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British Council's Jo Slack sits down to talk to three women from Pakistan about our two different societies and what it means to be involved in the Women of the World festivals.

Watch Bettany Hughes visit #CulturalProtectionFund projects in two new documentaries commissioned by the British Council

Visit our London headquarters between April - August 2019 to explore our new exhibition on the Cultural Protection Fund.

Read Culture and International Development: Towards an Interdisciplinary Methodology, a literature review on culture and development and a proposal for a future methodology.

Find out more about the key themes and recommendations from the On the Brink of Change Forum, a part of Create Syria.

Ruth Gould (DaDaFest) talks about Disability Arts - as a genre, how it challenges systemic barriers, and six actions organisations can take to lead to change.

A new thought piece written by The Change Collective to explore the links between UK arts and international development from a practitioner’s point of view.

Matt Peacock, Director of the international homelessness movement With One Voice, talks about the arts and homelessness, and learning from international collaboration

A blog and provocation by Shelagh Wright and Peter Jenkinson on doing development differently.

The British Council partnered with OECD on a new conference on the use of culture in local development in December 2018. Find out more here.