On Sunday 6th September in Ankara, Turkey, Chatham House convened an International Policy Forum on ‘Empowering Women for Economic Growth: The smart choice for the G20’.
Share the Burden! Why Unpaid Domestic and Care Work Should be Top of the Agenda
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Social Policy and the Elimination of Extreme Poverty
“In middle-income countries, it may be that growth has lifted all the poor out of poverty who can be lifted; for the rest, social policy will be needed (Raj M. Desai 2015).”
Resource Politics: Living in the Anthropocene
There are panels looking at everything from mining to wildlife to carbon to water, with big themes cross-cutting on: Scarcity, politics and securitization; Resource grabbing…
Book Review: The Last Mile in Ending Extreme Poverty
The Last Mile in Ending Extreme Poverty will be a classic book for the era of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) towards 2030.
7 Ways to “Sell” Nutrition
Ugh, I hear some of you say. Sell nutrition? Well, it is not doing such a great job of selling itself: 1 in 3 world wide are malnourished in one form or another.
Land Policy and Governance: the Launch of LEGEND
The first in a series of Land Policy Bulletins from a new DFID-supported programme – LEGEND – came out recently.
Implementing SDGs to End Poverty and Malnutrition through Sustainable Development
At the United Nations General Assembly in this month, representatives will adopt a new sustainable development goals (SDGs), consisting of 17 goals and 169 targets.
Japan Starts Emergency Assistance to Dominica over the Tropical Storm Erika
The tropical storm named Erika hit the Commonwealth of Dominica on August 27. Over dozens of losses and the ongoing catastrophe, Japan decided to support the country.
10 Tips on Communicating Complex Ideas
Communicating clearly to non nutrition folks is difficult for nutrition folks because the topic is so laden with jargon and the technicalities actually matter. But that is no excuse.
UNICEF and Nutrition: What Do We Want From It?
I had been asked by Werner Schultink, UNICEF Nutrition Chief, to speak to the topic of “What does the global community expect of UNICEF? How should it respond?
