As global warming nears critical tipping points, locally led climate action is essential for equitable and effective solutions. This policy brief explores barriers, enablers and scaling strategies, highlighting the need for community co-creation, flexible funding, private-sector incentives, multilevel coordination and just international partnerships to sustain impactful climate initiatives.
Southern Voice has launched the Resilience and Sustainability Self-Assessment Tool under its Strengthening Think Tanks Project. Designed for think tanks in the Global South, the tool helps organisations assess resilience, sustainability, and policy influence across six core pillars, strengthening institutional performance and advancing more inclusive research systems.
In October 2025, Southern Voice convened its global network in São Paulo to reimagine the global development architecture. At a critical moment for the SDGs, the conference created space to address power asymmetries, strengthen Global South perspectives, and advance more representative and effective multilateral decision-making.
As we conclude a momentous year, we reflect on the strength of this community and our shared progress. Guided by our strategic implementation plan, we advanced global debates, tackled knowledge asymmetries, and reached new milestones through initiatives like the Challenge Fund for Evidence Use and our 2025 Conference.
Through our network, Southern Voice had a strong presence at COP30 in Brazil this month. Representatives from SDPI (Pakistan), [...]
As 2025 draws to a close, the following reviews some key moments in a year of collective action to [...]
Southern Voice is proud to be a partner in a new project awarded funding through the British Academy's Evidence-Informed [...]
The SDG financing gap has surged to $4 trillion annually, posing urgent challenges for the Global South. Ahead of the FfD4 conference, Southern Voice and its partners outline key priorities—debt sustainability, climate finance, taxation, and more—to reshape global financial systems and support inclusive, sustainable development. Join us in Seville.
The fourth session of the inaugural SV Talks series invites participants to reconsider security through a broader and more integrated lens that recognises how governance gaps interact with digital vulnerabilities and with transnational crime.
The second session of the first edition of Southern Voice Talks explores the role of youth in shaping global development. Drawing on new research and insights from young thinkers and experts, the session highlights how to break barriers, strengthen participation, and create meaningful spaces for youth engagement in policy debates.
