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Alex Ezeh, Drexel University Some relatively simple future scenarios for sub-Saharan Africa have been modelled to consider how various family planning-related investments might affect population growth. I think about the future of my continent in terms of three questions: Are Africans healthy? Do th

Education , Gender , Health , Opinions , Sanitation , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 07/15/2018

Breaking menstruation taboo: Nepal

Cecial Adhikari Menstruation Hygiene Day 2018 was celebrated with tag line #nomorelimits. This illustrated no limitations or restrictions during menstruation including everyone, everywhere. Nepal marked the day with a slogan – ‘Enough is enough, let’s break the limit of menstruation’. We are

Aid , Featured , Gender , Human Rights , Migration , Sustainable Development / 07/02/2018

In disasters, violence against women is the huge, often hidden story

Sharman Stone Of the nearly 700,000 Rohingya refugees that have crossed into Bangladesh since August 2017, well over half are women and girls, and many, have reported grave human rights abuses. After her son’s murder, Miriam* finally fled her village in Myanmar’s conflict-ravaged Rakhine State.

Gender , Health , Human Rights , Sustainable Development / 06/06/2018

What About the Boys?

Ishrat Jahan To put solutions into context, interventions require deeper understanding of the lives of adolescent boys in the urban slums of Bangladesh Rojib works as a human haulier driver in Dhaka and is the sole breadwinner for a family of four, including his newly wedded wife. His day starts at

Aid , Corruption , Gender , Governance , Human Rights , Opinions , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 05/11/2018

Development workers behaving badly

Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt Is it really the much-awaited #MeToo or #TimesUp moment of the development industry? Now that the waves of reactions and counter-reactions have subsided, I ask if it is possible to rethink the infamous ‘Oxfam incident’. To put it briefly, the charity’s high-level profession

Corruption , Featured , Gender , Human Rights , SDGs , Sustainable Development , Videos / 05/09/2018

ENOUGH | The Empowered Women of Korogocho

Brent Foster Beatrice Nyariara lives in Korogocho. It’s widely considered to be Nairobi’s most dangerous slum. More than 150,000 people are packed into the shanty town which is less than two square kilometers. Crime is high. Gangs are active. Addiction is rampant. A while back, men in he

Gender , Health , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 04/12/2018

New guidances to promote breastfeeding in health facilities issues by WHO and UNICEF

WHO and UNICEF issued new ten-step guidance to increase support for breastfeeding in health facilities globally that provide maternity and newborn services. Breastfeeding all babies for the first 2 years would save the lives of more than 820 000 children under age 5 annually. The Ten Steps to Succes

Featured , Gender , Health , Human Rights , Sustainable Development / 04/02/2018

Masculinity in the Message: Can Understanding Masculinity Improve Gender Intervention?

Ishrat Jahan While program interventions and research initiatives have addressed the debilitating impact on women in urban slums, they have only recently taken into consideration the various issues of health and rights of adolescent boys and young men. In the urban slums of Bangladesh, the lives of

Aid , Gender , Governance , Monitoring , Sustainable Development / 03/20/2018

Gender audits – from paper to practice

Alice Ridge and Juliet Hunt The point at which gender audit findings get translated into practice – is the subject of this qualitative research, recently presented at Devpolicy’s Australasian Aid Conference. Over the past few years, ACFID and our members have been at looking at how gender audi

Biodiversity , Environment , Gender , Water / 02/19/2018

Walking across India as a Woman – Moving Upstream

Nupur Agarwal This is a guest blog by Nupur Agarwal. She had joined our Moving Upstream project and walked with us for almost 400 kms from Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh to Gangotri, Uttarakhand along the Ganga as we documented the river. This article was first published in Veditum and has been republish

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