Farouk Shamas Jiwa

As the world inches closer to the 2015 target of the Millennium Development Goals, development practitioners across the globe are reflecting on the progress made against the MDGs as well as considering what the post-2015 global development agenda could look like. Which institutions, interventions, frameworks and partnerships have had the most success in alleviating poverty and are best placed to advance development? What are the transformative shifts to create a world free of poverty and achieve…

As an inaugural Global Youth Fellow of the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation, I have been extensively exploring the meaning and relevance of multiculturalism, diversity and the pluralism of identity for foreign policy. I grew up in Africa and have lived and studied abroad, travelled extensively and become an active member of Canadian society, so these issues are close to me…