This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After the deadly shooting this week in Parkland, Florida — as well as recent shootings in Orlando, Las Vegas, Nevada, and beyond — discouraged people have taken to social media to express their outrage and grief…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Rajiv J Shah, the Indian- American president of the Rockefeller Foundation, will visit India from February 12 to 15 as part of the US-based philanthropic organization’s efforts to help the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In their opening statements, Ms. Fore and Ambassador Hattrem both recognized the leadership of their respective predecessors, underscoring the significance of UNICEF’s work and the immense challenges facing children around…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Ortensia Ipuana wakes up every morning in her dusty shack with her children and grandchildren and heads to El Basurero, a sprawling, stinking garbage dump on the outskirts of Uribia,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As external financing conditions are expected to worsen in the medium term, the African continent needs to focus on domestic resource mobilization in order to meet development goals, according to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID) needs to do better at ensuring women and marginalized groups are benefitting from the economic development programs it supports in Africa, according to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Activists are once again looking to Unilever, a major investor in Myanmar, to take a stand against the country’s persecution of the Rohingya minority. Last week, a global civil society…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over the last several months, ActionAid Uganda has endured attacks by external forces aimed at halting operations and undermining work in communities across the country. What began as a siege on our…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Young people must be involved at all levels of policy-making and in all processes that affect them, including in the design of national plans, according to a summary statement issued…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In Angus Deaton’s January 24 New York Times op-ed, The U.S. Can No Longer Hide From Its Deep Poverty Problem, the Nobel Prize winning economist rightly pointed to the scourge of absolute poverty…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Civil society groups have reacted with dismay after the United Kingdom made an early but lower-than-expected pledge to replenish the Global Partnership for Education, sparking some fears the multilateral fund…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Tim Brown, chief executive officer of the human-centered design firm IDEO, is one of those people whose attempts to get from meeting to meeting are often interrupted by those seeking his…