Interviews
Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus is South Sudan’s ‘silent killer’
In South Sudan 91% of pregnant women give birth in their homes without access to a skilled birth attendant and often in unsatiary conditions. South Sudan has one of the world’s highest levels of infant...
WFP’s ShareTheMeal App now links donors with the people they’re helping
The World Food Programme has launched an innovative new feature to its app, ShareTheMeal, that will enable monthly donors to follow their donations and see exactly it is helping families in need. The ShareTheMeal...
Resilience to climate change in Asia-Pacific depends on gender equality, says UNEP
The United Nations Environment Programme have highlighted that for the Asia-Pacific region to develop a long term and sustainable resilience to the effects of climate change, they must address two key factors:...
“It is time to make refugee girls’ education a priority” says UNHCR
A new report by UNHCR titled ‘Her Turn’ reveals that refugee girls are half as likely to enrol in secondary school as their male peers. Despite access to education being recognised as a human...
Child marriage has fallen by 15% in the last decade
UNICEF has announced that the number of child marriages has declined significantly with 25 million being prevented in the last decade. The prevalence has decreased globally by about 15%, today 1 in 5 women...
APEC accelerates early warning systems after the record breaking disasters of 2017
APEC member economies are fast-tracking the development of digital safeguards in the areas of the Asia-Pacific region that are notably vulnerable to natural disasters. Emergency management officials from...
Nigeria plans to go big on green finance to fight climate change
The Nigerian Government has spoken of its plans to seriously scale-up its green finance initiatives over the coming year. This includes issuing green bonds worth $150 billion naira ($415 million) to help...
Kenya is declared free of dracunculiasis by WHO
The World Health Organisation has certified Kenya free of dracunculiasis following the recommendation of the International Commission for the Certification of Dracunculiasis Eradication (ICCDE). Kenya has...
Sweden increases its support for the economic empowerment of rural women
In 2014 the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the World Food Programme (WFP) and UN Women established the Joint Programme...
Energy efficiency is a top priority for Vietnam
The World Bank and Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade have announced a $102 million project to support the adoption of energy efficient technologies and practices in industrial enterprises....
$1 billion of new funding announced for climate adaptation projects
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is providing a new injection of $1 billion to combat climate change in poor countries. The funding will go directly towards 23 projects to help developing countries fight back...
Sri Lanka is hopeful a new pumping station will protect against flooding
At the start of 2018 work began in Colombo, Sri Lanka, to construct a large pumping station designed to extract water from flood prone parts of the city. Colombo sits on the Kelani River making it vulnerable...
