This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Rising economic inequality within countries is a defining challenge of our time. A growing body of literature highlights the negative impacts of domestic inequality on a wide number of political,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. I am empowered. I am persevering. I am responsible. I have been involved with Mil Milagros for six years. And in those six years, I have learned to leave my…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The United Kingdom’s aid chief Penny Mordaunt offered more information about how the Department for International Development intends to tackle sexual exploitation and abuse within the sector, including a cross-government…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. AloWeather provides forecasts and advice to farmers in Vietnam through an SMS and voice messaging system. Making Treasure from Trash supports women in Ghana to create biogas and biofertilizer businesses. A-Card…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. 2017 will be remembered for extreme hurricanes, fires, and floods that pummeled communities coast-to-coast. These record-breaking events also made 2017 the costliest disaster year in U.S. history. Even places, both in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As we learned from the Devex #aidtoo campaign, workplace sexual misconduct in global development is much more common that we think — 86 percent of aid workers report knowing a colleague who has experienced…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 2015, global leaders signed up to the most ambitious development agenda the world has ever seen, agreeing to 17 sustainable development goals. The pledge was to “leave no one…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s hard to overstate the impact mobile technology has on global development efforts. The spread of mobile cellular and data networks, coupled with the falling cost of mobile phones and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Our most revered institutions hold themselves to an ethical standard that does not allow accepting money from wealthy drug dealers – however tempting the prospect or worthwhile the project. They…
In 2006, the slogan #MeToo started as a movement by American activist Tarana Burke as a way to show solidarity with victims of sexual assault. That slogan went viral overnight…
U.N. member states are now more than halfway through a two-year process of developing a new Global Compact for Refugees (CGR)—one that is designed to improve responses to displacement by…
There have been four cases of sexual harassment reported in the World Health Organization in 2016, according to an internal audit report presented to the World Health Assembly in May 2017. At a time…