As I stressed earlier in a blog post here, despite the unprecedented global momentum behind championing clean cooking, the challenge of sustained adoption remains formidable today, just as it was during the first wave of improved cookstove programmes in the 1970s and 1980s (see, for example, here, here, here and here). The adoption that counts, …
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One Cannot Mindset One’s Way Out of Structural Poverty
As I shared earlier here, ‘Without a deep and nuanced understanding of poverty, we cannot eradicate it.’ In many ways, this echoes the perspective of Strive Masiyiwa, who reminds us that ‘You CAN solve that problem… if you invest in knowing it deeply.’ In my continued efforts to contribute to a deeper and more nuanced …
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Empowering Youth, Building Nations: Reflections on Restless Development’s 40th Anniversary in Zimbabwe, hosted by the British Embassy in Harare
A couple of days ago, I had the privilege of attending Restless Development’s 40th anniversary celebration at the residence of the UK Ambassador to Zimbabwe. I am very grateful to Ambassador Pete Vowles and his incredible team for the multiple invitations that I have received to his residence. Each invitation offers me an opportunity to …
Poverty’s Stubborn Persistence, Clean Cooking and Climate Change: The 2025 Global Poverty Wake-Up Call that No One Can Afford to Ignore
Global poverty remains stubbornly persistent. The just-released 2025 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) report delivers a hard truth: the world is losing the war on poverty. In previous years, as I blogged earlier here, the number of people living in acute multidimensional poverty has hovered above 1 billion, and nothing much has changed today: 1.1 …
Carbon projects could indeed help end poverty, but only if they are rooted in the right poverty worldview
In my efforts to contribute to poverty eradication, I have heard stories of large sums of money being given to the poor and considerable support for livelihoods as a strategy for eradicating poverty. I have also witnessed significant investments in education, which is regarded as a key solution to poverty. I have observed, too, many …
The story behind our poverty scholarly article with 60 000+ views/reads
In May 2020, Dr Noor Hasharina Hassan (my doctoral supervisor) and I published a scholarly article on the characteristics or underlying qualities of poverty (available on open access here), adapted from the literature review of my PhD thesis. The article has garnered over 60 000 views or reads and has been cited 88 times. It …
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Blessing Gweshengwe PhD 