Reports
324 killed and 10,000 stranded by Kerala flooding
Flooding in the Indian state of Kerala has killed 324 people with the death toll expected to rise. Torrential rains and strong winds have been affecting the country for three weeks and the region has 30%...
UNAIDS reports slow progress on the 2020 HIV targets
UNAIDS’ new report ‘Miles to go—closing gaps, breaking barriers, righting injustices’ has warned that countries are lagging behind the 2020 target for HIV reduction. The report highlights...
Urban farms have huge untapped potential to fight hunger
New research has shed light on the huge potential for urban agriculture to provide food security and sustainable development. Researchers at the Arizona State University (ASU) and Google analysed a...
World Malaria Report 2017: The Fight Against Malaria Has Stalled
Every two minutes malaria kills a child under five. Resulting from a single mosquito bite, malaria is a deadly, yet preventable and treatable disease. With several malaria prevention tools and treatments...
‘No Time To Retreat’ Report by UN OCHA
The reinforcement, rather than replacement, of local and national crisis management systems by international actors was the most reported area of progress by the participating stakeholders,...
Calling All Aid & Development Innovators in Africa
The Aid & International Development Forum is currently accepting nominations for the Innovator of the Year Award. This competition celebrates individuals, who have introduced game-changing initiatives,...
Reaching SDGs through Private Sector Partnerships
Presently, over half of partnerships with the UN involve only one private sector partner. Additionally, 79% of UN partnerships last less than five years. These factors have led to a lack of scalability...
Top 100 Twitter Accounts to Follow in African Aid & Development
In advance of the Aid and Development Africa Summit, AIDF has created a list of the Top 100 Twitter Accounts to follow in African aid and development. The list is comprised of 50 humanitarian...
Public-Private Partnerships in the Development Sector
A Devex report recently looked into five public-private partnerships between government development and aid agencies and private sector companies to address development issues around the world. The report...
Indigenous Africans Face Barriers in this Developing Continent
August 9th marks the annual International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. There are approximately 370 million indigenous people around the world. Indigenous people face more barriers than their...
ONE 2017 Data Report: Financing for the African Century
The continent of Africa is currently at a development impasse. As global aid patterns shift and African economies weaken from the drop in commodity prices, Africa’s development becomes stagnate....
United Nations Report on Sustainable Development Goals
Commenting on the recently published UN report on the progress of achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), UN Secretary-General António Guterres remarked that the “rate of progress in...
