It has been a whirlwind of a week for us. Despite being sleep-deprived and jet-lagged, we were buzzing with excitement. The UN LDC 5 Conference is being hosted at Qatar National Convention Center – a huge space serving as a boma (meeting place) for policy leaders, presidents, and NGOs.

These past three days of th

My favorite session of the U.N. LDC Conference day #2 was the session “Blending the Public and Private Sectors for Results in LDCs”. During day one of the conference, I attended a passionate Civil Society Forum that addressed the many shortcomings and disadvantages of the privatization of economies in LDCs.

The Pacific ALLIES team traveled to the Republic of the Marshall Islands after their time in Honolulu to conduct a series of community risk assessments about climate change related droughts on the outer islands and to look at the human factors that influence implementing solutions to these issues.