The hard part of a programme is rarely the information itself. It is the last step, where somebody has to understand it well enough to understand. If that is familiar, we would love to hear about it. The contact form is on our website. www.humanityinnovation.com#talk

How a custom book helped secure justice for South African gold miners. Facing a scattered, sick, and cross-border class action group, this team created a multilingual audio and print book to spread the word. Talk to us about your programme: www.humanityinnovation.com#talk

More than 45 million people face crisis-level hunger or worse in crisis-hit countries across the Near East and North Africa. @fao.org calls for urgent funding for emergency agricultural assistance to help families keep producing food and earning an income. 🔗https://bit.ly/47257rB

This book is printed in Xhosa, but it speaks three languages: Xhosa, Sesotho and English. We made it with Abraham's Kiewitz and Jubilee South Africa for the gold miners' class action. If you're working through the same language question, the contact form is on our site. www.humanityinnovation.com

Prototype audio players now in learners' hands, telling a school garden story in English and Yoruba. With Stem Garden Initiative, so every learner hears it in the language they think in. Early days, we're listening for what works. www.humanityinnovation.com#talk #EdTechAfrica #TechForGood

⏰ 2 days left to apply! The GFF x CIVIC VOICES funding opportunity closes Oct 7 at 23:59 EAT. Local civil society and youth-led organizations in 22 eligible countries can apply for support to advance domestic resource mobilization for RMNCAH+N. 🔗 https://bit.ly/4rA7ZVU

How we work: you own the content, translation & final wording, it's your credibility. We handle structure & the object. Illustration goes to a local artist. If you have a communication problem you have been turning over for a while, the contact form is on our site. www.humanityinnovation.com

A solar-powered book that narrates its own pages, helping Eastern Cape patients understand a new HIV treatment. Led by the Treatment Action Campaign; we helped make the book. Words: Nomatter Ndebele, photos: Thom Pierce. #HIVAwareness #GlobalHealth www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

A message from SEED... 🧡🇲🇬 Help us fill the gap this #WorldNGOday 🫶 #usaid #fundingcuts #aid #aidcuts #support #donate #fundraising #humanitarianaid #sustainable #environment #education #development #international #ngo #madagascar #seedmadagascar

Most briefs open with a specification. Good work opens with a problem you've been circling. It's what you're trying to get across, to whom, and what's been tried that matters. The contact form is on our site. Fifteen minutes is usually enough to tell whether there is something here.

We urge the US government to halt the ad hoc waiver system and allow for all critical humanitarian and medical assistance to continue as the administration reviews its foreign assistance priorities. www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/freez... #AidSky

Freezing US foreign aid will result in humanitarian disaster

The loss of services supported by USAID will affect millions of the world’s most vulnerable people.

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#Tuberculosis: We conducted the first within-trial cost-utility analysis of 6-month BPaL-based regimens (bedaquiline, pretomanid, and linezolid) for rifampin-resistant #TB. More about our findings below ⬇️ #IDSky #AidSky #MedSky

A programme can be well funded, carefully designed, and run by people who know their subject, and still come apart at the point where someone has to understand something in order to act on it. We make tools for that situation. we would be interested to hear where this sits in your work.

⏰ Today at #UNGA81: How do we deliver on the promise to reach 87 million people facing the greatest need? Governments, frontline organizations, humanitarian partners and the private sector come together on the action needed. 📺 Tune in live, 16:30 ET: https://bit.ly/4hcO4rf

Global health reform is back on the agenda this week at #UNGA81. But for reform to truly make a difference, health systems must work better for the people actually delivering and relying on care. Why reaching the last mile needs to be at the centre of global health reform: bit.ly/4An19XN

We began with Solar-powered books. Since then we've had some amazing projects with some wonderful people. Today we're beginning to share that effort more openly. If you just followed, thank you. Over the next few months we'll share what we've learned from past programs, and where we are headed.

USAID fallout: In Nepal, when the aid workers stopped coming, the women and babies started dying apnews.com/article/usai...

USAID fallout: In Nepal, when the aid workers stopped coming, the women and babies started dying

The Associated Press has found that the decision by the United States to slash its foreign aid funding last year has increased pregnancy complications and deaths in Nepal.

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In some rural Zambian clinics, a broken vaccine fridge used to mean waiting weeks for a technician to travel from Lusaka. Now, a newly trained network of over 120 local technicians is maintaining and repairing solar-power fridges and keeping immunisation services going strong: bit.ly/4gikFx8

With the world’s worst maternal mortality rate, Nigeria is turning to digital solutions. Devex talks to key implementers on the ground about a digital and community-based approach to strengthening maternal care.

The power of tech in transforming Nigeria’s maternal health care

The power of tech in transforming Nigeria’s maternal health care

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Together, Small International Development Charities Network (SIDCN) and @swidn.bsky.social are sharing a joint statement on our members’ fundraising outcomes, what they reveal about public support for global solidarity, and why this moment matters. We invite you to read the full statement.

Every girl has the right to feel safe at home, in her relationships and in her community. But too many are living in fear of someone they should be able to trust. This is a violation of their rights. We must protect girls from all forms of violence. Now. #GirlGoals

Shatyam Issur, member of the LAT CAB, will present on a Longevity publication at the International Conference on Health and Hepatitis in Substance Users on Friday, 10/17. Join us for our presentation on the results of surveys on a long-acting HCV cure. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In one corner of Nigeria’s Plateau State, vaccinators kept hearing the same word: “No.” Years of fear and rumours had convinced an entire community to reject immunisation. Then one trusted voice changed everything. 🧵

In times of crisis, girls are often the first to be pulled out of school and the last to return. Every girl has the right to learn, no matter where she lives or what she's been through. Education must be part of every emergency response. #GirlGoals

Hi everyone. Some exciting news. We are hiring an Assistant Professor in Public Policy here at Rockefeller College. We are pretty flexible on topic areas. We have a great team here and Albany is a great place to live. #econsky #academicsky Posting: albany.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

The next @aefpweb.bsky.social EdDev (Scholars of Education in Developing Countries) community group meeting is this Friday Oct 10, 11am-noon US eastern! Aanchal Bagga (Tufts) & Aatir Khan (Habib University) will present work in progress. Contact me for Zoom link. #econsky #edusky

It's time to rethink how we fund global education. Flexible, strategic donor investments designed to align with local priorities leads to impact. Let’s invest in what works. Read more from a recent op-ed written by myself and Hon. Madalitso Kambauwa Wirima: newafricanmagazine.com/31035/

Smart solutions needed to finance foundational learning - New African Magazine

It is time to refashion finance and strategy to equip every child with the foundational skills to learn, earn, and lead, because the future for all of us depends on it. Across many low- and middle-inc...

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She wants to help other people in her community learn using Hanifi too so they can be educated and equipped with skills for the future. Our upcoming Radio 4 Appeal will support children like Forjina, helping them learn in a language they understand. Find out more at: buff.ly/U2lOccJ

BBC Radio 4 Appeal: Education & Hope for Rohingya Children

Support Children on the Edge's BBC Radio 4 Appeal this October. Help provide vital education & safe spaces for Rohingya children in Bangladesh. All donations matched up to £25k.

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Children in the Kutupalong classrooms we support just love learning Hanifi. Forjina told us it's the thing she looks forward to learning the most. She practices lots to improve her abilities.