Christine Allen writes about her meeting with Pope Benedict XVI on the first day of his visit to the UK
It was a bright, sunny morning in Edinburgh and I thought I was still dreaming when I awoke to…
Progressio, 17th September 2010
Millennium Development Goals Campaign Intern Kate Hartley shares her thoughts on the importance of the MDG Review Summit.
‘Where will you be in five years time? What will you be doing? Do you have a…
Progressio, 20th August 2010
Lizzette Robleto Gonzalez, Progressio’s Latin America and Caribbean Policy Officer, considers whether the re-started Bilateral Mixed Commission can bring economic growth and peace.
Hispaniola is an…
Lizzette Robleto Gonzalez, 19th August 2010
Heather Li, Progressio’s Millennium Development Goals Advocacy Intern, reflects on the connections between the coming Papal Visit to the UK and the UN Millennium Development Goals Review Summit in…
Progressio, 17th August 2010
Tim Aldred, Progressio’s Advocacy Manager, on the latest plans by the government to get the public’s involvement in defining development priorities.
Here at Progressio we have been following closely…
TimAldred, 17th August 2010
Lizzette Robleto, Progressio’s Latin America and Caribbean Advocacy Officer, relfects on what it means to ‘build back better’ in Haiti.
Life in Haiti is slowly getting back to a relative normality…
Progressio, 5th August 2010
Since the coalition government was elected back in May, we have been watching with interest to see how UK development policy may change.
For avid aid-watchers, there has been an interesting setting…
TimAldred, 3rd August 2010
How do you follow a failure? That’s the question facing the world after the Copenhagen climate summit. It’s also a question vexing development charities which spent lots of time and money …
Daniel Hale, 30th July 2010
It is a bold and positive step for the coalition government to commit to protect spending on international development and to reach the 0.7% target on “overseas development assistance” by 2013.
The £…
Progressio, 26th July 2010
I had heard that Vandana Shiva, the world-renowned Indian environmental activist, was something of a force of nature herself. And so it proved when I had a few minutes to quiz her when she…
Keith Ewing, 26th July 2010
