African economies rely heavily on women's unpaid and underpaid care work, including childcare, household maintenance, community support, and essential social reproduction. This work sustains families and national development but remains largely invisible in fiscal planning, social protection systems, and macroeconomic…
Across the world, governments are facing connected ecological, social, and economic crises. Climate change, biodiversity loss, widening inequality, debt distress, and unstable global supply chains are increasing pressure on countries to rebuild their productive systems in ways that are more…
This feminist popular education toolkit connects care work, food systems, and climate change, offering facilitators practical activities to support gender-just, community-led transformation across Southern Africa.
The G20 sits at a crossroads of purpose, legitimacy, and possibility. Since its elevation to a leaders' forum in 2008, the Group of Twenty (G20) has cemented its purpose as the primary platform for crisis response and macroeconomic coordination. When financial crises…
This fact sheet outlines how South Africa's Climate Change Act can be leveraged to transform the food system, ensuring justice, resilience, and inclusion for farmers, workers, women, youth, and households most affected by climate change.
Neil Coleman explores the global political economy shaping social protection and the fight for universal basic income, contrasting realities in the Global North and South and outlining the structural reforms needed to advance economic justice.
The IEJ is one of 165 co-signatories calling on President Ramaphosa to take decisive action on the debt crisis facing Africa and the Global South, urging reforms to ensure fair, transparent, and sustainable debt practices that protect essential services and human rights.
The G20 sits at the centre of the global climate dilemma. Member countries can either allow oil and gas production to surge, locking in climate catastrophe, or scale it back in line with a just energy transition. Despite climate pledges,…
Rising Food Prices Since 2020, the cost of staple foods like maize, wheat and cooking oil has kept climbing. Climate change, global market disruptions, high input costs and corporate control of food value chains have driven these increases. For low-income…
This worker-centred framework has been co-produced with the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). South Africa’s transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient economy must be fair, inclusive, and centred on workers and communities. A Worker-Centred Framework for Financing the Just…