Research and lessons

This learning pack brings together what we’ve learned together with our partners through the 2025 Development Evaluation (DE). It reflects on how change is taking shape across our shared work: what’s driving it, where challenges remain, and how we can keep learning together.

• Download the Laudes Foundation Learning Pack 2025 (PDF - 18.93 mb)

From January to February of 2025, the Centre for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) undertook the second survey of partners receiving funding from Laudes.

• Full PPR report 2025 (PDF - 1.37 mb)
• Management response PPR 2025 (PDF - 1.37 mb)
• PPR 2025 Key findings and recommendations (PDF - 1.37 mb)
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• Just Transition in Food: Executive Summary (PDF - 466 kb)
• Just Transition in Food - Full Report (PDF - 466 kb)

Narratives evidence board illustrating the impact of our funding choices up to 2024. 

• Narratives Evidence Boards (PDF - 32.56 mb)

Labour Rights evidence board illustrating the impact of our funding choices up to 2024. 

• Labour Rights Evidence Board (PDF - 34.20 mb)

Finance & Capital Markets evidence board illustrating the impact of our funding choices up to 2024. 

• Finance & Capital Markets Evidence Board (PDF - 33.96 mb)

Fashion evidence board illustrating the impact of our funding choices up to 2024. 

• Fashion Evidence Board (PDF - 33.73 mb)

Built Environment evidence board illustrating the impact of our funding choices up to 2024. 

• Built Environment Evidence Boards (PDF - 33.13 mb)

A study by Rezonanz, commissioned by Laudes Foundation, reveals how European pension funds are using "proxy voting" rights to influence corporate behaviour on environmental and social issues. 

• Download the full report (PDF - 2.97 mb)

ন্যায্য জলবায়ু রূপান্তর- বস্ত্র ও পোশাক এবং নির্মাণ শিল্পের সকল অংশীদারদের কার্যক্রম ত্বরান্বিতকরণ”- জলবায়ু পরিবর্তনের প্রভাব কমিয়ে, বাংলাদেশের উন্নয়নের গতিপথকে এগিয়ে নেওয়ার জন্য একটি পথ চিহ্নিত করে, যা শিল্প খাতের কার্বন নির্গমন কমানো,সেইসাথে শ্রমিকদের বিভিন্ন প্রতিকূলতাকে মোকাবিলা করার সক্ষমতা বৃদ্ধি করার প্রতি জোর দেয় | নীচের লিঙ্কে সংক্ষিপ্ত বিবরণ পড়ুন।

• বাংলাদেশে ন্যায্য জলবায়ু রূপান্তর: সংক্ষিপ্ত বিবরণ (PDF - 11.78 mb)

As the seventh most climate-vulnerable country, Bangladesh urgently needs to take adequate adaptation measures to mitigate risks of job losses, reduced competitiveness, and heightened vulnerability to climate shocks. The report, “Just Climate Transitions in Bangladesh - Accelerating Multistakeholder Action in Textile and Apparel and Construction Industries”, by mission-driven consulting firm FSG and commissioned by Laudes Foundation and H&M Foundation, identifies a pathway for Bangladesh to advance its development trajectory while reducing climate impacts by decarbonising industries as well as enhancing the resilience of workers and communities.

• Just Climate Transitions in Bangladesh Executive Summary (PDF - 11.69 mb)
• Just Climate Transitions in Bangladesh Full Report (PDF - 11.69 mb)

This report, led by the Autonomy Institute and funded by Laudes Foundation, aims to map a range of accountability tactics that have helped to create positive change across different industries on climate change and social inequality. An in-depth analysis of literature, case studies combined with the expert interviews formed a basis of suggesting the accountability tactics that would be most effective in supporting the transition of the built environment.

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