Since 1998, AAB has promoted core peace building activities, emphasizing the rehabilitation and reintegration of displaced people and ex-combatants through self help projects using participatory...
Recent estimates based on wealth index comparison indicate that poverty has worsened from 2005 to 2009. Burundi faces tremendous challenges in diversifying the economy and income sources, reducing...
Burundi is located in central Africa with 27834 Km2 and a population of over 8.1 million, with an annual population growth rate of 3.9% against an economic growth rate of 3.6%. Women represent the...
2011 was the year when the Arab spring took down dictatorships and inspired youth all over the world. It also inspired the International NGOs, and ActionAid now aims to mobilize 5...
The High-level Panel on Global Sustainability has released a report, Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A future worth choosing. Containing 56 recommendations, the report is aimed at guiding...
This briefing paper, produced ahead of the World Conference on Disaster Reduction, held in Japan in January 2005, outlines eight key strategies of people-centred governance and links these to the...
This report examines the impact of climate change on urban communities in six African cities, and looks at how people are coping with and adapting to increasingly frequent and severe episodes of...
The rivers are flowing and the grass is finally green in Kongelei, the pastoralist community in North Western Kenya. Here, I mostly meet women and children, as many men have left the villages in...
We, the US climate community, have, by and large, become so dazzled and distracted by the prospect of a climate treaty that we have overlooked the one thing that can really create lasting change:...
Some claim that Durban has opened a new ‘door’ to negotiate a more comprehensive legally binding agreement. But I would call it a debacle, where the deathbed of equity as a principle was prepared and...
