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 reasons. The focus of this...
6 March 2020
6 March 2020
This year in Mexico, International Women’s Day will be marked not by celebration but by mourning and a national protest against the recent spike in femicides. So why has a day that is typically about celebration been deemed, by national consensus, a day of protest? There is a message to...
6 March 2020
6 March 2020
In the past decade we’ve seen some significant steps forward in the fight for women’s rights and gender equality, from the #MeToo movement that has emboldened more women to speak out against misogynistic abuse, to new domestic violence laws passed to protect women in India and Bangladesh....
6 March 2020
In development, initiatives are often implemented with the underlying question of how it can be adapted and replicated. The pilot’s (un)successful factors are precious lessons to feed into new iterations, inspiring a recipe for others to follow. But even if the recipe emphasises the importance...
2 March 2020
2 March 2020
28 February 2020
I recently had the pleasure of talking with Martin Burt during the launch of his book Who Owns Poverty at IDS. The book describes a new social innovation tool ‘the Poverty Stoplight’, developed by Martin and Fundacion Paraguaya, which has fast been gaining traction among the development...
28 February 2020
28 February 2020
27 February 2020
25 February 2020
