by Hannah McNicol | Feb 18, 2026 | General
How long have you been involved in the international development sector and what first inspired you to enter the sector? I have always been fascinated with the world beyond our shores. When I was a child my Dad started a business importing food from all over the...
by Hannah McNicol | Feb 13, 2026 | General
“I noticed our contraceptive supplies dwindling – women kept asking us what’s happening. We had to tell them the US have cut everything. ‘But please, I don’t want to get pregnant,’ they say. All I can respond with is, ‘I’m so sorry.’” – Lilian, public health provider...
by Hannah McNicol | Feb 10, 2026 | General
In regions of Northern Kenya such as Isiolo, Marsabit, Wajir, Mandera, Garissa, Samburu, Turkana and Tana River, drought is not an abstract idea. It is counted in livestock lost, kilometres walked for water and children pulled out of school. Across these counties,...
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 Emily Umbers | Dec 17, 2025 | General
Interested in learning more about public health, health care or emergency response in international development? AIDN recommends…. Tuning into “Crisis & Resilience: HIV Care in Uganda Amid a Global Aid Funding Freeze” with Dr Pasquine Ogunsanya...
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...
