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World Humanitarian Day 19 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
World Humanitarian Day marks the day, ten years ago, when 22 aid workers were killed by a terrorist attack on the UN headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq. Ten years on, aid workers continue to face targeted...
Is it time to ban the term 'dissemination'? 19 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
'Using the word ‘dissemination’ often implies a form of ‘lazy’ communication: like throwing a stone in a pond, there are ripples, but you are never quite sure where it is going to land and what it mig...
A day to honor Syria’s humanitarian workers 19 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
Aid agencies need to rethink how they calculate the risks to the lives of local aid personnel, and seek to extend the same duty of care to local staff and international aid workers to ensure that as m...
World Humanitarian Day: counting the costs 18 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
'On World Humanitarian Day, August 19, we are reminded of the importance of the security and safety of humanitarian aid workers, both local and international.'
How to ... tailor youth entrepreneurship programmes for success 16 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
How do you maximise impact when there is little evidence of what works best?
Al-Shabaab’s theft: humanitarian and security implications 15 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
The theft of UK aid in Somalia by the militant group al-Shabaab risks provoking a set of reactionary responses. The humanitarian community must remain committed to addressing the needs of vulnerable p...
The end of cheap rice: a cause for celebration? 14 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
Cheap rice may well be a thing of the past according to this new ODI Briefing which says that growing pressure on land and water resources, coupled with population growth, may be pushing the world tow...
Unblocking results in Tanzanian rural water supply 14 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
Research Fellow Helen Tilley interviews Rinus Van Klinken, acting Director of SNV Tanzania, to talk about the governance constraints he has encountered in his work on improving rural water supply in T...
Should ODI bite the open access bullet for its journals? 14 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
'Of course I’d like more people to read ODI’s peer-reviewed journals –Development Policy Review and Disasters. I hate the idea of people being shut out ... But I wish it were as easily done as it is s...
Jim Kim’s ‘science of delivery’: what role for politics? 13 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
'When the World Bank adopts a new idea, trickle-down effects swiftly follow. So when Jim Kim, the Bank’s President, announces that ‘the science of delivery’ will be a hallmark of his tenure, we should...
