In the UK and globally, in-home domestic childcare and adult care services are increasingly being provided via digital platforms, with significant implications for in-home/domestic care workers.
This paper maps what we already know about this phenomenon and identifies knowledge gaps that could be filled through focused research in support of influencing initiatives aimed at improving rights and protection for care platform workers. The mapping focuses on capturing the key challenges and opportunities that care platforms pose for workers; examining what UK policies are relevant to these platforms and their workers; and identifying key influencing work on this issue.
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Changing Face of Aid in Africa: Outlook, failures, and reform potential
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The year 2025 has been marked by deepening aid cuts by major donors. This briefing note examines the implications of these cuts on Africa’s development, highlighting long-standing failures in official development assistance (ODA) to reduce poverty, inequality, and climate vulnerability. It analyses ODA trends across sectors, gaps in support to Least Developed Countries and women’s rights organizations, and the misalignment with aid effectiveness principles. The paper calls for reforming aid systems to centre equity, strengthen country ownership, and rebuild global cooperation grounded in justice and solidarity.
This briefing note is anchored on data and finding from a partner led research piece: https://roaafrica.org/main/view_resource/49.
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How to increase taxes on fossil fuel profits
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Taxing excess profits, both in the fossil fuel industry and the overall corporate sector, is essential to restructure the economy to tackle climate breakdown, reduce inequality and make rich polluters pay. This briefing paper sets out Oxfam’s proposal for two taxes: a Rich Polluter Profit Tax (RPPT) on fossil fuel corporations, and an Excess Profit Tax (EPT) across all other sectors. An RPPT will ensure renewables are always more profitable than fossil fuel investments, and an EPT will reduce market concentration and the concentration of wealth, reducing inequality. Both can be implemented through existing corporate tax systems. Together, they could raise over US $1 trillion in their first year, which could fund vital investments for people and the planet. The paper explains how governments can design, administer and coordinate these taxes nationally and globally, to fund a just, gender responsive climate transition and fairer public finance.
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Taking others in: conceptualising hosting with feminist ethics of care and mutual aid
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The practice of hosting or families taking in families displaced by conflict or disaster and providing them with shelter has a long history. Since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which affected countries both in South-East and South Asia, humanitarian agencies and donors have been intentional in adding hosting to their repertoire of short-term accommodation strategies to shelter displaced families. Practitioners and donors often argue that hosting is an extension of a culture of hospitality. These actors then leverage an essentialised notion of hospitality to craft assistance packages to encourage hosting and defray some of its associated costs. However, this aligns with the neoliberal turn, as they ‘pass off’ shelter responsibilities from host country governments to individual families and communities, assuming displaced families and their hosts will adapt to one another’s presence until a permanent shelter solution emerges. In this article, I build on my previous work that explored hosting’s intra-household dynamics. This essay is an opportunity for me to ask new questions about my work on hosting practice and to reconsider hosting through the lens of feminist care ethics and within recent writings on mutual aid in post-disaster contexts. My intention is twofold. First, I hope to offer practice-based recommendations to agencies and donor institutions interested in promoting hosting in disaster response and recovery programming; recommendations that help them to be more intentional about how hosting might be enacted as a form of care and for supporting mutual aid strategies and building solidarity. Second, I contribute to emerging literature on the relationship between neoliberalism and resilience, as I consider hosting as part of the everyday of disaster recovery.
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The Roadmap Towards Gender Transformation in the Kampala Declaration and the CAADP Ten-Year Implementation Plan and Strategy (2026-2035): Defining Africa’s response metrics in the third iteration of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme
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The newly launched 10-year Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Strategy and Action Plan (2026–2035) represents a crucial initiative for enhancing productivity and fostering cohesive agricultural development throughout the continent. The forthcoming results framework for this strategy will lay out the objectives to be pursued in the transformation of the agriculture sector and will serve as a strategic guidance and measurement tool for harmonizing growth in agricultural value chains across Africa. This report aims to enhance the accountability and outcomes of this results framework by ensuring that African development initiatives adequately recognize and support women’s rights and contributions. Several significant barriers currently obstruct progress in this area, including lack of gender-disaggregated data, limited engagement by women in formulating policies, women’s poor access to financial resources, and deeply entrenched cultural constraints.
Using gender-sensitive indicators, policymakers can foster targeted interventions aimed at promoting gender equality in agricultural policies. The recommendations highlighted in this document take into account the critical role of women and youth in advancing Africa’s agri-value chains. This report calls for the new CAADP Strategy and Action Plan (2026–2035) to align with (and then measure for) the gender priorities envisioned in pan-African gender blueprints, which aim to create equitable opportunities for all genders across various sectors, including agriculture, as exemplified by the African Union’s Strategy for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment. This aspiration aligns with the broader ambitions articulated in regional frameworks such as Africa’s Agenda 2063 and the Malabo Declaration on Accelerated Agricultural Growth and Transformation for Shared Prosperity and Improved Livelihoods in Africa.
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