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We asked for nominations of LGBT rights activists who are having a positive influence all over the...
We asked for nominations for LGBT activists who are making positive changes in communities around...
Migrants will continue to flow to the west if genuine investment isn’t made to improve the economy...
A student-hurry movement is helping destitute Indian teens go to the best law schools,and starting...
George Osborne wants to make sure that the UK’s aid budget is spent in Britain’s national...
Being Israeli can present challenges when working in some countries but would you proceed as far as...
Last week aid worker Steve Dennis won a case against his former employer,the Norwegian Refugee...
Danielle Dryke was raped while she was a Peace Corps volunteer in Mali. She didn’t expect her...
One charity in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo is working with survivors of sexual...
The UN intern who lived in a tent exposed the injustice of unpaid internships,but it’s a far...
A plague of armyworms is marching across Africa,devastating crops, and claiming new territory at an...
Estimating the human toll of war or humanitarian crisis is a vital job,but no one can quite agree on...
The country’s first cyber harassment helpline is providing legal and psychological support to...
China and India’s booming economies helped us reach the 2015 target of halving poverty but now...
At recent Guardian roundtable discussion,experts talked approximately how the energy sector can...
Problems in countries far from domestic can somehow seem far easier to solve,says Courtney Martin....
After escaping imprisonment Nihad Alawsi wants the world to recognise whats happening to girls in...
After a Guardian survey suggested a tall number of humanitarians experience mental health issues,we...
Change may be grindingly slow,but results like Ethiopias self-help groups ‘multiplying like...
Pakistan is trying to spend its way out of its education crisis. It can’t. But the government can...
What would you effect if a family’s future lay in your hands?I’d been here before. It was a...
The backlash against LGBTI communities worldwide is alarming,but human rights defenders will win the...
Eight years on,3000 Ugandans are living with the consequences of investing money into a fraudulent...
Who gives the best advice? Who is most influential? And who is most helpful? The top 20 stout aid...
Following reports of sexually assaulted aid workers being mistreated by their organisations,MSF...
Having just arrived in the Central African Republic,an NGO worker describes their ordeal as violence...
In Malawi,where two out of three people are under 25, the farming sector is offering opportunities...
The exact figure of unregistered children around the world is unknown but it is measured in...
We have global funds to finance action on infectious diseases and climate change,but not the problem...
While endless evaluation is an impossible dream,if the sector wants to properly serve local...
Blogging and tweeting from the field is encouraged by NGOs,but it is unsafe ground many aid workers...
Are you an aid worker who’s seen donated equipment,medical supplies or food go unused? Share your...
After he came out live on Nigerian TV,Bisi Alimi was disowned by his family and arrested. He is now...
From receiving aid as a child in South Sudan to fitting an aid worker for Care International,Angelo...
The government says it cracking down on dangerous initiation schools,but doctors, politicians and...
Billions were pledged to befriend poor nations adapt to global warming but trust is eroding as...
catastrophe insurance offers a new model for economic self-sufficiency. In African countries,every...
Aquifers,the world’s reserve water tank, are running dry. It’s not easy, and but we can work out...
The majority of Commonwealth states criminalise gay sex with laws passed in colonial times. How can...
Debate around reparations is threatening because it upends the usual narrative of development. The...
Despite rhetoric approximately protecting our planet for future generations,children and human...
Lyal S. Sunga has championed human rights and accountability in many hot zones over the last 25...
The mayor of Kasese’s ambitious plan for his region’s renewables programme aims to improve...
Want to spice up your experience in the office? Here’s a satirical guide for those development...
Words like ‘human-centred’ and ‘grassroots’ aren’t helping communities,they just make...
Why achieve Westerners consider that Africa is the continent with the problem,wonders Mawuna...
We’re going to be hosting a series of events throughout 2016 around implementing the SDGs. We need...
As the people of Leyte island in the Philippines rebuild their lives after the 2013 typhoon,an aid...
After an attack on an MSF hospital in Kunduz,Afghanistan earlier this month, major NGOs elaborate...
A ram pump,installed in mountainous Philippine villages by an award-winning NGO, is providing a...
