Regions Refocus is building cross-regional, cross-movement solidarity in the struggle for progressive and feminist economic policy.

Post-Colonialisms Today

Policy research and advocacy on development policies and initiatives adopted, promoted, or formulated by governments and policy institutions across Africa in the immediate post-independence period.

Resistance Across Regions

Collating analysis of activists confronting the global authoritarian surge, this report compares right-wing regimes across contexts and the challenges of progressive and feminist movements, proposing strategies aimed at weaving together the threads of resistance.

Reimagining Regionalism

African and Caribbean activist-intellectuals present and discuss progressive and feminist policy proposals around trade, climate, change, fiscal governance, agriculture, and debt, emerging from three regional workshops in Addis Ababa, Kampala, and St. Augustine.

Monetary Policy for Development, During and Beyond Crisis

Africa, Arab States 2020-07-29

Unfinished Liberatory Agendas

Offering a feminist vision for reclaiming the developmental state, Akua Britwum and Amina Mama discuss the gender politics of post-independence leaders such as Nkrumah and Nyerere and outline the role of African women in anti-colonial struggles. See More

Africa 2020-12-10

Why Post-Colonialisms Today? Introduction to the Project

Africa, Arab States 2020-06-22

Regions Refocus 2020 Recap

Our events, resources, and news from a year of challenges and continued struggle. Read about our work with Post-Colonialisms Today, the Gender and Trade Coalition, interventions in multilateral spaces, and organizational growth. See More

Cross-Regional 2021-01-01

Post-Cotonou Agreement: Cross-Regional Perspectives and Resistance

Africa, Caribbean, Cross-Regional, Pacific 2020-06-23

Creating a Feminist Alliance for Trade Justice

Outlining why it's critical to push back against the neoliberal co-optation of women's rights, Gender and Trade Coalition members Regions Refocus, APWLD, and FEMNET share lessons from their work in the coalition. See More

Cross-Regional 2020-07-16

Africa

Topics: Agriculture, Extractives, Regional Integration, Trade, Post-Colonialisms Today project

Arab States

Topics: Social Policy, Trade, Post-Colonialisms Today project

Asia

Topics: Caste, Finance, Sexuality, Regional Integration

Caribbean

Topics: Climate, Debt, Finance, Trade

Cross-Regional

Latin America

Topics: Education, Finance

Pacific

Topics: Climate, Trade

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