Kanji Watanabe, the senior Japanese bureaucrat who is the central character in Akira Kurosawa’s movie Ikiru, learns he has terminal cancer. After decades of stamping meaningless files, he realises he has achieved nothing satisfactory in his life. In one harrowing scene, he sits in the dark while his son and daughter-in-law discuss his death, not with ... Read moreAbout the author/s Galib Mahmud Pasha Galib Mahmud Pasha is a postgraduate student at the Australian National University. He is ...| Devpolicy Blog from the Development Policy Centre
Polopa means “go ahead, I will come after you”. It is the name given to the Polopa-speaking people of the Southern Highlands Province — a population of about 10,000 people living in the Erave local level government area. They live in nine council wards: Kerabi, Balowei, Tiri, Waraga, Waposale, Kele, Puputau (Mt Tawa), Sirigi and Sopuse. ... Read moreAbout the author/s Busa Jeremiah Wenogo Busa Jeremiah Wenogo is a Papua New Guinean development economist who specialises in issues relati...| Devpolicy Blog from the Development Policy Centre
The state of housing justice and public health is nothing short of a political polycrisis. A term defined as a “cluster of distinct crises that interact in ways that they and/or their effects tend to reinforce each other.” Michael D. Durham of Funders Together for Housing Justice used this term to describe the intersection of… The post Criminalizing Homelessness Will Make Everyone Less Safe appeared first on Neighborhood Funders Group.| Neighborhood Funders Group
The Democratizing Development Program (DDP) organizes funders to ensure all people live in a safe, affordable home. In the fall, DDP hosted a webinar that invited funders to examine how the economy’s housing system prevents people from living in dignified homes and the solutions that grassroots, power building organizations are creating. This article highlights three… The post Webinar Recap – Community Ownership Models to Support Housing and Land Justice appeared first on Neighborhood F...| Neighborhood Funders Group