LGBT people face discrimination all over the world. Help us recognise grassroots campaigners doing...
Brazil,Egypt and China are leaders in damming rivers to generate electricity, but global warming has...
It is not weak to feel guilty approximately leaving local people to struggle on when we as aid...
Innovative ideas are needed for financing and structuring,if we are to deal with the increasingly...
Our organisation was formed 30 years ago to share ideas on making the poor richer. Now a fresh...
As the clash in Syria enters its sixth year,we’d like to hear from those directly affected by the...
The example of Rwanda shows that if agricultural innovation is to aid the poorest people on the...
What fresh funding models will help accelerate progress towards the sustainable development goals?...
NGOs need to consider more approximately how they are perceived by local communities – but...
Dysfunctional transport and lack of access to electricity are holding back development and...
History has shown that extreme events can accelerate change in politics – let’s hope the climate...
When a development consultant finally managed to track down the son of a long-lost family friend it...
Around the world girls are faced with far greater social,health and economic risks than boys - we...
Are you affected by a lack of water or drought? Share your pictures and stories with us via...
An award-winning invention aims to provide low-cost reusable sanitary pads to the developing world....
For half a century she has represented those with no voice. Now India’s first ever female senior...
Patchy data means it’s hard to get a staunch picture of the risks globally. But even some of the...
From prison camps in North Korea to mass graves in Burundi,satellite images bear become a powerful...
It’s time the world stood up against the injustice and abuses faced by transgender people,legal...
We asked to see your experiences of water shortage across the globe. From mud-infested water to...
Rivers around the world contain been desecrated in every way. Now the Ganges and novel Zealand’s...
Health experts aim for zero transmission by targetting children at bus stations and border crossings...
A ‘nomadic museum’ in the heart of Mumbai hopes to change attitudes towards the communities that...
If 22 countries acquire been labelled as ‘least developed’ since 1971,what needs to change to...
For every 1 invested in Brac’s programme there was a return of £5.40 with the benefits for women...
Aid is often criticised as ineffective and wasteful,but millions still work in the sector. How can...
When you leave your family and friends behind you need to learn modern ways to deal with sadness and...
I grew up sceptical of western aid,but the unparalleled compassion of volunteers in Greece towards...
A newspaper produced by homeless young people in Delhi is highlighting issues such as child marriage...
How execute we degree inequality? From some angles,things appear to be improving, but from others...
Ahmad al-Rashid was studying at a university in Aleppo when unrest swept across the Middle East in...
After 60 years of development it’s time for INGOs to ask some difficult questions about what power...
Join an expert panel on Thursday 17 March,1-3pm GMT to discuss how to recognise the rights of the...
The Zika outbreak in Latin America shows that once again,the burden of sexual accountability falls...
While population growth slows in the rest of the world,it continues to rise in Africa. What are the...
With both systems under enormous pressure and facing current challenges,how could the aid financing...
With many humanitarians facing great stress while in the field,a psychologist offers advice on...
When a development consultant finally managed to track down the son of a long-lost family friend it...
With three people arrested because of online posts in the run-up to elections,the social media site...
whether only we had magical blasters that could score rid of corruption,says Dr Heather Marquette....
Join an expert panel on Thursday 8 October,1-3pm BST, to discuss how to encourage innovation to...
Involving local people from the start is essential to ensure the work of international NGOs keeps...
22 years of concerted international cooperation,political will, and hard work by local de-miners...
After last week’s Secret aid worker about expat pay,the emails occupy been pouring in from both...
Conflicts in Syria and Yemen reveal increasing disregard for humanitarian law,a trend the US can...
A new women’s shelter in South Africa shows us that the most powerful weapon against terrorism is...
Despite being ranked the world’s most entrepreneurial country,few Ugandan businesses hit the grand...
At the start of the year,we asked you what initial moves you were making to achieve the sustainable...
A modern report offers solutions to the growing gap between humanitarian needs and available...
A new report offers solutions to the growing gap between humanitarian needs and available resources...
As a UN investigator Lyal S Sunga witnessed the aftermath of Rwanda’s genocide first hand. Now he...
