The largest ever generation of girls are entering a critical time in their education as they move into adolescence. Challenges in managing their reproductive health, however, can pose significant barriers to educational attainment. This limits girls’ social and economic prospects and perpetuates...
Over time, as each new major humanitarian challenge has presented itself, humanitarian leaders have found ways to adapt and renew the humanitarian enterprise in response. The challenges the humanitarian system faces today require a similar renewal. And we need a new generation of leaders to lead...
This post, the first in a three-part series, presents excerpts from a lecture given by Andebrhan Welde Giorgis at the Development Policy Centre in April 2017, entitled “Democracy in Africa: Past, Present and Future”. Download the full lecture here, or listen to the podcast here. The end of colonial...
Ever worked on a program in which miscommunications between the donor and the implementing team were costly? In time and money? In development, a lot of thinking goes into the size, shape, focus and aims of programs of support. Yet there is much less consideration of the skills of the people who...
Messaging apps – such as WhatsApp, Viber and Facebook Messenger – are becoming the primary mode of...
There has been a lot of discussion recently around Goal 17 of the Sustainable Development Goals...
Budget wrap With whispers of a diversion of aid funds to intelligence agencies on the eve of the...
Prior to coming in to Government Julie Bishop, possibly softening us up for future budget cuts...
Scott Morrison’s second Federal budget is, thankfully, a pragmatic one. It is a reset budget which...
Universal basic income continues to be a hot topic in global development. In this blog post, Martin...
