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Blog author Selvi Manivanan Devandra, centre, at a Mahila Milan meeting planning for COVID-19 (Photo: copyright SPARC)

Guest blog by Selvi Manivanan Devandra

Responding to COVID-19 in a high-density low-income district in Mumbai

Selvi Manivanan Devandra is a community leader with Mahila Milan, a federation of women’s savings groups in Mumbai. In this blog she describes how the community is self-organising for an effective COVID-19 response.

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"Previously we were not involved with the central committee since we didn’t like the way they worked, and we worked to our own guidelines. But now with the challenge of COVID-19, we all agreed to come together and work for the people. "

– Selvi Manivanan Devandra

In March 2019, young people across South Africa joined marches to demand more action on climate change (Photo: Musa Binda, Groundup, CC BY-ND 4.0)

Blog by Tracy Kajumba

Empowering women and youth for transformative climate and environment justice

At the beginning of March, Tracy Kajumba was a panellist at the OECD Global Forum on Environment. Here she reflects further on how women and youth can be enabled to strengthen environmental justice.

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Farmers plant crops in a paddy field. The Nepal government is being urged to take measures to minimise both short-term and long-term damage to the country's agricultural sector (Photo: copyright Upendra Lamichhane)

Guest blog by Jagat Deuja

Curbing the impacts of COVID-19 on Nepal’s small-scale farmers and seizing opportunities for food system reform

Guest blogger Jagat Deuja puts forward practical measures for minimising damage to Nepal’s small-scale farming sector and ways to build resilient food systems in the longer term.

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Working paper, 42 pages

Shallow water shrimp fishery in Mozambique: who benefits from fiscal reform?

This study analyses current fiscal policies for sustainable and fair fisheries in Mozambique, focusing on shallow water shrimp fisheries (SWSF). In the SWSF, artisanal fishers are important not only economically but also socially. The working paper includes a series of policy recommendations linked to fiscal reforms to further support these efforts while furthering environmental goals.

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