Policy Work [under contruction]
Policy Work [under contruction]
An important part of my work has always been working with policy makers in developing countries and staff of international organizations to improve public policies or produce knowledge that can be useful for improving peoples lives. This work involves translating the academic knowledge to the policy environment, developing capacity-building actions, and promoting the evidence-based culture in policy spaces.
Ongoing Projects
Currently, I am co-leading the Equality Theme at UNU-WIDER with more important roles on two specific projects:
Inequality Over the Life Course
Climate Change, Poverty and inequality: impacts and resilience strategies
In addition, I am the core researcher in the project Strengthening safety nets in post-conflict and humanitarian contexts. Finally, I participated in the SOUTHMOD project, which supported the Tax and Benefit Microsimulation Model for developing countries. I was the focal point for the project in Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zanzibar.
In those projects, I develop projects and activities with many organizations such as Unicef - Zambia, ILO - Zambia and Mozambique, Ministry of Economic and Finance - Moz, Zipar - Zambia, Ministry of Community Development - Zambia, Ministry of Education - Zambia, Ministry of Community Development - Zambia, University of Dar es Salaam, University Eduardo Mondlane.
Affirmative Action. In Brazil, I have been developing a project named UFBA em Dados, which aims to organize administrative data for the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) and produce research outputs that enable the university to improve its academic practices. This project produced many published papers, undergrad monographs, and master dissertations. Ongoing work on affirmative action and role models is being developed with the data at the moment.
Selected non-academic writing and policy activities:
REPORTS:
The next three publications are outputs of one project financed by the IFAD-Brazil in which I was the Principal Investigator:
Policy Brief:
BLOG:
Project Syndicate: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/reforming-african-tax-and-social-protection-systems-after-covid19-by-jesse-lastunen-1-et-al-2021-12
The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/efforts-to-protect-the-poor-during-covid-how-five-african-countries-fared-171131
TRAININGS:
MOZMOD retreat 2021
Policy Briefs as outputs of the first MOZMOD retreat:
Policy Briefs as outputs of the first MOZMOD retreat: Expansion of PSSB
MOZMOD retreat 2023
Policy Briefs as outputs of the first MOZMOD retreat: TBA (Minimum Wage policy in Mozambique)
TAZMOD training 2021
Policy Briefs as outputs of the first TAZMOD retreat: Cash Transfer for Orphans (TBA)
TAZMOD retreat 2023
Introduction to concepts of impact evaluation with a focus on cash transfer policies. Target audience: government officials from different Ministries of Mozambique.