Rural Energy Poverty – A threat to the environment and women
When we think about the term Energy Poverty, we picture households in the dark, without electricity. These households tend to be in the developing world,…
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03-05-2015Barriers to Humanitarian Response
Over the past few decades, the nature, place and understanding of humanitarian response has evolved significantly. In an ever-shrinking globalized world, there is now a…
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16-02-2015A Measure of WASH Sustainability: Findings from Ethiopia
The Howard G. Buffett supported Global Water Initiative (GWI) has been operating in Ethiopia since October 2007 supporting service delivery to improve water and sanitation…
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22-12-2014Integrating Technology in WASH Monitoring
Over the past two decades, the global water sector has made great strides in reducing the number of people without access to safe drinking water…
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13-12-2014
2014: The Playlist
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29-11-2014The Economic Impact of the Ebola Crisis
Introduction Epidemics and other health crises in Africa continue to take a massive toll on human life and social fabric. Outbreaks of Cholera, Smallpox and…
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08-08-2014Life in Mbokop, Cameroon
It was my second time in Mbokop, and unlike the first time, I traveled there alone to this remote community in NW Cameroon. It hasn’t…
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22-07-2014Laying the framework for Water and Sanitation Sustainability
Driving through the hustle and bustle of Lusaka, it is really hard to imagine that the vast majority of this country live in rural communities….
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09-07-2014Help Bring Sustainable Energy to Madagascar
BioD is a novel technology that addresses deforestation and air pollution while saving families time and money. We are team BioD and we’ve invented a household-sized…
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03-07-2014The Gender Gap in the Digital Divide – Gender and ICT
Although from observations and anecdotal evidence, we have “known” of the existence of a gender gap in information and communication technology (ICT), there has been…
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17-06-2014Why save an Endangered Language?
Languages fascinate me. Not just the ones that are widely spoken like Spanish or Swahili, but more obscure ones that are spoken by few. Having…
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10-06-2014Statistics on Water & Sanitation Failures
The above graph shows the trend in the average global failure rate for water points in developing countries. It was compiled from a painstaking analysis of over…
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05-06-2014The Gambia, as I saw it
It’s very easy to miss The Gambia on a map of mighty Africa. The smallest country in mainland Africa is but a sliver of land,…
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23-05-2014A walk through a Hospital in Rural Gambia
As part of Hand in Health and Books for Africa’s project to expand ICT in The Gambia, I had the chance to tour the Sulayman…
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19-05-2014Information and Communication Technology for Development
Today’s mobile phones, even those basic brick-like “non-smart” ones, have more computing power than the Apollo 11 computer that put a man on the moon…
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03-05-2014In Between Politics and Humanitarian Agendas: UNRWA and Palestinian Statehood
Abstract The United Nations Work and Relief Agency (UNRWA) is the oldest, most-established and perhaps the most successful international humanitarian operation in the world. It…
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06-04-2014A traveler’s guide to Dhaka, Bangladesh
Dhaka is so much more than just a city. It is a whirlpool that pulls anything and anyone that comes close to it – sending…
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07-03-2014CREER – A Partnership between Rincon, Panama and EWB-DC
Three years ago, I traveled to the community of Rincon in the Ngöbe-Buglé Comarca of Panama to visit my friend Gillian, who was working there…
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25-02-2014The Impact of the Syrian Crises on Palestinian Refugees
As Syria witnesses what has evolved into a full-blown civil war, the Palestinian refugees in Syria are in a particularly precarious position given their refugee…
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29-10-2013Gender in Development : A Case Study of Bangladesh
Headlines and reports would have us believe that women have reached gender parity in Bangladesh. The female under-five mortality rate is 20 per cent lower…
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16-07-2013The Trayvon Martin case – one small trial, one big societal question
On the night of February 26, 2012 one 17-year-old African American high school student, Trayvon Martin was fatally shot by a member of the neighborhood…
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