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Why is Support for Women’s Rights Rising Fastest in the World’s Cities?

December 20, 2017
Guest post by Alice Evans Support for gender equality is rising, globally. People increasingly champion girls’ education, women’s employment, and leadership. Scholars have suggested several explanations for this trend: (a) the growing availability of contraceptives (enabling women to delay motherhood and marriage); (b) domestic appliances (reducing the volume of care work); (c) cuts in men’s wages and the rising opportunity
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How do you make aid programmes truly adaptive? New lessons from Bangladesh and Cambodia

August 5, 2016
Following on from yesterday’s post on adaptive aid, a guest piece from Lisa Denney (left), Daniel Harris (middle)and Leni Wild (right), all of ODI (sorry layout’s gone so weird – it’s cos there’s so many of them…..) A swelling chorus of the development community has been advocating for more flexible and adaptive programming that can respond to the twists and turns of political reform processes.
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Horror and beauty, crazy climate, Pink Floyd in Phnom Penh and anyone for cricket? Final impressions of Cambodia

November 14, 2011
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Cambodia: community forestry v land grabs is more complicated than I thought

November 11, 2011
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Cambodia = Singapore or Myanmar? What does the future hold for a people still recovering from the Khmer Rouge?

November 10, 2011
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