Guess what dominated the blog this week? Likes I Liked; book review of 'Plagues and the Paradox of Progress'; Why Abortion is becoming more available and safer everywhere; What Covid-19 responders can learn from Ebola; Coronavirus and the Global Education Emergency

International Women's Day listening and reading; Links I Liked; How to influence in Whitehall; the Pope's Love Letter to the Amazon; the global Sand Grab

New research on Southern CSOs; How to do Governance Diaries; Fascism in India; avoid the word 'empowerment'; Can Sen and Nussbaum inform the aid debate?; A Global Britain to be proud of; social enterprise in Nepal and Saleemul Huq on 30 years of climate change talks and what happens next

Veteran climate change activist Saleemul Huq reflects on nearly 30 years of climate change negotiations (he's attended all of them) and what needs to happen next.

Summary of the week's posts on the From Poverty to Power blog: Links I Liked; women, seeds and resilience in Kenya; The Far Right's problem with gender and masculinity; Islamophobia in the Balkans; 11 recommendations for working on empowerment and accountability in messy/dangerous places

15m run through of the week's FP2P posts: Links I Liked; the links between inequality and human rights activism; top tips for jobs in aid and development; what's it like being an African student at LSE and the president of the African Studies Association of Africa on decolonizing Academia. Enjoy.

Interview with the President of the African Studies Association of Africa, Akosua Adomako Ampofo. We cover family life, the research system and her brilliant advice to old white guys like me.

I talk you through this week's posts on From Poverty to Power: Colombian activists using arts and music to tackle climate change; David Milliband's list of the ways conflict is changing; a funky new Oxfam guide to 'market-based programming'; some thoughts on how academics can help practitioners (rather than just slag them off) and some painful conversations about the gulf between civil society organizations and the ultra-poor and the implications for aid.

I talk you through this week's posts on the blogs, including powerful overviews of two big global killers(mainly in poor countries)- road traffic and pneumonia, plus future megatrends, a phony war on inequality stats, and yet more #Swedow (Stuff We Don't Want). But this time the 'beneficiaries' are fighting back with humour.

I talk you through the week's blogposts on From Poverty to Power: pitching feminist economics at Davos; what makes Developmental Leaders? Pockets of State Effectiveness under the microscope; Martin Luther King on activism and White Moderates; Ynis Isimbi on a successful campaign to remove the tampon tax in Rwanda