Alex Farrow is in Brazil attending the Rio+20 conference. Rio+20 is the informal name for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development and is happening 20 years after the Earth Summit in 1992. World leaders (Nick Clegg & Caroline Spelman for us) will be attending the negotiations at the end of June and the conference will provide us…

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This week, as talks continue between NGOs for a new joint campaign, The Guardian published ‘Lessons from Make Poverty History.’ Kirsty McNeill – who served on the co-ordination team of Make Poverty History before joining N0.10 as an advisor – gave her reflections on  the campaign’s strengths and weaknesses. Strengths: Populism. If your theory of change is based on getting huge numbers…

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