It is inevitable that disasters do happen. But new work by our legal partners considers how the law can be used to ensure that the international response is as swift and effective as possible.
A4ID’s global network worked with international human rights organization Equality Now helping them to realise the civil, political, economic and social rights of girls and women.
A4ID lawyers provided legal assistance to Hand in Hand, who work for economic and social empowerment by supporting the development of enterprises and jobs and the generation of higher incomes.
Lack of access to electricity isn’t just an inconvenience but a serious barrier to development. But legal support from A4ID is helping one NGO effectively address this problem across Africa.
On Monday we held our first Governance Knowledge Group meeting, and what a great way to kick off this series of seminars.
Over the last few weeks we have all seen the disturbing images of the impact of the food crisis on men, women and children in East Africa. In parts of Somalia the situation is especially desperate, with ever increasing areas being declared to be suffering from famine, the first time the ‘F’ word has been used since 1984.
At the beginning of my internship at A4ID I was asked to give a presentation about my experiences volunteering at a Tanzanian orphanage during my gap year. It may sound like a rather typical thing to do during a gap year but the reason for my trip, and the presentation, was that this orphanage was far from typical.
Our Twitter feed at A4ID has been buzzing with the latest news about the crisis in East Africa. The news hasn’t been good (and is apparently getting worse) as the response so far has been largely inadequate.
At 3:29 Pasca and I met François Germenne, climate change and migration expert, off the Eurostar from Paris. We decamped to the champagne bar (it was the only quiet place!) and sat down to interview him about the rise in so-called ‘climate change’ migration and the legal and policy challenges that this has brought up.