Participation in Economic Advancement Collection: Recent submissions

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    • PUMA: Solidarity Economy in Pumarejo, Spain 

      Cannon, Mariah; Thorpe, Jodie; Emili, Silvia (IDS, 2019-06)
      The Community Exchange Scheme in the Pumarejo neighbourhood of Seville is one of many examples of solidarity economies rooted in alternative forms of exchange. Based on an alternative social currency, the Puma, the scheme ...

    • Linking Participation and Economic Advancement: Buen Vivir Fund Case Study 

      Higdon, Grace Lyn (IDS, 2019-06-14)
      The Buen Vivir Fund is a participatory impact investment fund operating internationally. It was founded in 2018 by Thousand Currents, a non-governmental organisation, following a co-design process to conceptualise the Fund, ...

    • Linking Participation and Economic Advancement. Ghana Civil Society Platform on the IMF Programme: Case Study 

      Aloryito, Godson Korbla (IDS, 2019-06-14)
      Eleven Accra-based civil society organisations (CSOs) working on social accountability, anti-corruption and governance joined forces in November 2014 to influence the design, implementation and monitoring of the International ...

    • Deepening Impact through a Participatory Due Diligence Process 

      O'Flynn, Peter; Higdon, Grace Lyn; Besamusca, Daan; Shetty, Anuradha (IDS, 2019-06-14)
      Impact investing can create a disconnect between the needs of the people that an investment means to serve and the intentions of the investor. Based on work carried out in partnership with the Impact Investment team at the ...

    • Linking Participation with Economic Advancement: PEKKA Case Study 

      Quak, Evert-jan (IDS, 2019-06-14)
      Grass-roots member-owned cooperatives for female heads of households in rural Indonesia (PEKKA) empower the women members through three economic activities: community-based microfinance through savings and borrowing; a ...