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.
Youth engagement is key to advancing the SDGs, yet mechanisms to promote meaningful participation remain unclear in the Global South. This study finds that information framing—especially in digital formats—can boost youth involvement in policy debates, but effectiveness depends on institutional, individual, and contextual factors, requiring a multifaceted engagement approach.
Southern Voice recently gathered in New York with global colleagues for the United Nations’ Summit of the Future, which took [...]
Industrialisation is vital for economic growth in the Global South, yet it often worsens environmental harm. This article explores the tension through the lens of a ‘just transition’, recommending local job creation, green tech transfer, and global cooperation to support sustainable industrialisation while addressing climate and development goals.
This article explores health equity during crises in the Global South, drawing on cases from Nigeria, Nepal, and Brazil. It highlights how community-based approaches, adaptive systems, and culturally sensitive interventions—like mobile health and community health workers—can reduce disparities, strengthen resilience, and guide equitable health responses in crisis-affected settings.
This article examines how generative AI worsens information pollution, threatening political and health-related information integrity in India. It calls for stronger oversight, multi-stakeholder engagement, and intermediary accountability. Key recommendations include a Global South consortium and global collaboration on media literacy, prebunking, and fact-checking to combat misinformation effectively.
Southern Voice was part of the sixth T20 Task Force (TF06), which focuses on fostering robust international cooperation in [...]
Southern Voice is pleased to announce it has joined the "Fighting Food Crises along the Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP) Nexus Coalition." [...]
This synthesis paper brings together perspectives from across the Global South and North to explore the complexities and challenges of promoting equity in research. Findings reveal that while actors in the Global North—particularly research for development funders—most often focus on reshaping research partnerships and advancing equity as an end goal in itself, those in the Global South view equity as integral to broader systemic transformations within the development knowledge ecosystem.
This article is an expert commentary on the report Ed-tech in the Global South: Research Gaps and Opportunities.
