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Kakuma (“nowhere” in Swahili) Camp in Northwest Kenya is ‘home’ to around 150,000 refugees. It is run by UNHCR and the Kenyan Department of Refugee Services. The camp houses refugees from South Sudan, Sudan,...
Donald Trump is putting the border wall between Mexico and Texas as a cornerstone of his campaign for election. The current conflict in Gaza and Palestine is symbolised by the wall round the West...
I admit that I’m a bit of a fan of Give Directly and of direct cash in principle. The arguments are compelling: direct cash hands power to developing communities – the very people who...
Sometimes it’s great to step back and reflect, learn and explore alternative views. Podcasts, documentaries, books and online articles are a great way to catch up. This is what the team at The Aid...
Young people living in Northern Ghana have been benefiting from the latest training sessions from CEAL’s Make Agriculture Work for Youth (MAW4Y) programme. The aim of the project is to encourage young people to...
When a major disaster happens, national and international government and humanitarian groups are immediately mobilised in the glare of world-wide media attention. They hit the ground in droves, distributing food, tools, machinery and setting...
The debate about direct cash transfers has been going on for some time with organisations such as Give Directly arguing that simply giving people money without conditions is the most efficient way to lift...
Despite growing evidence that social enterprises can be very effective in the fight against poverty, donor-led strategies still dominate and for many it’s hard to resist the inclination to “give” rather than support sustainable...
We’ve just been listening (via Audible) to Rory Stewart’s excellent book Politics On the Edge and came across a story that highlights some of the profound ignorance that exists in the world of International...
A leading economist claims that the highest polluting countries are merely creating distractions with schemes such as carbon offsets and the Damage and Loss fund, and calls for Africa to instead be treated as...
For years now civil society organisations and advocacy groups in the Global South have been running campaigns such as #ShiftThePower in an attempt to move Aid & Development decision-making and control into the hands...