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Sustainable Development Goals and Chinese New Year Chinese New Year is about celebrating abundance and wealth; commit to advocating for the Sustainable Development Goals to your family! At the same time, learn new Chinese New Year greetings to impress your elders. SDG 1 : No Poverty 阖家幸福 (hé jiā...

How can digital technologies help transform education systems and prepare students for the future? And, how can we institutionalize and scale up digital learning and narrow down the digital divide for the most marginalized children? These were questions posed at the virtual High-Level Ministerial...

Y-Wang, who worked for over 10 years as a medical doctor in China serving people with disabilities, writes about how the challenges those with diability face in China, including the educational challenges that children with disabilities face. Access the blog through: https://www.chinasource.org...

In the past, Myanmar had not allowed the teaching of the ethnic languages of the country, punishable by jail. To accelerate a policy of “Burmanization,” the military regime adopted Burmese as the official national language and forced schools throughout the country to employ it as the language of...

In "Celebrating Gender Transformative Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Vietnam," Elaine Mercer discusses barriers to women's access to hygiene and water and how WASH programming can support gender equality between men and women, boys and girls. https://www.ids.ac.uk/opinions/international-womens-day...

Gender stereotypes and cultural norms are the hardest to tackle when it comes to sustaining the impact of development interventions in China. In fact, project leaders have reported that even though women have benefited from social and economic empowerment, traditional gender stereotypes persist. For...

This blog addresses China's flawed policies towards women in which women and girls continue to suffer from discrimination. Maylin Meisenheimer is a research associate for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Being a woman is hard, but being a woman in China is getting harder. In some...

This blog highlights the progress that has been made in Cambodia to empower women and girls and narrow the gender gap. Most Cambodians continue to maintain biased ideologies on domesticity. According to a UN national survey, 92 percent of females and 82 percent of males believe that a woman’s most...