Since the opening match on 12 June 2014, the world’s eyes have been glued to Brazil as nations follow their teams’ progress through the World Cup. But behind the football lies a middle income country battling many problems...
On International Migrants Day, our Capacity4dev Ambassador Fiorina Mugione, Vice-President of the NGO Ofelia, shares her views on an interesting shift in the narrative built around the topic of migration and refugees. This new...
Globally, 15 million girls of primary school age will never learn to read or write compared to about 10 million boys. What are some ways of ensuring gender equality in education?
As soon as the seedlings are ready for planting, women in brightly coloured clothes wrapped at the waist load the new disease resistant varieties of coffee seedlings into the back of a truck. Developed at the Tanzania Coffee...
A team of oxen draws a plough over the red earth of the Zambian countryside cutting a neat line under the traditional practices of the past that in this village are being replaced by conservation agriculture, benefitting small...
Ever turned up at a party in jeans and your third-best t-shirt only to find it was supposed to be strictly formal dress? That feeling of blood draining from your body as you stand on your host's front step, emptying your pockets...
Opening ceremony Photo©FAO/Carlo Perla On Friday 16 December 2016, the event ‘Step It Up Together with Rural Women to End Hunger and Poverty’ took place at the headquarters of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Rome...
On the occasion of International Women’s Day and of the publication of a book* I contributed to, I’d like to share some insights on the challenges female entrepreneurs in the Middle East face every day and how we can address them...
By Julia Bicknell As we wound up the road through the mid-Atlas hills in Morocco and turned into the clearing where the abandoned monastery lay, my mind immediately turned to one of the most moving and powerful films I’ve ever...
On November 19, we'd like to welcome you to our hybrid Conference on anti-discrimination: increasing capabilities and cooperation between European and Korean CSOs, with the themes Gender Equality, Disability Rights and Migrants'...
