Behavioural insights should enhance energy efficiency interventions in informal settlements, where over two billion people will live by 2022. The…
Yet despite these benefits, informal settlement households – as so many others – have
Donors have committed in international forums in Paris (2005), Accra (2008), and
due to the political lead up to the Copenhagen Climate Conference in 2009, but have
The 2016 Conference on Earth System Governance (ESG) was a premiere. It was the first to convene in Africa. It was about time!
Many members of the ESG research community have long engaged in empirical research
Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) were born with a big bang at the UN climate negotiations in 2013. Friends and foes soon…
With only six months to ‘Paris’, only ten INDCs have been submitted so far.
Is biodiversity aid effective? Should there be more or less biodiversity aid available? What other actions should be taken, in parallel to…
Donor countries have repeated¬ly committed to increasing funds to support con¬servation
At a time of global economic crisis, donor agencies are under increasing pressure to provide evidence of the positive results of their work. This…
one-sided in its focus on providing accountability to taxpayers in donor countries, can have
For normative and empirical reasons, political conditionality in European foreign aid will remain high on the agenda. To make conditionality…
After all, even sound arguments in support of political conditionality have to address
hundreds of millions of people in Asia, Latin America and Africa whose incomes have
There is a great deal of potential for digital tools to help refugees, but there are still major economic and infrastructure hurdles before all…
developed based on the e-governance framework developed by Verdegem and Verleye, who have
