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Nutrition Boost: Time to rethink our approach to financing Sustainable Development Goal 2
I’m writing this from Washington DC, the site of the annual World Bank Spring Meetings. As hundreds of ministers descend on the city to discuss the pressing...
Suspected Chemical Attack:
A Never-Ending Nightmare for
Eastern Ghouta’s Children
By Ahmad Imam, Humanitarian Team at Save the Children Earlier this week I woke up to reports of the latest atrocity to hit families in Douma – a suspected...
A Yemeni Education
Yemen is a special place. It’s beautiful, steeped in history and culturally fascinating. We have a brilliant team in Aden and Lahj, two regions in the south...
Children in England deserve the very best of our education system
What must the government do to ensure our children – the leaders of tomorrow – get a world-class education? I have always been passionate about education....
Throwback Thursday – Imagine a world without vaccines
In 1980, The Police had the best-selling single in the UK, ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ was the top-grossing film and the World Health Organization officially...
Three years of war: A message from Yemen’s children
Three years of bloodshed Today marks three years since the escalation of the devastating conflict in Yemen. In that time, the country has been brought to its...
5 take-aways from the Data for Development Festival
Last week's Data for Development Festival was a gathering for policy-makers, academics, civil society representatives and governmental officials – and frankly...
What we do is simply too important to fail
At the beginning of the month, alongside my colleagues from across the international development sector, I joined the Safeguarding Summit. Hosted by the...
REFUGEE EDUCATION: THE TIME TO ACT IS NOW
Over the coming months UN Member States will gather in Geneva to negotiate the Programme of Action for the Global Compact on Refugees – a potentially landmark...