We’re hiring a Communications Intern for the fall

Position Description: Our ideal candidate will play a key support role for outreach and communication needs for the Indaba platform. You will be reporting to the Indaba Projects Director helping the team research, collect and reach-out to new target markets.  As a small team, we work in a very collaborative environment and even though you will have a distinct…

Open Goals

By Alan Hudson — July 23, 2014.  The process of developing goals and targets to replace the Millennium Development Goals reached another milestone last week with the publication of the Outcome Document from the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Chairs of the Open Working Group and the representatives from Member States…

Why the G20 should act on Open Data

By Alan Hudson — June 20, 2014.  The C20 Summit – the key civil society gathering in the run-up to the G20 Leaders’ Summit in November – is currently taking place in Melbourne, Australia. Top of the agenda at the C20 Summit are four sets of issues: Inclusive growth and employment; infrastructure; climate change and…

Post-2015: What’s the Story?

By Alan Hudson — June 16, 2014.  Earlier this month, the UN Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals published the “zero draft” of proposed goals and targets on sustainable development for the post-2015 agenda. They will be discussing this draft at the UN this week (16th June), in the penultimate meeting of the Open…

Stop Targeting Hungarian NGOs!

Since its re-election, the Hungarian government launched a campaign attacking the credibility of Hungarian NGOs and are striving to gain controlling power over their funding distributed independently from the government. We believe that a dynamic and independent civil society plays a fundamental role in a democratic society, as it is one of the key checks and balances to governing power.…

Inaugural Environmental Democracy Index

By Michelle Byamugisha and Monika Shepard — June 5, 2014.  Over 20 years ago, Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development proclaimed: “Environmental issues are best handled with the participation of all concerned citizens, at the relevant level.  At the national level, each individual shall have appropriate access to information concerning the environment that…