Tag: ActionAid
What kind of Tax Campaigning works best in developing countries – top down or bottom up?
Tax Justice has become a big deal among a range of NGOs, including Oxfam. There’s a lot of global campaigning on things like tax havens and tax evasion by transnational corporations, but what kinds of campaign make sense at a national level in countries like Vietnam and Nigeria? Two new pieces dropped into my inbox […]
Read More »FEAR/LESS: Standing with women and girls to end violence
Lucia Fry, ActionAid UK‘s Head of Policy, introduces a new report Listening to the news yesterday, I grimaced as I heard about the latest episode to unfold in the story of the schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in Northern Nigeria last year: according to news reports, captive girls are being recruited as torturers and combatants […]
Read More »Good news on aid: dependency is falling, and quality (slowly) improving (but France is still rubbish)
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Bluesky-tastic: comparing three future trends papers on the international system and INGOs
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Which governments are best/worst at ending hunger?
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