Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency

This best practice brief presents Component 6 of the Data-to-Deal (D2D) framework, which addresses how to strengthen the enabling environment for investment. This component focuses on the coherent policy, regulatory, and institutional reforms needed to reduce risk, create clear routes to market, and build investor confidence in clean energy and sustainable transport systems. Stable legal frameworks, predictable pricing and incentive structures, and transparent procurement processes are essential to mobilise capital at scale. Component 6 on successful enabling environments comprises three sub-components: (i) operationalising cross-cutting enablers; (ii) identifying and designing policy reforms; and (iii) developing an implementation plan to prioritise and sequence reforms. These sub-components are embedded across the D2D pipeline, linking political commitment, technical planning, and finance mobilisation into a coherent reform agenda. The brief draws on case studies from Zambia, South Africa, and the UK to illustrate how targeted reforms can expand renewable energy, reduce costs, and create investor-ready markets, while also highlighting the role of domestic capital market reforms in unlocking long-term sustainable financing. By operationalising this approach, countries can develop integrated, context-specific reform packages that advance development priorities, meet climate commitments, and strengthen resilience.

ABSTRACT Responsible internationalization is a term increasingly used to promote relationship building in a world shaped by the growing impact of global challenges and geopolitical competition. In these changing global conditions, researchers and universities have learned that they need to adhere to an expanded set of research norms. Today these norms include aspects well known to researchers, such as research integrity, academic freedom, openness, research excellence, and research ethics, but also newer aspects related to societal impact, research security, and science diplomacy. However, managing these aspects is complicated by the fact that they are quite contradictory in tandem. Hence the term responsible internationalization has been used to raise awareness of the changing conditions for academic research and induce more responsible research practices. Nonetheless, the term presently lacks systemization and agreed definitions driving clear narratives, well-articulated goals, or structured responses and behavioral changes. This paper seeks to clarify some of the underlying premises and strategies in working with responsible internationalization and a way forward to the development of clearer guidelines.

More than 40 agencies that fund health research capacity strengthening in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) participate in the ESSENCE Health Research initiative, which has established a mechanism for reviewing and coordinating their funding. Taken together, the expected outcomes of implementation of the review mechanism are increases in the efficiency and equity in health research capacity strengthening activities with decreased duplication of efforts. The overall goal is increased support of research on national health priorities as well as improved pandemic preparedness in LMICs, and, eventually, fewer countries with very limited research capacity.

The dengue viruses, enveloped positive-sense RNA viruses with a genome of approximately 11 kb, and consisting of four related but anti genetically distinct serotypes, cause the most common arthropod-borne viral disease in man. In most cases, dengue virus infection is asymptomatic, but can potentially cause an acute febrile disease ranging in severity from classical dengue fever to a life-threatening hemorrhagic condition with shock syndrome. Its mode of transmission is by the mosquito species Aedes aegypti and Aedesalbopictus, both species notoriously known as intermittent feeders of human blood, and with ecological niches well-adapted to human habitation [2]. It has been assumed for many years that there are approximately one hundred million dengue infections per year, but recent estimate indicates 390 million per year, of which 96 million manifests clinically [3]. Still, there are no anti-viral drugs against dengue disease, and neither prophylaxis nor vaccines exist. An effective dengue virus vaccine would need to provide a balanced immune response against all four serotypes. This has proven difficult to achieve despite considerable efforts. A number of dengue vaccines candidates are in pipeline, but it remains to be seen when there will be a well-tolerated and effective vaccine licensed and available on the market [2].

Enabling Dynamic Partnerships through Joint Degrees between Low- and High-Income Countries for Capacity Development in Global Health Research : Experience from the Karolinska Institutet/Makerere University Partnership

A Secretaria Estadual de Saúde do Rio Grande do Sul iniciou, em 2001, um sistema de vigilância epidemiológica de caráter sentinela para acidentes e violências em serviços com urgência e emergência. Para realizar as notificações criou o Relatório Individual de Notificação de Acidentes e Violências (Rinav), que, em 2006, foi estendido a todos os serviços de saúde e faixas etárias do ciclo de vida e teve como municípios pioneiros Caxias do Sul e Guaíba. Esta pesquisa se propôs a identificar o processo de notificação dos acidentes e violências com idosos e a articulação da rede de serviços em Guaíba (RS) para qualificar o atendimento e prevenir as diferentes expressões de acidentes e violência. Para a coleta de dados, utilizaram-se entrevista, questionário e grupo focal, que permitiram identificar as características sociodemográficas dos sujeitos, os fatores de risco e proteção para acidentes e violências e os entraves/possibilidades da rede de apoio.

The 2007 general elections in Sierra Leone marked a decisive moment in the country's post-war recovery. In this article we show how political parties strategically remobilized ex-combatants into 's ...

challenge is to transform complex data into policy-relevant information, to build tools and systems for analysis and integration, and to support the needs of nations and the international community as they engage in joint programmes of action. UNEP-