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Blog Post
May 23, 2016
I set out to better understand the link between ethnic politics and the local response to Ebola, and what I found was stark. There is a clear link between the political prominence of certain areas and their incidence of Ebola: the more political elites that come from a district, the lower its suffer...
TESTIMONY
April 08, 2016
On April 7, 2016, CGD’s vice president for programs and director of global health policy Amanda Glassman testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health Policy at a hearing examining progress made in addressing the West Africa Ebola epidemic and its s...
Blog Post
March 11, 2016
If you thought there was one Sustainable Development Goal about gender, you’d be right, but not entirely. SDG 5 is the “gender goal” (“Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls”), but gender equality and women’s empowerment are crucial to develo...
Blog Post
January 04, 2016
The importance of ID for empowering women and girls is spot-on, but so far discussions about identification and gender haven’t given equal attention to the other side of the equation. And new data shows that when it comes to identification and gender equality, we encounter a two-way street. Id...