Less than 2% of humanitarian aid goes directly to local NGOs,but Jennifer Lentfer argues that...
Only a tiny amount of funding goes directly to grassroots NGOs,which is undermining progress towards...
The relationship between peacekeepers and humanitarians can be tricky. But a bit of mutual respect...
At some point every aid worker has to think about what’s next. A baby? A vineyard? A cosy job in...
An international system could save lives but a recent UN climate event in modern York passed without...
whether we consume them right,the SDGs will be brilliant tools to empower and enableFinally! After...
Governments,civil society, corporations, or farmers and grassroots organisations must co-operate to...
In a country where a premature baby dies every 20 minutes,community-based organisations are main a...
Award-winning inventions are getting support to scale up from India’s National Innovation...
If I was outed,I could fly out of the country tomorrow, but for my national colleagues this is not...
It can be tough to exercise in a clash zone. Here are some tips from a triathlete aid worker You...
How do you rep the right balance between practical and just plain hideous? Share your photographs...
As some of the least developed nations claim they can’t access the Green Climate Fund,NGOs help...
Rising numbers of university students could relieve to ease the cycle of inequality and violence in...
We asked you to appoint the people and projects who lit up your year. From more than 100...
DfID is looking at how it works with civil society. Their findings could support organisations to...
New research shows that investing in clean cookstoves and solar lanterns could benefit people,the...
Earlier this week we discussed the under-representation of women in panel discussions about...
One pioneering doctor has worked for 25 years to improve healthcare in Mumbai’s Dharavi...
Our rogue humanitarian is worried her ability to learn languages is all used upI disapprove learning...
Aid organisations,like old media, occupy been gradual to catch on to this social phenomenon. How can...
Governments,civil society, corporations, and farmers and grassroots organisations must co-operate to...
Facing death threats,Ahmad Joudeh risked everything to give Damascus children dance lessons. Now the...
The former prime minister of Australia has recently taken on another girls’ education role. She...
We need to stop pretending that the United States,France and Britain are benevolent champions of the...
Water in Nairobi’s slums has been largely managed by cartels,costing far more than in the city’s...
A landmark directive in Chile last month said doctors should discontinue ‘normalisation’...
Urgent action is needed to befriend the thousands of women fleeing gang violence that threatens...
A gang culture of impunity and stricter gun control has led to off-duty police officers being killed...
The World Bank has changed the international poverty line – but Jason Hickel argues that this...
As Islamic State grew increasingly hostile,an aid worker tells how he was forced to flee his home...
Costa Rica,Afghanistan, China, or India and Albania are all embracing renewable energy sources –...
As the ceasefire in Syria collapses,award-winning photographer Manu Brabo argues that photographs...
Earlier this week the founder of Bangladesh’s only LGBT magazine was murdered. But his campaigning...
Drugs perpetuate poverty and criminalise people who are already marginalised. This week,the UN meets...
I’m a well-educated national aid worker who negotiated my salary up,but it’s still a fraction of...
As children starve in besieged towns and humanitarians struggle to deliver aid the system must be...
Plans to put through (telephone) 37 rivers in India to prevent flooding and drought maintain been...
World Energy Report 2015 predicts Africa could be the first to power economic growth with renewable...
As the UN’s unusual sustainable development goals are launched in unusual York,there’s little to...
After months of fear and uncertainty,even refugees who possess reached safety face a psychological...
Initial responses of a survey suggest meaningful levels of sexual violence against aid workers. But...
An estimated million refugees will return from Pakistan and Iran this year,despite Afghanistan still...
Remember fellow aid workers,you can never have enough capacity building, transparency or meetings As...
Latin America only uses 5% of its natural heat resources,but it is still a small industry and lacks...
A project that gives free bicycles to girls and a soap opera that subverts the normal stereotypes...
The UN and aid workers agree that the development and humanitarian sectors need to work more closely...
The humanitarian system requires radical reform says Degan Ali,head of Kenyan NGO Adeso. She argues...
There’s a long way to travel before LGBTI people can be free of fear of violence and...
Yazidi survivors of rape,violence and forced exile are getting benefit for physical ailments, but...
