Digital Knowledge Hub
Digital Knowledge Hub
Open research, policy roadmaps, advocacy resources, and governance tools for communities, researchers, and civic leaders.
About the Hub
Knowledge that drives action
The Digital Knowledge Hub makes SPES Institute's research and policy work openly accessible. These resources are designed to support evidence-based advocacy, policy literacy, youth co-governance, and institutional accountability. Whether you are a researcher, policymaker, civil society practitioner, or community leader, you will find tools here that are grounded in rigorous analysis and oriented toward real-world impact.
Evidence-Based Advocacy
Resources grounded in research and designed to support credible, effective advocacy
Policy Literacy
Accessible policy briefs and analyses that help practitioners and communities understand governance landscapes
Institutional Accountability
Tools and frameworks for holding institutions accountable for AI deployments and public decisions
Featured Resource
The Youth Co-Governance Toolkit: Formalizing Civic Policy Participation
A practical toolkit for youth organisations seeking to formalise their participation in civic policy processes. Covers frameworks for co-governance, tools for monitoring institutional decisions, and strategies for building sustained youth influence in public policy.
All resources
Budget Transparency in Healthcare: Navigating Public Allocations and Off-Budget Discrepancies
An analysis of budget transparency challenges in healthcare systems, examining how off-budget spending creates gaps in public accountability and what governance mechanisms can address them.
Bridging the Data Gap: Strategies for Timely, Disaggregated Health Metrics
A research report examining systemic gaps in health data collection and reporting particularly for disaggregated metrics and proposing strategies for improving the timeliness, granularity, and accessibility of health data for policy use.
Maternal Health Governance: A Comparative Analysis of Croatia and Ethiopia
A comparative study of maternal health governance frameworks in Croatia and Ethiopia, identifying lessons across two different health system contexts and proposing cross-applicable policy improvements.
The Youth Co-Governance Toolkit: Formalizing Civic Policy Participation
A practical toolkit for youth organisations seeking to formalise their participation in civic policy processes. Covers frameworks for co-governance, monitoring tools, and sustained youth influence strategies.
Policy Enforcement: Strengthening Maternal Death Review Committees
An examination of the role of Maternal Death Review Committees in healthcare accountability systems, with recommendations for strengthening their mandate, independence, and policy influence.
Bring this knowledge into action.
If you are working on advocacy, policy reform, or governance improvement and want to collaborate with SPES Institute — or commission new research — we want to hear from you.