Environment
Women Climate Leaders
The government sector’s inadequate efforts to address climate change have spurred nonprofits like the emerging network Women’s Climate Centers International (WCCI) to take charge.
Tag: United Nations
Human Rights
Liberation Technology
LibertApp is proving how technology can be used to stop human trafficking and save lives.
Economic Development
Doing Development Differently
International aid must use different approaches to address the massive systemic problems it seeks to solve.
Human Rights
Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights as a Minimum Standard for Corporate Practice
By building strategic alliances with investors and shareholders, Indigenous Peoples are proactively protecting their rights by urging corporate respect of those rights in routine operations.
Human Rights
The Silent Pandemic of Violence Against Children
Together for Girls conducts research in collaboration with nations around the world to eradicate the systems that perpetuate sexual violence against girls.
Education
What Is the Civic University For?
Embedding action through research by placing the Sustainable Development Goals at the center of university planning. Part of the Innovating Higher Education series.
Nonprofits & NGOs
The Future of Humanitarian Action Is Local
The time has come for an action plan that fundamentally transforms the global humanitarian relief system by shifting power and funding from international to local and national actors. A feature story from the Spring 2020 issue.
Review
Technology
The Technology Treadmill
Peter Gluckman and Mark Hanson’s Ingenious applies concepts and metaphors from evolutionary biology to explain the impact of technological innovation on human life. A book review from the Spring 2020 issue.
Organizational Development
Creating a Culture of Innovation in the Humanitarian Sector
How organizations can create a culture that supports innovation, regardless of their size or complexity. The fourth of five articles in Humanitarian Innovation in Action, a series on innovation as a tool for change within complex institutions.
Organizational Development
Five Ethical Principles for Humanitarian Innovation
A pragmatic, “good enough” approach to experimentation in humanitarian contexts. The third of five articles in Humanitarian Innovation in Action, a series on innovation as a tool for change within complex institutions.