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On Saturday I was invited to speak to 40 girls from Samburu, a remote part of Kenya which forms one of the arid and semi- arid lands of the country. So I jumped at the chance. Kenyan girls are always …
As part of the first cohort of the DFID Entry Scheme for Advisers (DESA), Isabelle Abbott Pugh, James Hamilton-Harding and Clare McCrum gamely signed up to spend one year working in the UK and two years in an as-yet-to-be-determined overseas …
This week I will be going to the annual World Water Week in Stockholm – the theme this year is Water for Development. This event brings the world’s water community together to debate the big issues facing water and sanitation …
The Review, looking at how we will define our future objectives for working with Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), as well as associated approaches and instruments for our partnership model is gathering momentum. We’re now into week 3 of our engagement …
We all too often see in the media, news concerning large scale humanitarian disasters, like the earthquake in Nepal or Typhoon Haiyan in The Philippines. It is right that there is a focus on responding to the humanitarian need of …
Yemen. Gaza. Iraq. Ukraine. And looking back a little further: South Sudan. Syria. Central African Republic. We are in a world where huge catastrophes have almost become commonplace. We see how eruptions of violence can bubble out of control and …
How can donors and NGOs work together to build effective civil society.
Romana was a young girl when her family told her she was getting married. This is not unusual in Bangladesh; according to UNICEF, nearly two-thirds of girls are married before the age of 18 and more than a quarter of …
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 …
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 …
