Likened to the Tower of Babel legend, the Mozambican national health system speaks several languages and pursues a range of different interests, answering to a number of partners and other bilateral and multilateral actors who all have some kind of circumstantial and contextual interest.
15 November 2018
The latest IDS Bulletin ‘The Millennium Villages: Lessons on Evaluating Integrated Rural Development' brings together a series of reflections on integrated development and how best to know whether it works and why. It certainly doesn’t provide all the answers; rather it’s meant to...
14 November 2018
The election of Bolsonaro as President of Brazil, one of the biggest economies in the world, with 55 percent of the votes in the second round, has left me feeling disappointed, sad, and deeply concerned about the human rights of many people. Like many others in Brazil and from around the...
13 November 2018
12 November 2018
Religious inequalities is a term that refers to the way in which individuals and groups suffer from systemic marginalization, exclusion and, in extreme cases, genocide on account of their religious beliefs and affiliation. When it comes to being committed to challenging power relations of...
9 November 2018
8 November 2018
Value for Money (VfM) has been a hot topic in the international development arena since it emerged in 2010, championed by the Department for International Development (DFID) as a mechanism to increase transparency around aid spending and promote stronger accountability to the tax paying public....
8 November 2018
Zoonotic diseases, those passed from animals to people, are distinguished from many others not only by their transmission route but also by virtue of the multi-faceted policy challenges they represent. Diseases might originate from one species (and sector) and affect another, and they might...
5 November 2018
More than half of the world’s 21 million refugees and 40 million internally displaced people (IDPs) are estimated to live in urban areas, while displacement resulting from conflict is now estimated to last around 26 years on average – hence the term ‘urban protracted displacement’. With...
5 November 2018
The World Health Organization (WHO) is holding its first global conference on the link between air pollution and health, the first ever global conference on the topic, aiming to find a solution to prevent the seven million deaths caused by air pollution every year. Several studies have...
31 October 2018
Ending hunger and securing food for all is one of the crucial United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). But food security entails sustainable and sufficient production, equitable distribution and efficient consumption of nutritious food. This implies that a flourishing agriculture...
30 October 2018
30 October 2018
