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South Africa paid tribute to women across the country on National Woman’s Day, which was held on 9 August 2015.
Africa’s Leading Women in Tech 2015News
In the beginning, "effective altruism" was mostly about fighting global poverty. Now it's becoming more and more about funding computer science research to forestall an artificial intelligence–provoked apocalypse.
OPINION: I spent a weekend at Google talking with nerds about charity. I came away … worried.News
It’s been 10 months since India officially launched Swachh Bharat, a national cleanliness drive, which, among other things, aims to put an end to the practice of open defecation in the country by 2019.
In India, Ending Open Defecation Requires More Than Just Behavior ChangeNews
If it's true that you can't talk about global development without discussing gender equality, it's also true that you can’t dive deep into gender in poor countries without talking about menstruation. However, the international conversation on this topic tends to be in hushed tones. Sometimes, even the most pragmatic global health and development experts get uncomfortable when the subject comes up.
Menstruation Holds Back Millions of Poor Women. Does This Outfit Have a Solution?Blog Post
This week was marked by some hopeful - perhaps even overly hopeful - events in global development. We cover the highlights, from a malaria vaccine to the U.N.'s new development goals - along with a dispatch from Kenya's never-ending mobile money wars and a thought-provoking point from Melinda Gates - in this roundup.
Weekly Roundup – 8/8/15: A solution to a perennial global health problem – and all the world’s other ills! – highlight this week in developmentNews
With so much ambition on the table, the post-2015 agenda could raise some tricky questions about living standards, environmental sustainability, and what exactly rich countries like the United States are agreeing to do over the next 15 years.
Are we ready for a ‘universal’ development agenda?News
For a minute there, it looked like Safaricom might have to break up its business.
Safaricom will not be forced to loosen its dominant hold on Kenya’s mobile-money marketNews
After more than two years of intense negotiations, the U.N.’s 193 member states have unanimously agreed on a new Sustainable Development Agenda (SDA) with 17 goals — including the elimination of extreme poverty and hunger — to be reached by 2030.
U.N. Targets Trillions of Dollars to Implement Sustainable Development Agenda
