Reading, watching and listening recommendations
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...
Monthly Archive: November 2023
Ghana agroecology project targets vulnerable youth
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...
Local teams offer hope in Herat
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...
Is Cash King?
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...
For-profit businesses offer more sustainable solutions to poverty
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...