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1 River Basin, 9 Countries, 1 Vision
1 basin, 9 countries, 1 vision was in a brochure of one of the Council of Ministers meeting of the Niger Basin. The first time I saw that brochure I smiled as I right away thought about 9-1-1, the...
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New Ways to Measure Heat on Earth's Surface Could Revolutionize Agricultural...
Yesterday, on the eve of World Water Day, NASA and the United States Geological Survey released the first images from the thermal imaging band of its latest launch of the LANDSAT satellite. The...
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Water Cooperation at the National Level: The Case of Kenya
Dr. Robert Kibugi is a Legal/Institutional Expert for Ministry of Water and Irrigation in Kenya and a lecturer at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Environmental Law and Policy (CASELAP), University...
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From Water Pumps in Cambodia to Global Social Enterprise Support
Combining the experience of running the DM2006 award winning social enterprise: Ideas-at-Work (IaW), the knowledge acquired with the Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI) program (2007), and her...
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Youth in Tanzania: a growing uneducated labor force
Let's think together: Every Sunday the World Bank in Tanzania in collaboration with The Citizen wants to stimulate your thinking by sharing data from recent official surveys in Tanzania and ask you a...
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Women's Untapped Potential: Examining Gender Dynamics in Global Trade
Maria knows she is good at selecting ripe tomatoes, but she doesn’t know any women who own nurseries like the one where she works in Honduras. Susan does housekeeping for a hotel in Kenya, but there is...
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An Emotional Start to the 10th UN Forum on Forests
United Nations events, usually crowded with diplomats and technocrats, aren’t normally those which raise a lot of emotion – though there have been exceptions. I remember in particular the admonition...
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The Key’s in the Keyboard: New Technologies Can Help Enhance India's...
Agriculture in India still remains the main source of livelihood for the majority of the rural population and more importantly the small holding farmers. With an average annual growth rate of 3.3%, the...
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The Power of Mobile: Saving Uganda's Banana Crop
Bananas constitute 70% of the family food basket in Uganda. Through my work on the Uganda Agricultural Technology and Agribusiness Advisory (ATAAS) project, I learned that a devastating Banana...
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Can Tanzania achieve its Green Revolution?
Let's think together: Every Sunday the World Bank in Tanzania in collaboration with The Citizen wants to stimulate your thinking by sharing data from recent official surveys in Tanzania and ask you a...
View ArticleWhy Finance Ministers Care About Climate Change & Sustainable Development
If you want to fundamentally change how countries use energy, value their natural environments, or combat climate change, you have to talk to the people who hold the purse strings.That’s what we’re...
View ArticleAn Accounting System Worthy of Earth Day: Natural Capital Accounting
Video PlatformVideo ManagementVideo SolutionsVideo PlayerWhen presidents, prime ministers, and government ministers of more than 60 nations put their countries’ names behind natural capital accounting...
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Latin America: Should this Earth Day be different from others?
También disponible en español e portuguêsIt’s tempting to think that this is just another Earth Day – after all, it has been celebrated since 1970. But perhaps this year should be different, at least...
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Government Spending Watch - A New Initiative You Really Need to Know About
I’m consistently astonished by how little we know about the important stuff in development. Take the Millennium Development Goals – the basis for innumerable aid debates, campaigns, and negotiations. A...
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The View Across Haiti & the Need for Disaster Resilience
Available in FrançaisStanding atop a disused amphitheater in a disused airforce base, we could see over the surrounding area. On the right, a sea of shacks nuzzled together in hope and desperation. On...
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