On November 26, 2020, Swati Banerjee, RLC Campus Mumbai Coordinator and Professor at the Centre for Livelihoods and Social Innovation, School of Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) gave an online lecture on “People-Centered Social Innovation – an Emerging Paradigm” at the Cusanus Hochschule für Gesellschaftsgestaltung. In her lecture, …
On January 28, 2021, Right Livelihood Award Laureate and Coordinator of the RLC Campus Córdoba Raúl Montenegro gave an online lecture on “Coronavirus, environmental crisis and wars: the three pandemics” at the Cusanus Hochschule für Gesellschaftsgestaltung. He analyses the various interconnections between the coronavirus, the environmental crisis and wars, which …
RLC Bonn junior researcher Dorothy Birungi has written an article on “Agricultural Cooperatives and COVID-19 in Southeast Africa. The Role of Managerial Capital for Rural Resilience”, together with Nicola Franscesconi (Royal Tropical Institute KIT) and Fleur Wouterse (Global Center on Adaptation GCA), which was published in Sustainability by MDPI. The …
A Statement by the Right Livelihood College Campuses in Face of Today’s Multiple Crises The Right Livelihood College (RLC) is a multicultural, plural and global capacity building initiative of universities and the Right Livelihood Foundation. Since 2009, the RLC aims to make the knowledge and work of Laureates of the …
The RLC Campus Santa Cruz and the Right Livelihood Foundation co-hosted a series of online conversations with Right Livelihood Award Laureates in spring 2020. If you have missed a conversation, we have collected them all below: April 19, 2020: Crisis & Opportunity: Building Solidarity Economics in the Age of …
Fighting the coronavirus outbreak is challenging in India, especially for the poorest slum-dwellers who cannot implement social distancing and need to work to survive. Drinking water, food and medicines are scarce. Udaan, a field action initiative for dignified livelihoods for marginalised women in the slums of Mumbai, initiated by the …
Raúl Montenegro, who received the Right Livelihood Award “for his outstanding work with local communities and indigenous people to protect the environment and natural resources” and who is the coordinator of the RLC Campus Córdoba, has written an essay on the two pandemics which we are faced with today; COVID-19 …
How to stay positive and keep activism going from home amidst COVID-19? The Right Livelihood Foundation has put together a collection of resources to help staying positive and active – even from home. Find the RLF inspiration kit here.
COVID-19 Pandemic: the emerging health rights issues in Nigeria and the rest of the worldby Fidelis Allen (RLC Campus Port Harcourt coordinator, Department of Political and Administrative Studies, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria) IntroductionThe COVID-19 pandemic has exposed, among others, the vulnerability of economies, politics, policy, transportation, globalization, and energy …
This article has been first published on the Center for Development (ZEF) Blog. COVID-19 hits Uganda: livelihood impacts and mitigation measures scrutinized by Teddy T. Nakanwagi and Dorothy Birungi Namuyiga The global COVID-19 pandemic has exposed a lack of capacities and resources on the part of many central governments, especially …
