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Blog Post
August 16, 2023
Despite verbal nods to global cooperation, equity, and solidarity, the COVID-19 pandemic laid bare a brutal realpolitik: all countries will put their citizens first and vaccinate their own populations, before offering charitable leftovers beyond their own borders. Sub-Saharan Africa, more than any o...
Blog Post
August 15, 2023
Everyone agrees that Ghana's school feeding programme is an important and useful social programme…but insufficient and poor quality food is compromising its impacts; government financing remains a challenge; and it lacks lacks broader support and accountability mechanisms. The programme has huge pot...
Blog Post
August 07, 2023
While donors are increasingly interested in both promoting evidence-based policymaking and advancing locally led development, the two agendas have often remained separate. This is a missed opportunity. A recent CGD working group underscored the value of locally immersed researchers and organizations...
POLICY PAPERS
August 07, 2023
CGD conducted a landscaping exercise to better understand the current landscape of organizations headquartered in sub-Saharan Africa that boast impact evaluation capacity. The resulting database is intended as a resource for funders looking to advance locally led development; to help facilitate coor...
Blog Post
July 25, 2023
The principle of a “just transition” is anchored in the 2015 Paris Agreement. But only in recent years has this principle been fully recognized as an enabler and accelerator of coal power decarbonization efforts. A just transition integrates decarbonization efforts with measures to mitigate the dire...
CGD NOTES
July 25, 2023
The principle of a “just transition” is anchored in the 2015 Paris Agreement. But only in recent years has the principle been fully recognized as an enabler and accelerator of power decarbonization efforts by integrating measures that aim to mitigate the direct, indirect, and induced adverse impacts...
CGD NOTES
June 22, 2023
So far, most of the focus in Indonesia’s JETP has been on efforts to reduce the supply of carbon-intensive power by refinancing coal-fired power plants to retire them early and replace them with renewables. But this strategy alone may not deliver the speed and scale of the transition required. Decar...
Blog Post
June 14, 2023
When Senegal closed schools for nearly seven months because of COVID, it disrupted education for over 3.5 million learners. In our multi-phase study, we fill the gaps in understanding the impacts of these closures on students and the education sector broadly. In the first part of the study, we descr...
Blog Post
June 07, 2023
Humanitarian crises are increasingly protracted and complex, lacking clear solutions and paths to reach the most-affected individuals and communities. Implementers need to constantly reflect on what is and what is not working within, and adapt accordingly. Our Re:Build project has been attempting t...