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If, When and Whom to Marry: Young Women Choosing Their Best Future of Health
It is perhaps easy to envision what should constitute quality health care for all people. What about choice in what quality health care means per person, according to what one wants for their lives? When a person reaches the age of adolescence, they become more aware of how their surroundings and choices affect their future.…
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Gender Focus: The Promise for Self-Reliance from a Transformed USAID
The DC community of civil society organizations (CSOs) has been buzzing, often in direct engagement with USAID, about the current USAID transformation. It seems promising and the timing could not be better, but given that the majority of the world’s poor are women living in patriarchal societies, will it deliver on gender? The Agency has…
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Keeping it Real for Migrants and Refugees
By: Mary Kate Costello and Maurice A. Bloem Get real, yo. This was the concluding summary of an important event about migration and refugees held during the United Nation’s 2017 High Level Political Forum. Executive Vice President of Church World Service, Maurice A. Bloem, determined in his closing remarks that the global community needs to…
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Advocating for Youth Leadership to Achieve the SDGs
In keeping with The Hunger Project’s priority to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals through community-led development, advocacy for youth leadership and engagement has been at a forefront. The Hunger Project took a leading role in both the United Nation’s 6th Annual Youth Forum and the Winter Youth Assembly at the United Nations at the beginning…
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Youth Leadership and Voice in Post 2015: UN Resolution 2250
It is not new knowledge that half of the world’s population is made up of persons under the age of 35, the majority of whom are youth older than 15. As the expiration of the Millennium Development Goals near, the world will be responsible for achieving sustainable development within only fifteen years. In the absence…
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IFPRI and The Hunger Project feature ODESZA in 2015 Global Nutrition Report Video
The official video for the 2015 Global Nutrition Report (GNR), featuring popular electronic music group ODESZA‘s song Kusanagi, launched on Monday, November 9th. The video summarizes key messages about global malnutrition and its effects on strong development. Produced by The Hunger Project’s Policy Analyst, Mary Kate Costello, the video features imagery and video donated by The Hunger…
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Sustainable Development by 2030 Requires Community-led Development
“For us, then, to reach our twin goals, three things have to happen—inclusive economic growth, investment in human beings, and insurance against the risk that people could fall back into poverty. Grow, invest, and insure: that’s our shorthand for it…We reject “trickle-down” notions that assume that any undifferentiated growth permeates and fortifies the soil and…
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Making the Case for Investing in Nutrition with CONCERN Worldwide
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Financing Community-led Development: Putting People First
The United Nations’ much anticipated Third Conference on Financing for Development (FfD3) has come and gone. Over four days, more than 6,000 high-level development actors gathered to discuss the needs and means to finance the implementation of the Post 2015 Development Agenda. What was declared as the final draft of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda (AAAA) left…
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Financing for Development – Civil Society Forum
CSO Development Roles and Calls to Action for FfD and Post 2015 The United Nation’s Third Conference on Financing for Development (FfD3) was immediately preceded by the CSO Forum on July 11-12 at the Desalegn Hotel in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The Hunger Project’s Policy Analyst, Mary Kate Costello, attended the several plenaries and meetings, noting…