By Lisa Horner, Research and Policy Adviser The High Level Panel on the post-2015 agenda met for the last time this week before it presents its recommendations to the UN Secretary General at the end of the month. We’re hopeful read more
The most dangerous day
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By Louise Holly, Senior Health Policy & Advocacy Adviser As my colleague Rica wrote in an earlier post, Save the Children’s State of the World’s Mothers report shines a spotlight on newborns this year. It includes the first-ever Birth Day read more
Cutting the Odds on the First Day
Rica Garde Research and Policy Adviser The 14th State of the World’s Mothers (SOWM) focusses on the plight of newborn babies worldwide. This edition releases the first ever Birthday index which analyses first-day death rates in 186 countries identifying the read more
#inequalities 2015 report launch
Now updated to reflect the whole discussion, the Leadership Meeting and co-chairs’ statement, and the prospects for inequality in post-2015 and broader development processes. The global post-2015 consultation on inequality, led by UNICEF and UNWomen, has delivered its report to read more
Why measure the uncountable such as political commitment?
By Rica Garde, Research and Policy Adviser Today the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) launched the Hunger and Nutrition Commitment Index (HANCI). Much has been said about children’s nutrition in developing countries and what should be done to improve read more
Unspeakable crimes against children: national law reform to help combat sexual violence against children in conflict
By Ashley Jones, Policy Adviser The UK Government, led by William Hague, has committed to prioritise the issue of widespread sexual violence in conflict at the G8 foreign ministers’ meeting taking place tomorrow and Thursday. One of the main read more
Don’t put inequality on the ‘too difficult’ pile
This week a couple of presidents, a handful of ministers, and some of the world’s top development thinkers are meeting in Bali to tackle big questions about our collective future. While the location is enviable (I’m writing between sleet showers read more
Money on an island
NGO question: How to communicate to the wider public that tricky economic justice issue, in a way that really cuts through? The issues around tax and illicit flows are a case in point. People have tried all sorts in read more
Ethnic inequality, and counting light
Just came across a fascinating paper while looking for examples of how people have worked with household survey data to construct indicators of ethnolinguistic inequality. This uses Afrobarometer data, and light instead. I know, light. Ethnic Inequality Alberto read more
Video: Inequality debate at the Frontline Club
Last night saw a really lively panel on inequality at London’s Frontline journalists’ club, chaired by Paddy Coulter from OPHI and with contributions from Charles Sennot and Michael Moran of GlobalPost, Chris Johnes of Oxfam, Faiza Shaheen of the New Economics Foundation and me. Frontline blogged it, so read more