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On World Population Day, ICPD Conference Reminds Us of Population’s Role in...
“The development agenda is discretionary and the human rights agenda is obligatory,” said Kitty van der Heijden, the ambassador for sustainable development in the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on...
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Faster-Than-Expected Population Growth in Many “Feed the Future” Countries
Cambodia to grow by nearly one-third by 2050; Kenya to more than double; Mali to swell to three times its current size. These were the population projections available when Feed the Future, President...
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Why Has the Demographic Transition Stalled in Sub-Saharan Africa?
In a recent post on the new United Nations population projections, I discussed the risk in assuming that countries in sub-Saharan Africa will progress through the demographic transition at a pace...
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Harnessing the Demographic Dividend: PRB’s ENGAGE Presentations Look to...
The demographic dividend – the idea that a decline from high to low rates of population growth can lead to dramatic economic gains – has become something of a buzzword in development circles....
View ArticleFlooding and Food Security in Trinidad and Tobago: Roger-Mark Interviewed for...
“Climate change is one of the greatest challenges that we are facing in today’s world; it is particularly important for us in the Caribbean and for a country like Trinidad and Tobago,” says ECSP...
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Prospects for Gender Parity in UN Peacekeeping Forces, Evaluating Girls’...
The Population Council’s annual report highlights new work from one of the largest organizations doing research on the lives of adolescent girls in the developing world. Of particular note is the...
View ArticleWhat’s Next in European Climate Diplomacy?
The original version of this article appeared on the Environment, Conflict, and Cooperation (ECC) Platform. At the end of June, the European Union Foreign Affairs Council adopted a set of conclusions...
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To Build Peace, Confront Afghanistan’s Natural Resource Paradox
There’s a popular saying in Afghanistan reflecting the value of water: “Let Kabul be without gold, but not without snow.” Living in a refugee camp across the border in Pakistan during the Soviet...
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Amid Perfect Storm of Climate Challenges, Can Aquaculture Net Food Security...
It is difficult to find a country feeling the negative impacts of climate change more severely than Bangladesh. Name any alarming, seemingly far off effect of a warming world being discussed in the...
View ArticleAs UN Debates Post-2015 Agenda, Women Deliver Development
The original version of this article, by Vicky Markham, appeared on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Impatient Optimists blog. It’s not often that we are presented with the perfect opportunity...
View ArticleDelivering Success: Scaling Up Solutions for Maternal Health (Report Launch)
Since 2009, the “Advancing Dialogue on Maternal Health” series, co-produced by the Wilson Center, Harvard’s Maternal Health Task Force, and the United Nations Population Fund, has been one of the few...
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How Effective Are International Efforts to Empower Women? Alaka Basu on...
“Everyone uses the word ‘empowerment.’ It’s now such an overused word,” says UN Foundation Senior Fellow Alaka Basu in this week’s podcast. “You are empowered if you have a choice of 10 different...
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Climate Change in a Growing, Urbanizing World: Understanding the Demography...
The effects of climate change are often conveyed through the lens of changing physical landscapes. Shifting weather patterns, the intensification of drought, flooding, and coastal erosion are all...
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Bringing Natural Resources to the Table: ELI, UNEP Launch New Environmental...
To date, despite their demonstrated importance in both conflict recovery and the risk of conflict recurrence, natural resources have been largely ignored or downplayed in post-conflict settings around...
View ArticleAnthropocene Visualized: Video Summarizes Key Findings of IPCC Fifth...
“Humanity is altering Earth’s life support system. Carbon dioxide emissions are accelerating; greenhouse gas levels are unprecedented in human history,” says a new video summarizing some of the most...
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Gender Gaining Ground at Climate Change Negotiations
Last month, more than 10,000 negotiators from 189 countries attended the latest UN climate change conference, known as the 19th Conference of the Parties, or COP-19, this year held in Warsaw. To many,...
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Challenging Patriarchy: The Changing Definition of Women’s Empowerment
As more organizations in the international development community commit themselves to supporting women’s empowerment, it has grown increasingly difficult to evaluate what that really entails. [Video...
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“Childhood Must Never Be Derailed by Motherhood”: Dianne Stewart on UNFPA’s...
Twenty thousand girls under the age of 18 give birth each day, according to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). Two million girls age 14 or younger give birth each year. Societal norms often...
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Facing the Challenge of Adolescent Pregnancy: ‘State of the World Population...
Twenty thousand girls under the age of 18 give birth every day, and 90 percent of these births occur within the context of marriage, according to the UN Population Fund’s latest State of the World...
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“Essential to Prosperity and Opportunity”: Heather Boonstra on Adolescent...
“If girls and young women are often thought of as the forgotten drivers of development, their sexual and reproductive health is almost entirely absent,” says the Guttmacher Institute’s Heather...
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