Sunday 11 October was International Day of the Girl. This year’s focus is on Adolescent girls. Despite the MDG targets to achieve universal primary education and eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education by 2015, according to Afghanistan’s most recent census only 23% of...
Give a man a fish, he eats for a day; teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime. But what happens when he is unable to practice what he was taught? ...
Richard Mallett reflects on the importance of capacity building in this blog posted by Devex....
The response to Ebola has overlooked the political dimensions of this crisis, argues Lisa Denney in this IDS blog....
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern" padding_top="55"][vc_column][vc_column_text] The 2015 OECD report on States of Fragility [^] proposes a new way of measuring and classifying fragility that is really exciting and ground-breaking, but it’s less exciting once it gets to the policy prescriptions. We seem...
This Sunday will mark International Women’s Day across the world. Many will celebrate the progress that has been made towards eliminating gender inequality. However, for women living in conflict there is still a long way to go. Over the last four years, we have been...
Last Wednesday, we were lucky enough to be invited along to the launch of the Institute of Development Studies’ Ebola: Lessons for Development papers [^]. The event got us thinking about what the Ebola crisis tells us about our conventional ways of doing state-building and...
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....
Action on pay and working conditions in conflict-affected situations is needed, and this should be connected to the long history of working people fighting to combat exploitation through collective action....
Sometimes we forget that the state is not a thing, but a set of institutions made up of people. People can shape how the state functions and can trigger changes in the way it provides services and makes itself accountable to the population. ...