UN General Assembly and a Climate Emergency

by Jenny Costelloe/

For one week in late September, it seemed all roads led to New York, to the 74th United Nations General Assembly (aka “UNGA”)

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Equality will help agricultural transformation in Africa

by Alex Rees/

Transforming agriculture in Africa to provide sufficient nutritious foods, poverty reduction and economic growth is an essential task

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Youth, Unemployment and Extrajudicial killings in Kenya

by Nathaniel Kabala/

Is there a link between youth, unemployment, rural to urban migration and extrajudicial killings?

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Business as usual will not save the planet (tell us something we don’t know)

by Kate Simpson/

The Sustainable Development Goals describe a wonderful future for us all – so what’s getting in the way of us getting there?

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Dropping the ‘B’ bomb: whatever you do, don’t mention Brexit.

by Kate Simpson/

This week I was running a workshop with a very nice group of people from the British Army, when I accidently mentioned Brexit. I didn’t mean to, it just slipped out

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Echo Chambers in Sustainable Development

by Jenny Costelloe/

In this era of political change, when diverse and extreme views are being expressed freely, it can be tempting to retreat into our echo chambers [where an echo chamber is defined as “an environment in which a person encounters only beliefs or opinions that coincide with their own.”

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Finding the Nexus: M&E, Research and Learning

by Georgia Gilroy/

Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) has always been the nerdy cousin of the development world

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Organised Crime and Violent Extremism: What’s the difference, and why does it matter?

by Maia Blume/

The difference between organised crime and violent extremism is at times difficult to discern.

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10 x 10: Ten years and ten priorities to eliminate extreme poverty in Kenya

by Alex Rees/

3.9 million Kenyans, some 8% of the population, face the stark reality of living in extreme poverty.

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