Two major studies on global poverty have just come out. The information they provide can help us to assess progress on world leaders’ ambitions to end poverty...
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Assessing aid and policy coherence
On Monday, the Center for Global Development launched the 2018 Commitment to Development Index. Since 2003, this is a regular assessment of the development...
Why I’m a humanitarian in Yemen
My first introduction to the humanitarian field was in March 2013 when I joined Save the Children in Yemen, and I was a graduate fresh from college. To be very...
Poverty: A defining issue
What does ‘poverty’ even mean in the UK? An independent commission has come up with a new answer to this question. Here’s why their new poverty measure is...
What’s the point of the Sustainable Development Goals?
You can always count on Duncan Green to ask a good question. In his latest blog post he appealed for examples of the Sustainable Development Goals having had an...
A Global Financing Facility for long-term change is what we need
The Global Financing Facility – the mechanism set up by the World Bank to support women’s children’s and adolescents’ health funding – could run the...
Coaching for life
In 2019 Save the Children will mark its Centenary moment. Whilst this will be a celebration of the work of so many to help reach and change the lives of...
The Prime Minister is right that aid is in the national interest, but that doesn’t mean aid in the national interest is right
The Prime Minister has opened her tour through South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya with a keynote speech, setting out the UK’s bold vision for a new UK-Africa...
Delivering Justice to Rohingya Children: one year on
It’s been almost a year since the sudden increase in violence against the Rohingya community in Myanmar. Since then, more than 700,000 Rohingya refugees have...
What can campaigners learn from Aretha Franklin?
R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to me... This song’s been spinning around my head these last couple of days since the world lost Aretha and her...