Looking for a project? Guest blogger Paul Basudde says introducing renewable energy as an alternative to kerosene, which is heavily used in places like his home country of Uganda, will improve [...]
The UK brings young people to the forefront of its development work with the DFID Youth Agenda. The Department of International Development (DFID)’s Youth Agenda, announced this month, [...]
Support sport for peace and development, says guest blogger Micheal Byaruhanga, because it is blind to differences and dependant upon, naturally, sportsmanship. Sport, like a smile, is a language [...]
Urban planning in developing countries gets a lot of attention, but youth involvement in this process, says guest blogger Lisa Nyamadzawo, is imperative to a successful city. The increasing urban [...]
The post-2015 development agenda, notes guest blogger Micheal Nelson Byaruhanga, works to achieve human rights for all people, but it must ensure that people understand their rights, too. The [...]
Indonesia is the biggest archipelago on earth, and it’s developing fast. We have more than 13,000 islands – beautiful islands, I might add. Indonesia is also called ‘a piece of heaven that [...]
A critical analysis of the urban-rural divide in youth unemployment by guest blogger Lionel Kpenou-Chobli. Africa has 200 million young people aged 15 to 24 years, more than 20% of the [...]
On June 16th 1976, between ten and twenty thousand South African school children walked from their schools to Orlando Stadium in Soweto, peacefully protesting for better standards in education [...]
The International Labour Organisation (ILO), an arm of the UN, conducted its first truly comprehensive report on forced labour. Its conclusions revealed a massive, multibillion-dollar industry [...]
The shadow economy is one of many names for it. You might hear it as working ‘off the books’ or ‘under the table’. Officially, it’s the ‘informal economy’, ‘underground economy’ or ‘non-wage [...]