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What ten villages on the Somalia-Kenya border can tell us about how aid needs to change

Duncan Green used a great metaphor in his recent blog when he called the recent mega-cuts in global aid budgets a tsunami. We are witnessing the sudden transformation of the aid sector that is losing life and diversity at a dizzying rate, like a coral reef weakened by rising sea temperatures and...

Patta Scott-Villiers

26 March 2025

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Pakistanis are paying over 1.7 billion GBP in zakat every year—mostly to women

Every year, hundreds of millions of Muslims across the world pay a proportion – broadly 2,5% – of their wealth as zakat, one of the five pillars of Islam. On the occasion of Ramadan, when most zakat is paid, we highlight three preliminary findings emerging from a new nationally...

Max Gallien & 2 others

26 March 2025

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Rethinking humanitarian diplomacy

Two hundred children were killed by Israeli airstrikes on Gaza in just 72 hours last week, while all life-saving aid supplies, and water has been cut off. Progress on a ceasefire in Ukraine is hitting obstacles and South Sudan's fragile peace is teetering on the brink of collapse. US bombs are...

Jeremy Allouche & 2 others

24 March 2025

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Facing our elephants in the room as we confront cuts to global research – Part 2

Following on our previous blog which reported on the perspectives to emerge from a meeting of researchers and funders from the global South and North on visioning equitable research partnerships, we now share the subsequent conversation between Suraj Jacob and James Georgalakis and their vision...

Suraj Jacob

James Georgalakis

24 March 2025

Opinion

Facing our elephants in the room as we confront cuts to global research – Part 1

Perspectives from Trivandrum, India and Brighton, UK on research equity: In the two jointly authored blogs, two very differently positioned members of the global development research community share their combined challenges in the promotion of more equitable research for global...

Suraj Jacob

James Georgalakis

24 March 2025

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How aid cuts will shatter global water and sanitation progress

The principle of leaving no one behind is central to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The progress toward achieving SDG 6, which aims to ensure universal access to water, sanitation, and hygiene by 2030 is increasingly under threat with recent development funding cuts posing a...

Lyla Mehta

24 March 2025

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Is going to school still worth it? Dilemmas for young people in post-land reform Zimbabwe

There is a large literature on the economic returns to education around the world. Most of this points to the value of schooling in simple economic terms for boys and girls at both primary and secondary levels. But what happens when the type of jobs that school leavers usually get no longer...

Ian Scoones

24 March 2025

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Learning from an evolving public health emergency to guide responses to mpox in Africa

As mpox continues to spread within the Democratic Republic of Congo and neighbouring countries, concern is growing over how best to respond to this second mpox Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). In this PHEIC, Clade 1b cases in non-endemic contexts are increasingly linked...

Michael Kunnuji, University of Lagos & 6 others

21 March 2025

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On World Rewilding Day: How to align nature recovery for net zero with agrifood justice

It is World Rewilding Day today, an international celebration to raise awareness of “the benefits of wilder nature for wildlife, people and planet.” Rewilding is about letting nature recover in its own direction and usually comprises reducing human control and management of...

Lídia Cabral & 3 others

20 March 2025

Opinion

What is the future of funding for international development?

International development and global humanitarian assistance has been uprooted at the beginning of 2025 due to a series of budget cuts announced to Official Development Assistance (ODA). Most notably, the USAID funding freeze caused shockwaves around the world, removing life-saving assistance...

19 March 2025

Opinion

Design and Development: A Dialogue part 2

Are designers doing development? Do development professionals practise design? Designers and development practitioners have in common that they try to (re)shape the future. They make financial, material, practical, processual, and institutional interventions to change lives and improve outcomes,...

Dominic Glover & 4 others

18 March 2025

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Design and Development: A Dialogue part 1

Dominic Glover & 4 others

18 March 2025

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What ten villages on the Somalia-Kenya border can tell us about how aid needs to change

Pakistanis are paying over 1.7 billion GBP in zakat every year—mostly to women

Rethinking humanitarian diplomacy

Facing our elephants in the room as we confront cuts to global research – Part 2

Facing our elephants in the room as we confront cuts to global research – Part 1

How aid cuts will shatter global water and sanitation progress

Is going to school still worth it? Dilemmas for young people in post-land reform Zimbabwe

Learning from an evolving public health emergency to guide responses to mpox in Africa

On World Rewilding Day: How to align nature recovery for net zero with agrifood justice

What is the future of funding for international development?

Design and Development: A Dialogue part 2

Design and Development: A Dialogue part 1

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