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New year, new home

Posted by: Baroness Lindsay Northover, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for International Development, Posted on: 28 January 2015 - Categories: Africa, Humanitarian

For many of us, the New Year may mean resolutions vaguely made and probably never kept. They usually concern less than fundamental things. But for the people of Darfur, caught up in a now largely forgotten conflict, 2015 has so far …

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World Humanitarian Day in South Sudan

Posted by: Henry Donati, Programme Manager, Humanitarian Response Group, Posted on: 19 August 2014 - Categories: Africa, Humanitarian
Delivering aid to Akobo. Picture: Henry Donati/DFID

The helicopter banks down steeply to the left, and we’re approaching Akobo town; the miles of flat scrub land and acacia trees have given way to a scattering of huts and one-story, corrugated iron-roofed brick buildings. We hover over a …

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Forecasting Development

Posted by: Hannah Ryder, Team Leader for Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation, Posted on: 3 February 2014 - Categories: Other

In January, I always enjoy reading the Economist's World In Year X publication – which sets out their forecasts for big headlines under a number of categories. What I particularly like is their review of how correct their forecasts were …

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“There are more questions than answers”

Posted by: Bill, Head of Governance Group in DFID Pakistan, Posted on: 28 November 2013 - Categories: Governance, Humanitarian, Pakistan

Those of a certain vintage might recognise the title of a Johnny Nash single from 1972.  The lyric goes on "And the more I find out the less I know". I sympathise with the sentiment. I arrived in the Pakistan …

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Sexual violence in conflict

Posted by: Zainab Bangura, United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Posted on: 12 November 2013 - Categories: Development Debates, Girls & Women, Humanitarian

...where they hide in shame for what has happened to them. The effect and use of sexual violence in each country is unique. In Syria, the threat of sexual violence...

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The cost of conflict for women in DRC

Posted by: Sophie Tholstrup, Posted on: 25 November 2012 - Categories: Democratic Republic of Congo, Girls & Women, Humanitarian

Given current events in eastern DRC it seems strange to be writing about anything else. M23’s capture of Goma and ongoing push to the South has been widely covered in the international press (Reuters’ coverage has been particularly good). I …

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