Themes: Policy Development & Advocacy

With growing awareness about the role of social and solidarity economy in facilitating inclusive and sustainable development, comes an increasing number of governments, both at national and subnational levels, adopting…

Peter A. Victor, author of Managing without Growth. Slower by Design, not Disaster, is a Professor Emeritus at York University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from UBC in 1971…

Women in Canada have been disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic to an extent that threatens to roll back equality gains. Economic losses have fallen heavily on women and most…

In light of the growing urgency for, and national commitment to a de‐carbonised economy combined with the need for local economic drivers and community resiliency, community energy offers a win‐win‐win…

In January of 2019, the Canadian Community Economic Development Network (CCEDNet), and partners commissioned a small project focusing on the emergent Federal Social Finance Fund. This initiative was part of…

Winnipeg’s social enterprise community has spawned an exciting new book called The Beautiful Bailout: How Social Innovation Will Solve Government’s Priciest Problems. The book is penned by Shaun Loney, an…

The National Impact Investment Practitioners Table (NIIPT) is a pan-Canadian, mission-driven, multilingual, mutually supportive and practitioner-led community of practice. The NIIPT currently represents 7 provinces and 20 social finance funds…

On August 21, 2018, the Government of Canada released “Opportunity for All – Canada’s First Poverty Reduction Strategy.” In his letter of transmission to the Prime Minister, the Minister of…

The City of Vancouver prepares annual reports on development contributions – containing important details of what contributions were made and how they were allocated, enabling the public as well as…

This paper provides a legal overview and analysis of how community benefits and Community Benefits Agreements (CBAs) can be used in the Toronto land-use planning context. Community benefits help maximize…

This report examines the structure of Community Benefits Agreements and the process for developing them in Ontario. It describes leading examples, the current policy landscape, and related strategic considerations. Over the next…

The review carried out for the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 concludes that too much of the existing evidence base consists of descriptive case studies with insufficient material on outcomes…