Al Etmanski received the Order of Canada for his remarkable leadership over 30 years of championing disability rights, including the design of the national Registered Disability Savings Plan. His next ambitious goal is to work with a committee of representatives from the disability community to design and institute a guaranteed income for persons with disabilities.…(Read more)
Writing in the Globe and Mail, Jim Leech and Sean Cleary of the Institute for Sustainable Finance at Queen’s University applaud the Canadian Securities Administrators proposal for new rules on climate disclosure for Canadian companies which align with most of the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). However, the authors argue…(Read more)
On December 1, 2021, the Canada Forum on Impact Investment and Development (CAFIID) launched its 2021 State of the Sector Report. Among other findings, the report found that Canadian impact investment assets in developing and emerging economies total $3.5 billion, a significant increase over the past three years. The report also examined diversity in the sector,…(Read more)
Dr. Paula Goldman, Chief Ethical and Humane Use Officer at Salesforce, has set out the company’s approach to intentional innovation that centres ethics and inclusion through a systematic process of listening to the perspectives of diverse stakeholders. “Today, disruption means something different than the utopianism of that earlier era — and it’s not always for…(Read more)
Kizzann Sammy, Senior Associate with Jackson and Associates and Principal of Kochi Consulting, was recently invited to present a paper to the UN Women Expert Group Meeting on the theme of achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in the context of climate change, environmental and disaster risk reduction policies and…(Read more)
In a guest blog for the International Institute for Sustainable Development, Jess Auerbach, an anthropology professor at North-West University in South Africa, argues that a new approach for researching and acting on climate change is essential – one that is open to and draws on new sources and forms of non-Western knowledge. She challenges her…(Read more)
Kwame Anthony Appiah’s long-read article in The Guardian examines the nature and costs of the pandemic in the Global South. Citing recent research, he notes that that “the direct health impact of Covid in these relatively youthful countries was less than in richer (and, invariably, older) countries, but that economic vulnerability was decidedly greater. Households…(Read more)
Writing in The Next Billion, Carolina Robino and colleagues argue that social enterprises and impact investing can generate solutions to the crisis in care, a crucial area as the pandemic continues to undermine communities and economies. The authors also announce a new action research program of Canada’s International Development Research Centre and the Soros Economic…(Read more)
We join colleagues around the world in congratulating Budd Hall, recipient of the 2021 Hiram E. Fitzgerald Distinguished Engaged Scholar Award. A driving force for half a century in transformative scholarship and community-campus partnerships for a better world, Dr. Hall holds, with Dr. Rajesh Tandon, the UNESCO Chair in Community-Based Research and Social Responsibility in…(Read more)
Writing for the American Evaluation Association’s AEA 365 blog platform, Wanda Casillas, Sahiti Bhaskara, and Jack Serna argue that, among a range of challenges in truly diversifying the evaluation field, two issues must be addressed. “First is the challenge of cultural traditions among Western social scientists and researchers that do not accept or understand the value…(Read more)
