THE YEAR IN REVIEW 2021 - The IEJ has had another jam-packed year,

• Published policy briefs on a COVID-19 third wave • Supported Labour with research on the sector-specific relief package and the differentiated impact of the industrial masterplans, including in agriculture pandemic and the vulnerabilities it has exacerbated and agro-processing; cannabis; ocean economies; for workers, businesses, women, and children. [...] FEMINIST ECONOMICS HIGHLIGHTS FROM 2021 OPPORTUNITIES FOR 2022 • Published the Feminist Proposals on Macroeconomic • The second Feminist Economics Summer School will Policies needed for a COVID-19 Economic Recovery be held in 2022 under the theme Care and Economic Policy Brief in partnership with the Nawi Collective Crisis: History, Theory, and Methodology in Feminist and the Gender and Developmen. [...] Policy Brief in partnership with the Nawi Collective • Made a pre-budget submission to National Treasury on and the Gender and Development Network the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) • Developed a Climate Justice Macroeconomic and a subsequent op-ed. [...] #BigQuestionsForUBIG, in collaboration with • Secured a meeting with the President, together PayTheGrants and with the support of the Department with our civil society allies, to discuss extension of Social Development, dealing with financing, design, and improvement of the Covid Grant in 2022; and impact, and navigating towards a UBIG. [...] – for the improvement and extension of the • Co-convening of a public conference or symposium on COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant and the the UBIG.