Ending Global Poverty: Four Women's Noble Conspiracy tells the story of Eveline Herfkens from the Netherlands, Hilde F. Johnson from Norway, Clare Short from the United Kingdom, and Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul from Germany who twenty years ago joined forces to promote global policies to end...
One of the most-discussed digital financial inclusion projects, M-Pesa facilitates the transfer of money and access to formal financial services via the mobile phone infrastructure and has grown at a phenomenal rate since its launch in...
Our shared future in the wake of a global pandemic: Impact on economic, social and environmental divides Thursday, May 28th 2020 - Time: 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM (PT) / 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM (GMT) The coronavirus pandemic affects us all. We fully expect it to have a much wider and deeper impact on...
This webinar will explore how mobile phone-based services can promote better Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) practices. The lead researchers from the evaluation team will present findings and lessons learned from the recently completed mHealth evaluation in Tanzania. Watch the...
At a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has raised issues of welfare regimes higher up the global agenda, author Ferdinand Eibl discusses his book, Social Dictatorships: The Political Economy of the Welfare State in the Middle East and North Africa. Using mixed methods of study, the book presents...
The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) is geared towards improving governance in the oil, gas and minerals sector. The EITI currently includes 53 countries across the world, half of which are in Africa. It is governed by multi-stakeholder coalitions representing business,...
This webinar will explore how mobile phone-based services can facilitate agriculture and nutrition behaviour change. The lead researchers from the ‘External evaluation of mobile phone technology based nutrition and agriculture advisory services in Africa (mNutrition)’ project will present...
Pandemics, economic crises, climate collapse – these all pose existential questions about intellectual communities. What is our purpose, and how will we endure? If we are to survive, we must learn from the experiences of African intellectual communities, who have faced down structural...
As the world grapples with the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, vulnerable workers in the informal sector in the global south have been hit hard. As vendors working in close quarters and or as frontline care-workers in households, many are particularly vulnerable to contracting the...
The global pandemic Covid-19 is impacting people in many and varied ways. The effects on all our lives are immense and diverse, from rural and urban communities, young and old, from different geographic and economic groups, we are each living with different realities of a global...
Evidence into Policy and Practice Seminars
Donors’ approaches to engaging evidence with policy and practice and evaluating its impact, constantly evolve. Their investments have ranged from funding international knowledge programmes, to support for project embedded research communications, to building research capacity and...
Water is crucial to sustain life, food, ecosystems, human health and wellbeing. Still, millions of poor and marginalised women and men around the world face challenges in accessing water due to a range of ecological, socio-political, institutional and economic...
