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A wrap up of the 48th Pacific Island Forum Leaders meeting
The meeting’s theme, the ‘Blue Pacific’, was unsurprising given this year’s focus on oceans.
New UNDP administrator looks to define agency's value, create fresh strategic vision
As the entirety of the United Nations eyes reforms, the United Nations Development Programme is waiting on how those changes might dictate its future.
Oxfam Press Release: The two realities of climate politics
Climate change is bigger than politics and bigger than electoral cycles – New Zealand can and must lead the charge against it.
The rise of social enterprise in New Zealand
With the Social Enterprise World Forum in Christchurch from September 27 – 29, The Spinoff is examining the way the sector is changing our economy.
Doing good well: Why America's overseas aid agency needs reform
Aid programmes are bogged down by a byzantine regulatory structure
A country called Kurdistan?
Weeks ahead of an independence referendum for Kurds in Iraq, IRIN finds the would-be nation divided and cynical.
U.N. provides Cuba with food aid after Irma rips up coast
The United Nations' World Food Programme said on Saturday it was launching a $5.7 million operation in Cuba to help feed nearly 700,000 people in areas most affected by Hurricane Irma.
Who are the Rohingya and what is happening in Myanmar?
The Guardian provides a useful run-down of the background to the ongoing conflict in Myanmar as tens of thousands flee to Bangladesh.
Party promises for international development: New Zealand election 2017
In the final week before the 2017 election, Jo Spratt looks at what the parties are saying about international development.
Rohingya refugees overwhelm aid groups in Bangladesh
Aid groups in Bangladesh say the recent influx of Rohingya refugees has exhausted relief supplies and pushed existing refugee camps to the breaking point.
