Get your teeth into development issues. Opinion and comment from Progressio

Lizzette Robleto Gonzalez, Progressio's Latin America and Caribbean Policy Officer, considers whether the re-started Bilateral Mixed Commission can bring economic growth and peace. Hispaniola is an...
Lizzette Robleto Gonzalez
19/08/2010 - 10:57
Heather Li, Progressio's Millennium Development Goals Advocacy Intern, reflects on the connections between the coming Papal Visit to the UK and the UN Millennium Development Goals Review Summit in...
Progressio
17/08/2010 - 15:37
Tim Aldred, Progressio's Advocacy Manager, on the latest plans by the government to get the public's involvement in defining development priorities. Here at Progressio we have been following closely...
TimAldred
17/08/2010 - 14:51
Lizzette Robleto, Progressio's Latin America and Caribbean Advocacy Officer, relfects on what it means to 'build back better' in Haiti. Life in Haiti is slowly getting back to a relative normality...
Progressio
05/08/2010 - 11:08
Since the coalition government was elected back in May, we have been watching with interest to see how UK development policy may change. For avid aid-watchers, there has been an interesting setting...
TimAldred
03/08/2010 - 10:36
It is a bold and positive step for the coalition government to commit to protect spending on international development and to reach the 0.7% target on “overseas development assistance” by 2013. The £...
Progressio
26/07/2010 - 15:36
So that was it. Blink and you’d miss it. It was the moment we’d all been waiting for, the focus of our campaigning all summer. The logging vote. "With this, we are sending a signal to the world that...
Daniel Hale
08/07/2010 - 11:34
  I thought I’d start blogging about logging! That’s probably the worst and only gag I’m going to make this time. A few people have been asking how the latest action (to MEPs) fits with the...
Daniel Hale
28/06/2010 - 12:47
Reading this online? Thanks. You can be sure that no trees have been hurt in the making of this blog. Call me a tree hugger? Well if you must. I’m definitely not a hippy but I have been taken aback,...
admin
16/04/2010 - 14:50
Soon after January 12th, I found myself crossing the border into Haiti before dawn, in the midst of a vast convoy of lorries carrying relief supplies. It is just a two hour drive from the border to...
admin
12/03/2010 - 15:45