Civil Society Partnership Review: weekly focus on effective knowledge and influence
How can donors and NGOs work together to build effective civil society.
Africa
We work around Africa to increase access to basic services, help after humanitarian emergencies and empower girls and women, ultimately helping people lift themselves out of poverty. In these blogs country teams discuss their work and progress towards these and other goals.
Digging into the detail of farming
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Vel Gnanendran, Head of #DFIDTanzania, Posted on:
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Africa, Economic Development, Tanzania
Next month, world leaders will come together at the United Nations to adopt a set of Sustainable Development Goals for the post-2015 era. One of the targets under this framework may well be to double agricultural productivity and incomes for …
Civil Society Partnership Review: weekly focus on effective civil society
Following on from last week’s blog, we want to hear from you on the first line of enquiry as part of the Civil Society Partnership Review. This week we’re focusing on the effective civil society strand. This focuses on two …
One year on from the Girl Summit: are we any closer to ending child marriage?
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Lakshmi Sundaram, Executive Director Girls Not Brides, Posted on:
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Africa, Asia, Development Debates, Girls & Women, Other
Working on a taboo subject can be isolating and demoralising and, as evidenced by the experience of some Girls Not Brides members focused on ending child marriage within their communities, even life-threatening. Until a few years ago, child marriage was such …
The education glass is half full
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Julia Gillard, Former Prime Minister of Australia, Posted on:
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Africa, Development Debates, Education, Other
2015 is a year of decision for global education — specifically, access to quality education by children in the world’s poorest and most conflict-ravaged countries. Fifteen years ago, at the United Nations, the world came together to establish the Millennium Development …
Spinning Wheels on the Road to Shabunda
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Chris Pycroft, Head of Office, DFID DRC, Posted on:
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Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Infrastructure
It had rained solidly all night, and was still raining at 6:30 as we assembled at the Pakistani Company Operating Base outside Walungu to assess whether the road trip was possible. The Burhale to Shabunda road in South Kivu is …
Seeking the Holy Grail of quality education
Education partnerships, and how to evolve and improve them, is one of the hot topics at the 2015 World Education Forum in Korea, where the mixed progress on the 2000 Education For All and Education Millennium Development Goals are …
The women of Mphangwe
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Baroness Lindsay Northover, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for International Development, Posted on:
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Africa, Girls & Women, Tanzania
This is the second of Baroness Northover’s blogs from Tanzania, where the theme of her visit is ‘leave no one behind’. In her previous blog she focused on disability, and today on women and girls. We have come up to …
How is Ebola affecting FGM in Sierra Leone?
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Alimatu Dimonekene, Community Activist and founder of ProjectACEi, Posted on:
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Africa, Development Debates, Female Genital Mutilation, Girls & Women, Health, Humanitarian, Other
The practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) in Sierra Leone is shrouded in great secrecy and mysticism. It usually takes the form of removal of the clitoris, sometimes using razor blades, penknives and even broken glass. It is at the …
Girls can drive development
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Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, UN Undersecretary-General and Executive Director of UNFPA, Posted on:
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Africa, Development Debates, Girls & Women
Adolescent girls can play an enormous role in bringing about sustainable development. But for too long their rights and potential have been overlooked by world leaders, and this has held back development and equality. At last international momentum is building …
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