Work Under Development

See below for more details of the projects and research themes currently under development. Please get in touch if you would like any more details.

Climate Finance: Is it Transparent, Impactful and Aligned to National Priorities? – Concept Note

Climate change threatens to cause major disruption to the environment and societies across the globe. The impacts of the changing climate will be heavily differentiated based on geography and the resources countries have to adapt to its effects in good time. This concept note proposes to make an important contribution by working with climate vulnerable, low income countries to help track the climate finance they are receiving. The concept note lays out the approach which we have tested to track international finance disbursed to these countries which helps illuminate how much is being given, what it is being given for, and its effects. We will also assess how the funding aligns with these countries’ own climate finance needs analyses and identify where there is duplication and funding gaps. This will contribute to greater agency for poor countries receiving climate finance and a clearer understanding of what is being provided. This work will identify issues with current reporting approaches and datasets and advocate for improvements in transparency of climate finance, as well as providing a methodology for future similar analyses.
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Tracking Funding to Local Organisations – Concept Note

Following six months of exploratory analysis, we have proved that it is possible to use current International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) data sets to analyse funding flows between the world’s major aid funders and their primary recipients, and to determine to what extent those recipients are local. This concept note lays out an approach which would provide an independent baseline of funding flows for the major G7 Aid agencies. The approach has received the support of localisation stakeholders and now we’re seeking funding to scale up the research.
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Tracking International Funding to Care - Concept Note

Despite global efforts to understand and address unpaid care work as a barrier to women’s economic justice, today there is a limited understanding of who funds such efforts, how they do so, and with what results. We propose to provide a base of evidence by tracking international funding to paid and unpaid care work, providing detailed analysis of the results, and in doing so will also be able to offer agreed policy recommendations regarding how such funding is reported. This builds on research undertaken as part of our Women’s Economic Empowerment project where we developed and piloted an approach to track international funding to unpaid care. We hope to build on this work by expanding the scope to include both paid and unpaid care work and to generate timely evidence that examines funding trends both before and within a COVID-19 context.
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