At a time of skyrocketing humanitarian needs, while other governments are slashing aid budgets, the European Union has just increased its by 60...
ON DEVELOPMENT | The EU increases international aid by 60%
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ON DEVELOPMENT |Bucking the trend: Why cash-based aid has hidden risks
As more humanitarian cash distributions become cashless, the privacy of aid recipients must be part of the calculation. Source: Bucking the trend:...
ON THE MEDIA, ON DEVELOPMENT | How development actors can help, not hurt, information ecosystems
Development actors tend to pay media to publish content that often is just their PR material in disguise. It’s time to rethink a practice that...
ON DEVELOPMENT | It is time to rethink international development cooperation
The pandemic has heightened the importance of “genuine” international cooperation. A major part of international development cooperation relates to...
ON DEVELOPMENT | Rethinking Humanitarianism podcast: Decolonizing aid
The New Humanitarian - I highly recommend their news service and podcast. Check out there most recent podcast: What does dismantling colonialism in...
ON DEVELOPMENT | In the Time of COVID-19: Why Have We Not Declared a Tuberculosis Pandemic?
While global attention is focused on COVID-19, tuberculosis remains the world’s deadliest infectious disease. There should be a more concerted...
ON DEVELOPMENT | The West’s humanitarian reckoning
“When you're making decisions [about] where your money gets invested, it's not [done with] the people who are receiving that money,” said Krishnan....
ON DEVELOPMENT | How US Police Became Paramilitaries
That beat cops so often look like troops is not just a problem of “optics.” There is, in fact, a “positive and statistically significant...
ON DEVELOPMENT | The Pandemic Underlines America’s Ingrained Racism
The murder of George Floyd by a police officer in broad daylight came amid a high point in the continuing rampage of the coronavirus throughout the...
ON DEVELOPMENT | How COVID-19 is disrupting other health responses
More than 250,000 people have died in this pandemic, but untold indirect losses lie ahead as other health services risk being neglected. Source: How...
ON MIGRATION, ON DEVELOPMENT | Data shows gang killings in El Salvador rival bombings in Syria
Violence-prone Latin American and Caribbean countries have been added to ACLED’s open-source conflict database – a first look. Source: The New...
ON DEVELOPMENT | The dancing prisoners of Burkina Faso
The Healing Power in Action Wonderful to see the healing power of dance captured in this article and photos. For another great story highlighting...