Contributor Guidelines
Submitting guest blogs is open to Global Washington’s members of the Atlas level and above. We value a diversity of opinions on a broad range of subjects of interest to the global health and development community.
Blog article submissions should be 500-1500 words. Photos, graphs, videos, and other art that supports the main themes are strongly encouraged.
You may not be the best writer, and that’s okay. We can help you shape and edit your contribution. The most important thing is that it furthers an important conversation in your field, and that it is relatively jargon-free. Anyone without a background in global development should still be able to engage with your ideas.
If you include statistics or reference current research, please hyperlink your sources in the text, wherever possible.
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By Deepanjali Shrestha
When the pandemic hit, violence against women and girls drastically went up in Nepal. In the first two months of lockdown, domestic violence cases increased by 65 percent.[1] To make matters worse, Covid restrictions made it difficult for women and girls trapped at home with their abusers to seek help, escape, or simply share their pain.
By Kati Collective
Photo credit: Creator: Hello World Copyright: Infidels Photo Agency
Health and education are inextricably linked. As the Covid-19 pandemic swept the globe, we saw waves of misinformation, misunderstanding, and lack of access to factual and helpful information.
While COVID-19 disrupted social and economic aspects of almost everyone’s lives—with women being disproportionately negatively impacted—the pandemic also advanced the field of digital health in many ways. World governments and multi-national organizations, recognizing the acute need to create digital tools for health education, rushed to respond which resulted in a proliferation of digital health services and tools. Continue Reading
By Paul Silver, March 2023
Overview: On behalf of Pangea, I, accompanied by my intrepid spouse, Christina Marra, visited our new (and first) grantee in Laos, Green Community Volunteers (GCV) for three days. Founded in 2009, by an ethnic minority woman, GVC seeks to empower communities on environmental issues such as biodiversity preservation.