"COVID-19 and Private Health: Market and Governance Failure"
An Open Access article by Dr Owain Williams has been published in Development.
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Lata Narayanaswamy on Inside Geneva podcast: "Africa and Covid-19: what can be learned?"
"Why does Africa have so few coronavirus cases compared to Western Europe and North America? What are countries on the African continent doing right, and is the West prepared to learn from them?"
Dr Lata Narayanaswamy joins Imogen Foulkes on the podcast 'Inside Geneva' to discuss these questions and more.
Temitayo Odeyemi on subnational parliamentary digital engagement in Nigeria
‘When disconnected institutions serve connected publics: subnational legislatures and digital public engagement in Nigeria’, an article co-authored by CDE PhD student Temitayo Odeyemi and Omomayowa Olawale Abati, has been published in The Journal of Legislative Studies.
Information is not enough. Why weather forecasts might not be useful or accessible for African farmers
CGD member Lata Narayanaswamy has been part of a team looking at how (whether) women farmers in Kenya access weather forecasts and climate information. The value of such data for individual farmers is frequently overstated. This research clearly demonstrates the limited value of this data in the absence of wider contextual understandings of agricultural livelihoods....
One size does not fit all: The reality of the age-grade principle of schooling in the Global South
A blog recently published by UNESCO's International Institute for Educational Planning draws on Prof Caroline Dyer's work on data generated through the People's Action for Learning (PAL) network.
Towards better knowledge sharing- webinar 14th July 2020
In partnership with the Global Water Partnership Tanzania, Ministry of Water - Tanzania and UNESCO East Africa, we held a webinar to discuss the feasibility for creating a knowledge exchange hub in Tanzania. Water Knowledge Exchange Hub Webinar
Water Security Hub meeting Addis Ababa Feb 2020
We were in Addis Ababa in February 2020 for the GCRF Water Security and Sustainable Development Hub Assembly. https://www.watersecurityhub.org/about
Addressing the tangled politics of pollution
PhD student, Shivani Singhal, has published a blog at The Climate Press entitled 'Delhi and the River of Love' exploring the multiple and complex politics of pollution in the Yamuna river.
PhD student Keya Khandaker and Dr Lata Narayanaswamy co-author blog article for the Ghent Centre for Global Studies
The blog article is the last of a series entitled ‘Debating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)’, which aimed to foster critical debates on the SDGs by discussing them from different angles.
CGD involved in Newcastle University-led £20 million UKRI GCRF Water Security and Sustainable Development Hub
CGD is part of the new GCRF 'Water Hub' project. Eighty per cent of the world’s population live in areas threatened by water security yet efforts to resolve this are repeatedly thwarted by pressures such as pollution, extreme weather, urbanisation, over-abstraction of groundwater and land degradation. In response to this challenge Newcastle University is leading...