Interviews
Women’s Business Organisations, Public Procurement and Sustainable Development
Procurement is about the transparent use of public funds and value for money, but must also be matched with making these funds sustainable. Each year, despite USD15 trillion passing through government hands...
Will the UN’s disaster risk framework withstand a changing climate?
Reducing disaster risk is probably something to write home about – right? Not according to the limited coverage of last week’s Sendai based UN negotiations of the second Hyogo framework for disaster...
World Water Day: Water Security and Sustainable Development
A secure water world is emerging as a top human development priority in the Post-2015 Development Agenda. To this end, UN Water, the United Nations’ inter-agency coordination mechanism for all water-related...
Cyclone Pam’s Path of Destruction and Recovery Response
Vanuatu’s President has appealed to the international community for support after Cyclone Pam caused “unprecedented damage” across the island. The “category 5” storm ripped...
Cities Must Plan for Climate Disasters: 5 Considerations for Sendai
On an ordinary morning in January 1995, the city of Kobe, Japan shook for less than a minute. By the time the tremors subsided, one of the most powerful earthquakes in recent history had already destroyed...
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[Infographic] How PPPs between telecommunications and humanitarian agencies can save lives
In preparation for their upcoming AIDF Asia: Aid & Response Summit, the Aid and International Development Forum (AIDF) has released a Mobile for Development infographic, visualising the growing ubiquity...
Help us Identify Solutions that Save Lives
We are researching thousands of solutions deployed in more than 100 countries to give NGOs, UN agencies, relief agencies and governments inspiring solutions that will improve humanitarian aid delivery and...
AIDF NAME TOP 100 TWITTER ACCOUNTS IN HUMANITARIAN AID AND DEVELOPMENT
The Aid and International Development Forum (AIDF) has released their ‘Top 100 Accounts to Follow on Twitter in 2015’. AIDF is the world leading independent forum specialising in disaster management...
M-farming: Empowering farmers through mobile technology
Agriculture is the backbone to most African economies, representing 15% of the continents total GDP. Around a quarter of the world’s arable land is found in Africa, yet it generates only 10% of global...
Strengthening civil society in peace building: evolving perspectives from South East Myanmar
One of the speeches I delivered last year after the Ramon Magsaysay Awards was at a forum where the theme was to review the prospects for peace and the reintegration of displaced persons in South East Myanmar....
The natural quality-quantity dilemma: food security in Asia
With global population exceeding the 7-billion mark this year, developing regions face profound implications for development with serious touch-points on sustainability, urbanisation, access to health services,...
AIDF Asia: Aid & Response Summit 2015 Dates Announced
Following four successful AIDF events in Asia, the Aid & International Development Forum is pleased to announce the AIDF Asia: Aid & Response Summit 2015 to take place at the United Nations...
