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GDPN explainers

21 September 2015

  • View of UN headquarters

    Your comprehensive guide to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals summit

    World leaders will pledge to tackle poverty, inequality and climate change at a historic event in New York. Here’s everything you need to know about it

9 September 2015

  • Two boys look out over a large relief camp run by The National Rural Support Program, and aided by Oxfam, UNHCR, Medecins Sans Frontieres, and Diakone at Charsadda on September 23, 2010.

    Foreign aid: which countries are the most generous?

    With Europe tussling over who is doing more to help refugees in the current crisis, we decided to take a look who gives the most... and the least

10 July 2015

  • Addis Ababa

    What to expect from the Addis Ababa Financing for Development conference

    Development economist Owen Barder gives an insight into what the coming five days of plenaries, roundtables and side events will be all about

11 June 2015

  • Kenyan port workers load relief food to a Somalia-bound ship at the Kenyan port of Mombasa

    Core Humanitarian Standard: do NGOs need another set of standards?

    Dubbed ‘the future of humanitarian accountability’, a new standard allows crisis-affected communities to hold the NGOs helping them to account

15 January 2015

  • green party

    What are the Green party's policies?

    As the Green Party historically overtakes Liberal Democrats, GDPN looks at their policies on development.

5 December 2014

  • Ban Ki-moon 4 Dec

    Ban Ki-moon: the secretary general strikes back

    On 4 December, the head of the UN delivered his verdict on the proposed sustainable development goals. Molly Elgin-Cossart tells Eliza Anyangwe what was said, and what we can expect to happen next

23 October 2014

  • malaria maps

    Real time maps could predict and prevent the spread of malaria

    Epidemiologists at the University of California are developing a tool that uses rainfall and other factors to forecast outbreaks, writes Katherine Purvis

2 October 2014

  • Fish farm in Chile

    Aquaponics: a sustainable solution to food insecurity?

    A system that produces nutritious food using less water could feed remote communities. But what about electricity access? Writes Charlotte Seager

12 September 2014

  • diagnose malaria

    Breakthrough in rapid diagnostics: using magnets to test for malaria

    Scientists have developed a quicker, cheaper and potentially more reliable way to improve disease diagnosis in rural areas

22 August 2014

  • Trachoma is leading cause of blindness in sub-Saharan Africa

    Can maps and mobiles prevent blindness?

    Trachoma, the leading cause of infectious blindness, affects 21m people. Could mobile mapping help? Alex Pavluck explains

20 August 2014

  • Malaria

    Man v mosquito: who is the most dangerous carrier of malaria?

  • biosecurity food

    Protecting produce: ten African countries get biosecurity investment

15 August 2014

  • ebola virus

    Ebola outbreak: the vaccine and 'secret serum' explained

    Could the serum contain the spread of the disease? Is the vaccine dangerous? Immunologist Professor Eleanor Riley talks to Anna Leach

24 July 2014

  • Human Development Report 2014

    Human Development Report 2014: findings explained

    The latest report from UNDP identifies educating women as the closest thing to a silver bullet in human development. Charlotte Seager finds out more

16 July 2014

  • Desmond Swayne

    Who is Desmond Swayne? Introducing Britain's new development minister

    Meet the former banker and war veteran navigating the world's most complex humanitarian issues on the UK's behalf

24 June 2014

  • Street children play on a roadside in Allahabad, India.

    Street children: will the UN comment put their rights in the fast lane?

    From Brazil to Kenya, NGOs react positively to new UN general comment on street children, but their work is far from done, Jo Griffin reports

3 June 2014

  • Digital jobs

    Will the $100 million Digital Jobs Africa project solve unemployment?

    The head of Rockefeller's initiative, Mamadou Biteye, explains how they can reach a million people through IT employment

21 May 2014

  • Valerie Amos, under-secretary-general and emergency relief coordinator, UNOCHA and Børge Brende, Norwegian minister of foreign affairs.

    The South Sudan conference explained

    Conflict and fears of famine have led donors to pledge $600m to South Sudan. Get the full story on the Oslo conference

12 May 2014

  • A boy recieves HIV treatment in Johannesburg, South Africa

    Task shifting explained: a viable solution to health worker shortage?

    A lack of nurses and doctors where they are needed is often lamented in development work. Is task shifting a solution?

1 April 2014

  • wheat field

    Global food security: could wheat feed the world?

    Donors, businesses and research groups have united to pledge to boost wheat yields by 50% in the next 20 years. Rob Dawson explains why and how

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