2008 began as a year of possibility. The second half of this year marks the midpoint of our time allotted to meet the Millennium Development Goals; the midpoint of our quest to make aid more effective through the Paris Declaration; and the review of progress made so far in responsible financing for development since the […]
Nastasya Tay
Nastasya Tay is a freelance writer, television producer and photographer for various broadcasters and publications, including the AP, BBC and IPS.
In South Africa, she has managed communications for CIVICUS, the international civil society alliance, and the Reproductive Health & HIV Research Unit in Hillbrow. In her previous life as a political analyst, she managed several research projects at the Centre for Chinese Studies, an independent think tank for China-Africa issues.
Before her arrival in South Africa, she did many things in many places. She has worked for the Royal African Society in London; the UN International Tribunal for Rwanda, in Arusha, Tanzania; the London office of Human Rights Watch; the Policy and Advocacy division of the African Medical and Research Foundation UK; and as a researcher in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, evaluating aid expenditure in the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami.
She is a former Oxford PPEist and studied Politics & Southeast Asian Studies at SOAS.
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Reaching the summit? Aid ineffectiveness
Over the last week, all hotels in Accra have been booked out and streets closed to the chagrin of local taxi drivers, for the third time so far this year. The High Level Forum (HLF) on Aid Effectiveness – the third in its series – alongside the civil society Parallel Forum which aimed to prepare […]
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Families, closed doors and raps on the knuckles
So, the Burma saga continues. After recent events — September’s bloody crackdown on peaceful rallies in the South-East Asian country, global protests and a worldwide vigil outside various Chinese diplomatic missions — the monks took to the streets again. In the days following the October 31 rally in Pakokku, a number of attempts to solve […]