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A video from the Australian NGO WorldVision, in advance of “Making Health Global” in August 2010
NGOs and multilaterals work together and push each other towards universal norms and expectations, such as the Millenium Development Goals.
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Mobiles in Classrooms
BridgeIT is a program that uses mobile phones to bring educational videos to rural classrooms – a mobile teaching tool deployed in The Philippines and Tanzania, which is changing the way teachers and students interact. Read more
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Negative Effects of Remittances
Last year, the official amount of remittances in the Phillipines reached US$14.4 billion, more than 10 per cent of the country’s GDP. Thus, the country is now the world’s third highest remittance-recipient country after India and Mexico. But how much do the Philippines pay for the remittances? How do natives […]
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People – Oil – Policy: playing between welfare and curse
“What we are currently thinking about is how to avoid the resource curse through two things, first, how to make oil and gas revenues transparent, and second, how to increase citizen’s participation in sustainable development planning” says Kunarto Marzuki. Best practices from Indonesia.