Humanitarianism beyond gender as women and women as victims
Introducing a new Disasters issue on gender and humanitarian. Posted on Oxfam's From Povery to Power. ...
09
Mar
Blog
14
Feb
The challenge of retirement in the Congolese administration
Recent research by SLRC called on development agencies to 'build the capacity of the aid industry to develop capacity.' But how can agencies do this in practice? In this post, Rob Ricigliano suggests three actions that development agencies can take to address this question....
20
Dec
DR Congo: The case for taking the administration seriously
Stylianos Moshonas, Tom De Herdt and Kristof Titeca explore the challenges facing the DR Congo civil service....
19
Dec
Durable research uptake in DRC
What have we learned about how to make research count for development?...
27
Oct
Emergency sexwork: should NGOs recognize transactional sex as livelihood strategy?
How humanitarian agencies ignore the reality of transactional sex and why they should rethink their views on the issue....
27
Sep
Legitimacy: the dark matter of international development
Aoife McCullough outlines three problems with the way development actors currently seek to improve state legitimacy....
08
Aug
A systems view to building the capacity of the aid industry to build capacity
Recent research by SLRC called on development agencies to 'build the capacity of the aid industry to develop capacity.' But how can agencies do this in practice? In this post, Rob Ricigliano suggests three actions that development agencies can take to address this question....
25
Jul
Mainstreaming gender in an eight year research project: what we’ve learned
SLRC worked to mainstream gender throughout the first phase of its research. In this post, Dyan Mazurana reflects on what went well, what didn't, and what the Consortium has learned from the experience....
06
Jul
$15bn is spent every year on training, with disappointing results. Why the aid industry needs to rethink ‘capacity building’
Lisa Denney explains why the aid industry needs to rethink capacity building. Read the blog on From Poverty to Power. ...
06
Jul
Six out of seven ain’t bad: reflections from a two wave panel survey in five conflict-affected countries
Rachel Slater reflects on what she's learned from the SLRC survey. ...