Within the framework of a collaboration with the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD) and the Jesuit Justice and Ecology Network Africa (JENA), with the scientific contribution of Deloitte, have prepared the expository paper “Bridging the North-South Divide: A Shared Responsibility for Economic and Ecological Justice”, intended to...
As global leaders gather in Washington this week for the IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings, yesterday I had the opportunity to deliver a reflection on one of the defining moral issues of our time: debt justice.
By Charlie Chilufya, S.J Pretoria, 17 August 2024 - The recent adoption of the Draft Terms of Reference (ToR) for a United Nations Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation marks a pivotal moment in the global effort to establish a fair and inclusive international tax system. This decision, made by the Intergovernmental Committee on International Tax...
By Kevin Okoth Ouko-Research and Policy Analyst-JENA The global landscape is experiencing a compounding series of interconnected challenges that threaten global stability often referred as ‘polycrises’. Adam Tooze, an economic historian from Columbia University and contributing editor of Financial Times, introduced the term “polycrisis” to his readers in October 2022. He argued that with climate...
The Jesuit Justice and Ecology Network Africa (JENA) is a diverse community of faith-inspired Jesuit NGOs, also known as Social Centre’s, related Jesuit Institutions, individual Jesuit peace and development activists and scholars driven by a vision of a just, poverty-free, peaceful and ecologically regenerative Africa.
