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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Our man in Monrovia, Brendan Cox, files again… —————- So how universal is universal? In the context of the new development framework being discussed in Liberia this week does universal really mean every country must be covered by everything read more
It is with great pride that Uncounted accepted Blood and Milk’s award of the BAMBA for “Best Institutional Blog that should update more”, and took nearly as much pleasure to see Oxfam’s From Poverty to Power receive the BAMBA read more