By Kate Hawkins, STEPS Centre member The past decade has witnessed a change in the public health funding landscape – with the rise of global health initiatives as well as…
AID FOR AIDS: HOW DO COMMUNITY GROUPS NEGOTIATE THE NEW FINANCIAL ARCHITECTURE?
BEYOND SCALING UP: PATHWAYS TO UNIVERSAL ACCESS
By Kate Hawkins, STEPS Centre member The STEPS Centre and our affiliate Future Health Systems are launching a series of activities that challenge the thinking behind prevailing concepts of “scaling…
What is ‘Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto’?
In 1970 the publication of a radical and controversial document helped shape modern thinking on science and technology for development. It was called The Sussex Manifesto: Science and Technology to…
Why is a New Manifesto needed now?
Standard policies link innovation, science and technology to development in ways that are not always the most sustainable and equitable solutions for the people they seek to help. As…
A new ‘3D’ agenda
Innovation, Sustainability, Development: A New Manifesto aims to challenge the mainstream models of science and technology for development that have become integral to government and international agency policy.
Elements of the New Manifesto
The New Manifesto will integrate lessons learned since the original with emerging perspectives to investigate current debates in science and technology for development.
Backstory
At the tail end of the 1960’s the United Nations asked for recommendations on science and technology for development from ‘The Sussex Group’ – a team from the Institute…
BLOG FROM THE SCIENCE FORUM 2009
By JULIA DAY, STEPS Centre member Former STEPS member Dominic Glover was blogging earlier this week for The Broker from the Science Forum 2009, in Wageningen, the Netherlands. Dominic, now…
TWITTER & THE IRANIAN UPRISING
By JULIA DAY, STEPS Centre member Like many, I have been following recent events in Iran with interest. The use of social media (Twitter, YouTube, Facebook etc) via mobile and…
KILLER DUST: NEW ASBESTOS REPORT
By JULIA DAY, STEPS Centre member STEPS member Linda Waldman has co-aurthored a new academic report commissioned by construction union UCATT. Linda and Heather Williams have uncovered huge deficiencies in…