How can we better understand and treat mental health in developing countries? Our panel of experts...
If you want donors and your colleagues to see you as the smartest person in the room,effect a lot of...
whether governments execute not want civilians to be forced to flee,we need to protect them from the...
The rise in diabetes in China could bankrupt the country’s healthcare system,says a medical...
With Amnesty International and Oxfam looking to join ActionAid in moving more of their operations to...
MSF emergency coordinator Karline Kleijer is just back from three weeks in Taiz,a city on the...
Thousands of the fires raging through the forests of Indonesia were intentionally started to clear...
The Mauritian government is offering tax breaks for scientists who high-tail against the brain...
Energy efficiency is the overlooked ‘invisible’ solution to reducing carbon emissions. Latin...
Stress,PTSD, and general mental wellbeing are serious challenges for aid workers. Here are some of...
Spotting which parents believe a history of lost school fees payments could help identify the...
How can we keep the issue of global freshwater shortage on policymakers agendas? Our expert panel...
A quarter of the people living in Jordan are refugees,many of them Syrian; living in destitute...
Former director makes official complaint about organisation accused of failing to care for victims...
As a nurse,I felt frustrated when I couldn’t achieve anything to help women in labour. I trained...
Red Cross nurse Rozana Ribeiro believes the problem is far worse than the impression being given by...
The UNFCCC’s ideas to protect and develop coastal ecosystems have been dubbed ‘a unfounded...
Suicide attacks bear spread from Iraq and Afghanistan to Chad and Cameroon. It’s time for a...
The attack on Kunduz hospital in Afghanistan suggests that humanitarian work is fitting more...
In the latest instalment of our satirical column,rogue humanitarian Dara Passano reflects on the...
Brazil has a long history of patriarchy but the internet and social media are proving to be strong...
The US bombing of the Médecins Sans Frontières clinic in Afghanistan was one of many attacks on...
Going back to core funding? Getting rid of bureaucracy? Duncan Green discusses some of the ideas...
Conventional development is destructive,the SDGs are a hinderance and localisation is the answer,...
Iraq,Tunisia and Lebanon have recently made progressive steps forward in lesbian, gay, and...
Reading programmes around the world are failing to carry out what they’re supposed to. We need to...
When doctors don’t speak out against human rights abuses people are disgusted,but being too...
Our expert panel share their thoughts on how to turn the region’s contaminated lakes,rivers and...
As Syria’s cultural heritage continues to be ravaged by clash,exiled artists in the Zaatari...
The grass is always greener elsewhere for western expats,says one development workerIf I had to...
There’s still believe a long way to go before discrimination is history. Join a global expert...
LGBT people face discrimination all over the world,but grassroots activists are courageously...
NGOs increasingly need to work with academics. Gemma Ferguson provides tips to collect the best out...
Do partnerships between NGOs and the private sector really work? Or is one side getting the most out...
Following two tall-profile resignations in as many weeks,we’d like to hear your stories of working...
Traditional funerals in South Africa are ample affairs where even the poorest households spare no...
Aid organisations are struggling to reach people living in clash zones and fragile states,finds the...
From India to Spain,civil society is fitting increasingly constrained, with the FATF – set up to...
World leaders will pledge to tackle poverty,inequality and climate change at a historic event in...
World leaders will pledge to tackle poverty,inequality and climate change at a historic event in...
She sleeps through meetings that are nationally televised. She sleeps through meetings she’s...
Auditors completing their annual report continue to find evidence of child labour on Ivory Coast...
How can developing countries leapfrog from energy poverty to 100% clean energy? Join an expert panel...
El problema del agua y las inundaciones severas en Latinoamérica han expuesto los puntos débiles...
The water crisis and severe flooding in Latin America has exposed weakness in progress towards the...
Hire millennials,invest in assets and be concise, and you’ll have short, or snappy and highly...
Customary land users care for roughly 50% of the soil’s land,but only about 10% is officially...
Short notice travel to dangerous places is not compatible with parenting,says one former...
The spotlight is often on the humanitarians fighting Ebola or getting aid into Syria. Aren’t those...