Sustainable Development Goals: So What?
posted by Bangirana Albert
Amidst the backdrop of a souring refugee crisis in Europe and a stronger calls for reform to UN structures and strategies, the just-concluded 2015 UN Sustainable Development […]
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In the News: MDGs to SDGs and Development Summits
posted by Jolene McCall
In our ongoing coverage of the move from the MDGs to SDGs, including our recent “In the News” piece, “MDGs to SDGs – New Goals, Similar […]
Inclusion vs. Inequities Among NGOs: Evidence from Recent NGO Conferences
by Cecelia Lynch
Recent reports on humanitarian trends continue to beg the very important question of how and why paternalism in the aid industry continues. One of the major reasons, as […]
In the News: Serious Inequalities in the Humanitarian Industry
posted by Cecelia Lynch
The following report and articles detail how the big NGOs, both faith-based and non-faith-based, continue to rake in most humanitarian and development funding to the detriment of […]
In the News: MDGs to SDGs – New Goals, Similar Failings?
posted by Cecelia Lynch
Over the next several years, we will certainly hear and read a lot about the “SDGs.” People might understandably ask, “Whatever became of the MDGs?” Either we have […]
International Aid: Western Paternalism or a Moral Imperative?
Dear Readers: While we at the CIHA blog tend to be critical of aspects of humanitarianism and aid in Africa we also recognize its endurance as well as the goodwill […]
In the News: Sustainable U.S.–Africa Partnership
While the U.S.–Africa Summit met in Washington, D.C., last week, the world was reminded of several challenges faced by the African continent, as countries in West Africa battle the deadly […]
In the News: International NGOs at Risk?
Is funding bypassing NGOs from the U.S. and Europe and going directly to organizations based in the Global South? This is one of the theories described in a Guardian […]
Looking into Private Sector Involvement in Humanitarianism in Africa
The CIHA Blog tends to be critical of the argument that what Africa needs is more foreign private sector investment in humanitarianism in Africa (see here for the most […]