“Act now, save later”. Through this campaign, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) sheds light the exorbitant cost of recovery assistance following natural disasters, and urges wealthy nations to spend now in order to save later. The campaign aims to raise awareness of the stark [...]
Brasilia and Geneva, 15 February 2012 – The 20th anniversary of the Rio convention and Agenda 21 will be upon us in a few months. Twenty years ago, a global commitment signaled a fundamental change in development. An honest assessment suggests that while advances have been made and innovations have occurred, we have often failed to [...]
There are 925 million undernourished people in the world today, which means that one in seven people do not get enough food to be healthy and lead an active life (FAO, 2011). The current famine in East Africa has brought the food security issue back to the core of the international development agenda. Ensuring access [...]
Brasilia, 08 December 2011, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG) Visiting Fellow, Ms Mary Robbins, who holds an MA in International Affairs from The New School, in New York City, provided an insightful presentation on Brazil’s evolving security policy in favela communities in Rio Janeiro, in which she examined the extent of these polices in two specific [...]
