Opinion

Opinion

Common sense prevails and the anti-advocacy clause is dead – but the debate will continue

Academics, NGOs and civil society organisations welcomed the announcement last week by the Government of the new Government Grants Standards. The ‘anti-advocacy clause’ announced last February was roundly criticised for potentially gagging both scientists and charities.

James Georgalakis

6 December 2016

Opinion

Livelihoods on the edge: contested mangroves in Kachchh

There is a real buzz about Mundra village on the Gulf of Kachchh coast, one of the fastest growing industrial hubs in India. A sprawling port, two of India’s biggest thermal power plants, and a special economic zone with growing export industries jostle for space in what once used to be...

5 December 2016

Opinion

Integrated water resource management: panacea or problem?

Integrated water resource management (IWRM) became the buzzword for water resources policy gurus in the 1990s. The donors poured millions into projects, plans, programmes and many, many workshops and consultancy exercises.

Ian Scoones

5 December 2016

Opinion

Tough Shit: What’s the link between diarrhoea and bonded labour?

When we think of bonded labour we don’t instantly think of diarrhoea, but our research in India and Nepal, suggests that diarrhoea and ill-health poverty, loans and bonded labour are all interlinked.

Danny Burns

Pauline Oosterhoff

2 December 2016

Opinion

The revolutionary demand of a global transformation based on joy

The AWID forum became a huge tribute to diversity, in a celebration that shows how humans can live in equity, stimulating and enhancing the different things that each person brings to the whole.

Kemly Camacho Jiménez

Carol Smithyes

1 December 2016

Development Frames

Great Achievements

Second runner up ‘Why on earth did I agree to do this?’ Angela asked herself. She looked at the other people sitting with her on the podium. There were four other speakers - three men and a woman. She knew and respected them all. They were hard-working, committed people, who...

Diana Conyers

1 December 2016

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The Interview

Second prize The villa stood at the end of a shabby street, where, along the street’s sides, crooked shanties cropped up like overgrown grass. The street was usually quiet, but there were times when it wasn’t. Like when the boys played cricket in the evenings, when the sun was starting to...

Madhushala Senaratne

1 December 2016

Development Frames

The Tourist

Third prize He’d been travelling for just over three months but this was his final destination before returning home. The thought made him nauseous. There was not much waiting for him there except the high expectations of parents which he had no idea how to meet. Join the family business, put...

James Georgalakis

1 December 2016

Development Frames

In Small Places

First runner up Dust in his eyes. Dirt under his nails. Debris in his hair. As the smoke rose and the ash settled, Amjad made the decision then and there that he had to get out. He had been sitting on the remains of a low wall, two blocks from where the maternity hospital was hit. Shrapnel had...

Stephen Thompson

1 December 2016

Development Frames

Choosing the Sea

First Prize By four o'clock, when I first left my room, my belly hurt a lot. In the living room as in the rest of the house, everything was in silence and the kitchen, which usually smelled like soup and burnt corn, was cold and dusty; the wind seeped through the open window and made the...

1 December 2016

Opinion

Can circular economy practices solve Singapore’s food waste challenge?

One of the sustainability issues that Singapore is set to tackle is food waste which accounts for 10 per cent of total waste generated. The government has set out national waste management strategies to work towards Singapore becoming a Zero Waste Nation.

Patrick Schröder

29 November 2016

Opinion

Is Brazil’s contribution to global development at stake?

The Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation is gathering in Nairobi this week. With its new government showing little interest in multilateralism and international development, is Brazil fading as a Southern power & engaged development actor?

Lídia Cabral

28 November 2016

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Common sense prevails and the anti-advocacy clause is dead – but the debate will continue

Livelihoods on the edge: contested mangroves in Kachchh

Integrated water resource management: panacea or problem?

Tough Shit: What’s the link between diarrhoea and bonded labour?

The revolutionary demand of a global transformation based on joy

Great Achievements

The Interview

The Tourist

In Small Places

Choosing the Sea

Can circular economy practices solve Singapore’s food waste challenge?

Is Brazil’s contribution to global development at stake?

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