Aug 7, 2015 | Blog, Economic Stability & Prosperity, Employment & Prosperity
Nonprofits looking to build capacities for innovative technical approaches to development face funding hurdles. Overcoming them requires more from the private sector than just funding. The promise of harnessing today’s innovation to chart a course for development to...
Aug 6, 2015 | Blog, Economic Stability & Prosperity, Employment & Prosperity, Governance Networks
Brendan Guy, Global Policy Fellow, Natural Resources Defense Council Stakeholders from governments, businesses, and civil society actors convened in Addis Ababa on July 15, 2015, to pledge funds, establish programs for the sharing of data sets, and develop technical...
Jul 30, 2015 | Health & Human Security, Health & Wellbeing
Over 450 million people are estimated to be suffering from mental illness globally—three quarters of whom live in the developing world—making mental health issues one of the the leading causes of disability on the planet. Yet mental illness remains steeped in stigma...
Jul 30, 2015 | Cities, Climate, Environment & Sustainability, Networked Institutions
C40 Cities continues its annual program to recognize leadership and best practices with an awards competition designed to draw attention to outstanding city-oriented actions that have achieved success in the challenging environmental context. The awards ceremony for...
Jul 29, 2015 | Climate & Planet Stewardship, Environment & Sustainability
As social media explodes with #CeciltheLion postings, and the Internet descends on the man who killed the magnificent animal, WildCRU.org (the organization monitoring the tracking collar that recorded the movements and behaviors of the popular lion) has moved past the...