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The 5th People's Health Assembly (PHA 5), held from 5 to 11 April, brought together over 600 activists from 60 countries, including health activists, indigenous advocates, and healthcare workers, for a critical dialogue on the future of global health.
In this report, civil society experts and academics highlight the urgent need to reshape and redirect financing towards prevention, preparedness and response to any future pandemics.
The Development Journal (edited by the Society for International Development and published by Palgrave Macmillan) is pleased to announce a call for papers for a special issue on “Tackling Debt Traps: Rethinking International Debt Architecture & Debt Sustainability Assessments."
Learn more about our press conference "Pandemic Treaty Negotiations: Perpetuating COVID-19 Failure?" held on March 12th which shed light on one of the most problematic topics of the Treaty: its financing.
The Society for International Development (SID) and the School of International Futures (SOIF) have partnered with a shared vision for a regenerative and intergenerationally fair future for Africa.
We urge Ministers to ensure that the outcome of negotiations on overfishing and overcapacity subsidies appropriately targets those historically responsible, safeguards small-scale fishers from subsidy prohibitions, refrains from WTO interference in conservation measures, and respects countries' sovereign rights under UNCLOS.
This publication presents monetary measures of inequality such as expenditure patterns of groups and non-money metric measures of inequality in important livelihood parameters like employment, education, energy, housing, water and sanitation to show the levels of vulnerability and patterns of unequal access to essential social services at the national, county and constituency levels.
The notion of ‘development’ has been the preconception of many governments, particularly those in the Global South. It has often been tagged with the connotation of ‘catching up’; that is, some countries were lagging and ostensibly needed to do more to develop