by Hannah McNicol | Jan 22, 2026 | General
On a fundraising trip earlier this year, a donor stared listlessly out the floor-to-ceiling windows of her 17th floor office onto the Singapore skyline as we presented the results of a year-long mixed methods research evaluation. When it came time for the Q&A she...
by Hannah McNicol | Dec 15, 2025 | General
In July this year I attended the annual LANDac Land Governance Conference in Utrecht, the Netherlands. I was chairing a session, “Learning from SPARC research on gender and youth issues in farmer-herder conflicts and pastoral land governance”, and sharing my...
by Hannah McNicol | Dec 9, 2025 | General
How long have you been involved in the international development sector and what first inspired you to enter the sector? I have been involved in the development sector for just over three years through Positive Change for Marine Life’s Waste to Wealth program in Gizo,...
by Hannah McNicol | Nov 26, 2025 | General
Did you know that each year the Global South diaspora sends up to $590 billion USD in remittances back to countries in the Global South? This is in comparison to just $180 billion in Official Development Assistance (ODA), $70 billion in philanthropic outflows and $0.4...
by Hannah McNicol | Oct 22, 2025 | General
In August 2025, senior government and non-government experts from 8 countries across the region came together to discuss the current, fragile state of refugee protection at the Asia Dialogue on Forced Migration (ADFM). This forum was set up ten years ago by four...
