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#YouthForChange took place ahead of the Girl Summit 2014. The day brought together young people from around the world to ignite action on girls' rights. Nell Goddard - who is just beginning her second year studying Theology at Durham University …
Ahead of the Girl Summit, the UK government hosted #YouthForChange - an event developed by young people for young people to ignite action around girls’ rights and strengthen young people as leaders of the future. On the day, 16-year-old Grace …
It feels like a lifetime since I was sitting in my kitchen in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, reflecting on my week as an International Citizen Service (ICS) volunteer, and trying to sum it up in under a 1000 words for my …
I first met Pabitra Damai at the village development office in Banke, West Nepal, where she had walked for 4 hours to open a bank account so that she could withdraw her monthly social security allowance of Rs. 500 ($ …
Last week, we announced a strategic partnership with Avanti Communications, to implement a project in Kenya as part of the Girls' Education Challenge (GEC). The flagship Girls' Education Challenge is supporting up to 1 million of the world's poorest girls …
I recently joined DFID Afghanistan as the Private Sector Development Programme Manager, and my first "trip out" was to a programme I manage called Zardozi. It was already warm at 7:30am as I set off to meet 3 women - …
When the Girl Summit is held in the UK in July, one of the key messages will be the role of education in transforming the lives of girls. Education enables girls to participate more fully in their communities and their …
That’s the idea that grips our imagination and takes us and many others to the Open Knowledge Festival in Berlin this week. Browse through the Programme and you'll see why it's going to be a couple of days packed with …
What do we mean when we say we are creating jobs in developing countries? That's not as easy to answer as it might first appear. For a start, few people in developing countries are ‘unemployed’ as we might use the …
May for me, as Head of DFID Kenya, was a month of stark opposites. Highs and lows, achievements and failings, celebrations and disappointments. To explain, the government of Kenya released a report called a 'A Price Too High to Bear', …
