Archive for 'White Paper'
Awareness on climate change and the need for long term adaptation has been relatively slow to develop in Nigeria - 'Naija' in local slang - and with understandable reason. Some developing countries have never had major industrialisation or modern infrastructure, so the debate is rightly around how to ‘leap frog’ the historical development path and make use of the [...]
DFID Mozambique has been thinking about how to address the key challenges set out in DFID’s White Paper ‘Building our Common Future’, which was published in July this year.
Rita Zacarias, pictured here holding the cover of the soon to be published draft climate change strategy has been recruited to consider how action on climate change [...]
A current hot topic in development circles is whether at the upcoming UN general assembly meeting in New York, the advice of a topic level panel will be heeded to create a UN ‘super-agency’ for women. Currently a number of different UN agencies get involved with gender related work.Â
However there is a groundswell from some governments [...]
I've been away on holiday in Europe for a few weeks in July, it was incredible to see the change to Kano when I got back. Same old crumbling cement blocks, pot-holed streets and blazing sun. But after regular rainstorms for a month all the verges and wasteland have transformed from dusty waste to a blanket of [...]
Do you think announcements by British Government Ministers make any difference at all to people in Rwanda?  If I told the woman in the red cap who walks everyday along the road past my front gate here in Kigali what Douglas Alexander and Jack Straw said today (7th July), would she take any interest? I reckon that [...]
