By: Secret aid worker 29 March 2016 The Guardian Is it hypocritical for an aid agency to come to a developing country looking to improve local...
DEVELOPMENT: Secret aid worker: Why do expats earn more than the rest of us?
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DEVELOPMENT: Where does the $8bn UN peacekeeping budget go?
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DEVELOPMENT: My career’s biggest lesson: no women, no development
By: Patricia T. Morris 3 April 2016 The Guardian More than two decades after the Beijing conference, the absence of women’s perspectives and...
DEVELOPMENT: Life Amid Conflict In Yemen: ‘Everyone has forgotten us’
By: Karl Schembri 21 March 2016 The Guardian More than 80% of the population is now in need of humanitarian aid. On a visit to the capital...
DEVELOPMENT: Secret Aid Worker: Buzzwords Are Killing Development
Tuesday 8 March 2016 The Guardian Words like ‘human-centred’ and ‘grassroots’ aren’t helping communities, they just make donors feel better about...
AFGHANISTAN/DEVELOPMENT: Afghanistan’s surprisingly predictable economic crash
By Jared Ferrie Asia Editor 14 March 2016 IRIN Afghanistan’s economic collapse was sudden, surprising, and entirely predictable. When the United...
DEVELOPMENT: The Empowerment of Women Will Be Central to Realising Sustainable Global Development
By Mary Robinson original Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland,(1990-1997) and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights...
AFGHANISTAN/DEVELOPMENT: Afghanistan’s Path to Women’s Rights Is Paved With Risk, but Built on Hope
Posted 8 March 2016 0:55 GMT By: Rustam Ali Seerat original For Afghan women, the systematic repression and violence of the Taliban era was...
DEVELOPMENT: The Great Land Rush Series: Ethiopia: The billionaire’s farm
MARCH 1 2016 Written by: Tom Burgis Images by Charlie Bibby original Across the globe, investors are betting billions on land. Tom Burgis reports...
ON DEVELOPMENT: Aid work: an insult to the poor? – poem
A Zimbabwean aid worker shares his reflections on the NGO sector through a poem By: Admiral Ncube Friday 19 February 201605.34 EST original...
ON DEVELOPMENT: The future of aid: will international NGOs survive?
By: Deborah Doane Tuesday 23 February 2016 09.01 EST original My first job in the international NGO (INGO) sector was working with the British Red...
ON DEVELOPMENT: The stealth aid raid: militarising Britain’s development budget
By: Diane Abbott Mon, 29 Feb 2016 17:38 GMT original Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters...