This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. To prepare for the rising temperatures, strengthening storms and higher sea levels in the coming decades, Fiji must spend an amount equivalent to its entire yearly gross domestic product over the next…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The current aid debate brings up questions that have not been given much attention outside of policy circles. What is the purpose of development aid, and has it changed over…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The 23rd Conference of the Parties, better known as COP23, is underway in the city of Bonn in Germany. Over the next two weeks, 23,000 delegates and 500 nongovernmental organizations…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Amid a global refugee crisis that’s seen more than 22.5 million people flee countries like Syria and South Sudan because of civil war and famine, southern Bangladesh is poised to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Trying to get global consensus on anything is nearly impossible. But in collaboration with a dynamic cohort of individuals and organizations, we’ve managed to develop a new manifesto with respect…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres moves to make good on a decades-old commitment of gender parity, some U.N. observers and staff representatives are questioning the way the potentially transformative, system-wide…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The highly emotive gender issue relating to the negative effects on the education of the girl child due to menstruation has captured the attention of the world. In an environment…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The World Food Programme, one of the first humanitarian organizations to explore the use of unmanned aerial vehicles back in 2007, hasn’t officially deployed any UAVs in responses this year.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. According to the Global Health Council: “Global health security means having strong public health and emergency responses in place around the world to stop the spread of infectious diseases across…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In today’s climate of shrinking budgets and dwindling international aid, development professionals around the globe are working to increase the effectiveness and sustainability of NGO-Local Government Collaboration. To achieve those…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The U.N. human rights office will tackle sexual harassment and establish a volunteer network of in-house “first responders” to address inappropriate conduct, heeding the U.N. secretary-general’s call that more be…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The #MeToo campaign has taken us toward reducing the stigma of sexual violence, which exists in all corners of the world. This includes the humanitarian community, where 86 percent of…