Insights: Sightsavers' policy blog
Welcome to Sightsavers' policy blog! We hope you find these musings interesting, inspiring and thought-provoking but please note that these posts are the opinions of the author and contributors, meant to encourage debate and discussion, and not Sightsavers' official policy positions.
Cameron’s task: What should the High Level Panel on the Post-Millennium Development Goal framework actually do?
Now that the co-chairs of the UN High Level Panel on the post-Millenium Development Goal framework have been announced, what do they need to do?
World Water Day blog
Clean water and sanitation are included in the UN Millennium Development Goals. Budget 2012
There was no mention at all of international aid in today’s Budget statement by Chancellor George Osborne. That’s actually great news...
Combating Neglected Tropical Diseases: A good thing, whatever sector you work in
The 17 diseases which make up the collective now known as the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are, its pretty much agreed, a bad thing.
A major step forward in the fight against NTDs!
Monday 30 January 2012, may have been a normal Monday for many of you, but for those of us working on NTDs it was a truly momentous occasion.
Has aid effectiveness survived Busan?
Earlier this month, Ministers, bilateral and multilateral development agencies, and representatives from the private sector and civil society from developed and developing countries were meeting in Busan, South Korea, for the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness.
An Equal Start for All
On Tuesday 29 November, the All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) on Global Education for All and on Disability hosted the event ‘An Equal Start for All: Disability and Education in Low-income Countries’.
A tribute to Dr Dennis Williams, Sightsavers' Vice President
On Monday 24 October, Dennis Williams sadly passed away.
You might not know this, but today is World Sight Day
World Sight Day provides us with a great opportunity to highlight the importance of preventing avoidable blindness in developing countries.
Realising the human rights of disabled people?
Last week, I attended the Conference of State Parties (CoSP) to the Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) at United Nations Headquarters in New York.
What do you think?