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.

Biden and Economic Imperialism

Cross-Regional 12 May, 2021

Regions Refocus Autumn 2021 Update

Updates on our policy advocacy work at UNCTAD XV, including feminist interventions at the Gender and Development Forum, and new resources from Post-Colonialisms Today on food self-sufficiency and policies for natural resource sovereignty. See More

Cross-Regional 2021-09-22

Why Post-Colonialisms Today? Introduction to the Project

Africa, Arab States 2020-06-22

COVAX Protects the Vaccine Apartheid Status Quo

The COVID-19 Global Access (COVAX) initiative is touted as a program for vaccine equality. But many of COVAX’s donors and architects are enmeshed in the global intellectual property regime fueling vaccine apartheid. By Aishu Balaji (Regions Refocus). See More

Cross-Regional 2021-05-09

Lessons from the Decolonization Era Toward Natural Resource Sovereignty

Africa, Arab States 18 November, 2020

Food and the struggle for Africa’s sovereignty

Detailing early post-independence clarity on the link between food self-sufficiency and national sovereignty offers lessons for contemporary efforts, Jihen Chandoul (Tunisian Observatory of Economy; Post-Colonialisms Today Working Group) critiques neoliberal notions of food security. See More

Africa, Arab States 2021-03-30

Africa

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

Arab States

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

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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