Sick Development Global Launch
Patients living in poverty in the Global South are being bankrupted by private healthcare corporations backed by multi-million-dollar investments from development finance institutions (DFIs) run by the UK, French, German and other rich country governments as well as the World Bank. Two new reports from Oxfam - Sick Development and First, Do No Harm - find that DFIs are investing development funds in private hospitals that are responsible for serious human rights abuses, overcharging, turning away patients unable to pay upfront, and profiteering during the pandemic. Join report authors Anna Marriott and Anjela Taneja, alongside a fascinating panel of other speakers to explore the report findings, and discuss the role of DFIs in the sector. You can read the reports here: https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/poor-people-being-bypassed-or-bankrupted-rich-countries-pour-development-billions
As part of the G2H2 Policy Debates, SID webinar on 23 Jan 2025 will explore overlooked aspects of the energy transition, emphasizing the essential steps for ensuring it is both sustainable and equitable, while also revealing the human health impacts of failing to act.
As part of the G2H2 Policy Debates, SID webinar on 22 Jan 2025 intends to shine a light on the WHO debates on the pandemic treaty, One Health and the fight against AMR, taking stock of the research work conducted in this area in past years.
The Society for International Development, in partnership of the Heinrich Boll Foundation and Strathmore Energy Research Centre, invites the public to register and the attend the upcoming hybrid Public Energy Futures Forum, under the theme, 'Nuclear Power Development in Kenya – A Low Carbon Solution or a High-Risk Gamble?' On Tuesday 3, December 2024, 1400 to 1700hrs (EAT Nairobi) at Daystar University, Nairobi Campus.
Join the conversations and insights from the panel of speakers at the continental agency level as we review negotiations of the Pact for the Future and map how those align with the aspirations of the AU Agenda 2063; and contribute to our mapping of what Africa’s future might look like post-Summit of the Future.