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This white paper forms the first of a three-part series offering tailored recommendations for civil society, governments, and the private sector, as part of the Walking the Talk Consortium’s Financing Feminist Futures research initiative. Our research examines the opportunities and challenges in advancing financing avenues for feminist and climate movements, particularly through engagement with the private sector approach of Corporate Social Responsibility.
This white paper forms the second of a three-part series offering tailored recommendations for civil society, governments, and the private sector, as part of the Walking the Talk Consortium’s Financing Feminist Futures research initiative. Our research examines the opportunities and challenges in advancing financing avenues for feminist and climate movements, particularly through engagement with the private sector approach of Corporate Social Responsibility.
This white paper forms the third of a three-part series offering tailored recommendations for civil society, governments, and the private sector, as part of the Walking the Talk Consortium’s Financing Feminist Futures research initiative. Our research examines the opportunities and challenges in advancing financing avenues for feminist and climate movements, particularly through engagement with the private sector approach of Corporate Social Responsibility.
This research paper was commissioned as part of a 13-project study on financing for feminist movements, led by the Walking the Talk Consortium partners Hivos, Equipop, Restless Development, ODI Europe, and DSW. Our research calls for the regulation of governments and corporations in climate responsiveness. It further highlights the importance of integrating gender equity into climate adaptation financing based on equitable participation from local and grassroots organizations/movements. Climate adaptive and responsive funding is high yet a low percentage of foundation grants got to Women’s rights movements. The authors highlight that Corporate Social Responsibility present an opportunity/ alternative to existing funding models. Existing CSR models fail to integrate gender equality. As a solution, the researchers suggest the alignment of international and philanthropic donors with CSR frameworks and government strategies ensuring more effective and sustainable Public-private partnerships. This paper is important in that it focuses on the importance of strategy alignment and greater collaboration between different funders. Can countries create local funding pools with CSR funds, government and international funders?
This report examines the aspects of gender equity and social inclusion (GESI) in Peru’s plastic value chain, highlighting the disproportionate impact of plastic pollution on select groups, including women, informal waste workers, and rural communities. Note: This publication is in Spanish.
In summer 2023, Catalystas conducted the final evaluation of the Community-Led Innovation Partnership Program, an initiative designed to support the creation, scaling, or adoption of locally-driven solutions identified and designed by people affected by crises and is actively pushing to realize humanitarian responses that meet existing humanitarian needs in a dignified, sustainable, efficient, and effective way. The CLIP was led by a consortium of humanitarian innovation actors: Elrha, Start Network, Asia Disaster Reduction and Response Network (supported by their Tokyo Innovation Hub), Yakkum Emergency Unit (Indonesia), the Center for Disaster Preparedness (the Philippines), Start Network Hub in Guatemala, hosted by Asociación de Servicios Comunitarios de Salud (ASECSA). The evaluation serves the consortium in guiding the CLIP into its next phase of implementation.
What is intersectional feminism and why does it matter? Understanding how our lived experiences intersect and interact is a core foundation for effective development. This article explores how an intersectional lens can be applied and understood in practical terms.
In autumn 2020, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs commissioned Catalystas Consultancy to carry out a study on the entrepreneurship ecosystem and its effects on women in Côte d’Ivoire for the Private Sector Development Toolkit, which operates as an instrument for the international department of the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (NEA).
Over the course of Q2 and Q3 of 2019, Catalystas conducted a multi-country scoping study on behalf of the Netherlands Embassy in Bamako, Mali and the Netherlands Enterprise Agency to investigate opportunities for enabling youth and women’s economic empowerment in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. The country report on Mali is publicly available in both English and French.
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