theguardian.com, by Nick Hepworth, July 19, 2016, original The global water crisis is not driven by absolute water scarcity, but by a scarcity of...
ON DEVELOPMENT: Water security for all? We need these five organisational changes
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ON DEVELOPMENT: Leaving no one (apart from migrants and refugees) behind
irinnews.org, July 25, 2016, original Ten months ago, the UN’s 2030 Agenda laid out an ambitious set of Sustainable Development Goals to be met over...
DEVELOPMENT: Foreign Aid Accountability Bill Unanimously Approved by Congress, Heads to the President for Signature
modernizeaid.net, July 6, 2016, original, July 6, 2016 (WASHINGTON) – This statement is delivered on behalf of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance...
HAITI, DEVELOPMENT: Red Cross Built Exactly 6 Homes For Haiti With Nearly Half A Billion Dollars In Donations
Even as the group has publicly celebrated its work, insider accounts detail a string of failures by Justin Elliott, ProPublica, and Laura Sullivan,...
HAITI, DEVELOPMENT: U.N. Accused of Cover Up as Cholera Ravages Haiti-wnyc.org
Haitians wash clothes in a stream January 8, 2011 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (Mario Tama / Getty) Since cholera first broke out in Haiti five years...
AFGHANISTAN, DEVELOPMENT: What the future holds for Afghan women-aljazeera.com
Al Jazeera speaks to Noorjahan Akbar, a human rights activist, about the immense challenges facing Afghan women aljazeera.com, By Liz Guch, 5/26/16...
DEVELOPMENT: The Humanitarian Clock Is Ticking, The Powerful Feign Deafness
Among the issues discussed was how the humanitarian sector could improve protection of civilians from violence. Jan Egelend, who heads the Norwegian...
DEVELOPMENT: Why the Poor Have Become Poorer in the US
Christopher Jencks, JUNE 9, 2016 ISSUE $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America by Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer Houghton Mifflin...
AFGHANISTAN: 1,000 Afghans flee fighting every day
Also available in العربية, IRIN, By Jared Ferrie, Asia Editor, 16 May 2016 About 1,000 Afghans have fled their homes due to fighting each day since...
DEVELOPMENT: Don’t blur the lines between development and humanitarian work
theguardian.com, by Marc Dubois, May 12, 2016, 3 min read, original A Syrian man stands on aid parcels from the UN World Food Programm (WFP) and the...
DEVELOPMENT: Is the World Humanitarian Summit’s Grand Bargain a Big Deal?
By Irin, www.irinnews.org, View Original, May 24th, 2016 The “Grand Bargain” is the name for a package of reforms to humanitarian funding, launched...
DEVELOPMENT: Classic rookie aid worker faux pas … and how to avoid them
The Guardian Development, Imogen Wall, Friday 6 May 2016 Off on your first mission as an aid worker? Learn from the many, many mistakes of those who...