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SID joins more than 50 human rights organizations, nonprofits and international development experts calling on the World Bank to investigate its health-care investments in Africa and Asia, citing Bloomberg News articles about alleged patient abuses.

SID joins over 150 global economists in a powerful joint statement urging the international community to hold the Israeli government accountable for the past two years of unimaginable destruction of human life, communities and futures in Palestine.

The Society for International Development (SID) joins impactful coalition of diverse actors in Sri Lanka for the 3rd Nyeleni Forum - which began on September 6 and ends on 13, 2025, to discuss and propose solutions and priorities for the next twenty- five (25) years of the collective struggle for food sovereignty.

Society for International Development (SID) with the support of the Heinrich Boll Foundation East Africa, hosted a Virtual Public Energy Forum themed, ‘Impact of the Kenya Renewable Energy Feed-In Tariff Policy’ On Thursday 7 July 2022. 

The Energy Reference Group members comprising of expert policy makers, energy leaders, practitioners, private sector, civil society and media representatives convened in Naivasha to share and deliberate upon the policy, financial and market barriers to renewable energy in Kenya. 

This Public Energy Forum brought together expert panelists to highlight the issues around energy access, efficiency and affordability in Kenya.

The article, written by Nicoletta Dentico, SID Director of the Health Justice Programme, exposes hunger stripped of euphemisms and humanitarian clichés, but as a brutal weapon of war and control, from Gaza to Sudan, demanding we confront its political roots.

The Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples’ Mechanism (CSIPM) of the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) will not participate in the upcoming UN Food Systems Summit +4 (UNFSS+4), at the end of July 2025, or its preparatory processes. This decision reflects a collective assessment that no meaningful changes have been made to the Summit’s direction, governance and safeguards against corporate influence since 2021.