2 June 2021: Tomorrow (Thursday 3 June) I interview Nigel Sizer, Chief Global Alliances Officer of the Rainforest Alliance at the Reuters Responsible Business Conference 2021 about the need to transform the relationship between business and biodiversity. The Rainforest Alliance … Continue reading
19 May 2021: The attached presentation was given online by colleague Samuel Hyde and I to the Cadence Roundtable in May 2021. In it we give: a) an overview of the UN security council debate on climate change and global … Continue reading
4 January 2021: A new report An unsettled past, an uncertain future provides a summary of the findings of a pilot study of children on the move using the Southern Route in Eastern and Southern Africa. I authored the report … Continue reading
2 December 2020: I have authored a new UNICEF case study and lessons learned on Cyclone Idai and the integration of multisectoral communication for development (C4D) interventions into the 2019 humanitarian response in Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. C4D was successfully … Continue reading
13 October 2020: I recently had the pleasure to edit and provide gender inputs to three reports by UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office (ESARO): The Climate Crisis: Climate Change Impacts, Trends and Vulnerabilities of Children in Sub-Saharan Africa … Continue reading
3 August 2020: Having written the summary report in March for Accelerating the agenda for child rights in Africa: 30 years of the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, the COVID-19 pandemic took hold, with a … Continue reading
21 July 2020: I was part of a team conducting a synthesis of World Food Programme (WFP) policy evaluations. The report brings together evidence and lessons to inform ongoing consideration of the WFP policy cycle and function. Syntheses are issued to … Continue reading
25 May 2020: I have written 5 poems as part of a really engaging ecopsychology course by the Natural Academy in the UK, based on an exploration of Bill Plotkins the Wild Mind (map right). I have used poetry before, … Continue reading
25 April 2020: As the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (ACRWC) mark 30 years, the UNICEF Evaluation Office, in partnership with the UNICEF Office to … Continue reading
19 April 2020: I joined the Portraits for a collaborative lockdown song. Recorded in 25 different homes and gardens, mainly focussed around England’s south western counties of Somerset and Cornwall, but also including performances from Indiana, USA, La Rochelle, France, … Continue reading
