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Caine Prize 2013
Just a quick post to share this link to the New Internationalist where they share the five shortlisted stories for the Caine Prize 2013. All the stories can be downloaded in a pdf version in full and...
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What Is Changing For Ordinary People In Myanmar?
An article from BBC Media Action in Myanmar Making a World Debate Local which explores the view of ordinary people in Myanmar about the current changes in the country. The changes over the past eight...
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What is Development?
I want to share this article by my friend Veronica about returning to her home town in Malaysia after seven years abroad. She discusses the changes in her own community and the positive effect that...
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Waves: Travelling to Ometepe, Nicaragua
The next morning we travel to the town of Altagracia. The election has arrived to Ometepe. With it, unseen divisions in Nicaragua start to emerge. People group around the two forms of the main...
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Your summer reading list: Rashida Jones, Elizabeth Gilbert, Bill and Melinda...
catrionakn:So many interesting recommendations on this list. Don’t know where to start. I will report back when I have the chance to read some of them! Originally posted on TED Blog: Summer: the season...
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The Journey to Life: Giving Birth in Africa
Image Credit to Pablo Patruno A beautiful photo essay by Paolo Patruno following mothers through the journey of giving birth in Africa and highlighting the difficult reality of this journey. In Malawi...
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Land and Sex: What is the Connection for Women?
Securing a right to land for women, we expect to find that it will protect her economic security and also her livelihoods, as well as her rights in divorce and inheritance. We don’t often think it...
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New Briefing: Reconsidering approaches to women’s land rights in sub-Saharan...
Sharing a new briefing I have been working on about gender equal land governance. Discussions around gender equality in land governance in sub-Saharan Africa often highlight the fact that only a small...
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Getting to the root of gender equal land governance
Sharing a new blog I have been working on for IIED. (G)ender inequalities in land governance can be seen as the result of women not being involved in local decision-making processes around land. They...
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What Women Want
A new blog for IIED on What Women Want to happen when their communities are affected by land deals. Our work on gender, land and accountability, which looks at large-scale land acquisition processes in...
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