-
G20 Leadership for Post-2015
Note – THP will be represented at the June 2014 C20: the Civil Society Forum of the G20 Summit. THP is an NGO registered in 9 members of the G20. Under Australia’s presidency, the G20 will focus on economic growth and resilience, and the C20 is addressing four key issues. In partnering with women and…
-
Easterly: Rights of the Poor are Key
On May 7, 2014 the mighty THP-DC team attended a discussion by the NYU professor and author William Easterly and the World Bank Chief Economist for the MENA region Shanta Devarajan (former colleagues). The topic was Easterly’s new book The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor. Unlike his previous…
-
Obama Council issues first report
April 14, 2014 – Washington DC – President Obama’s Global Development Council issued its first report today entitled Beyond Business as Usual at a public meeting in Washington attended by THP. The Council made recommendations in four major areas: Harnessing the Private Sector by creating a Development Finance Bank, strengthening OPIC and taking better advantage of…
-
Germany’s New Development Cooperation Policy
On March 7-8, our German National Board Member Jemima Hartshorn and I had the opportunity to attend the annual Eichholz Conference of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (Foundation) – the philanthropic arm of the current ruling party (CDU). The highlight of the Eichholz Conference was a talk (starting the session where I also presented The Hunger Project) by…
-
Forging resilience: defining next steps and building on initial gains
Forging Resilience: A Symposium at American University (AU) Washington, DC, February 25, 2014 A number of practitioners, evaluators, educators, researchers, funders, and representatives of civil society organizations and development agencies convened at the American University Washington, DC campus for a daylong symposium themed Forging resilience: defining next steps and building on initial gains. The participants…
-
Integrated and Multi-sectoral Rural Development
“Interdependence between different sectors means that poor health, food insecurity and poverty cannot be tackled effectively by addressing one sector in isolation. Influencing sustainable and positive change means adopting a holistic, multi-sectoral approach to development.” (MDG Center, East and Southern Africa, 2007). Almost half of the world_over three billion people ,live on less than $2.50 a…
-
Latest on US Budget and Farm Bill
Health and Nutrition The Kaiser Family Foundation has done a detailed analysis on the new US budget here and points out that it raises US funding for Global Health to the highest annual rate ever – US$ 9.1 billion. InterAction’s budget analysis shows that investing in Global Nutrition was increased by 21% over last year –…
-
A Panel on Ending Extreme Poverty in Conflict-Affected Contexts at Center for American Progress 01/28/14
A panel was held at the Center for American Progress (CAP) this morning on ending extreme poverty in conflict-affected contexts. Among the Panelists were Alex Thier, Assistant to the Administrator, USAID , Larry Attree, Head of Policy, Saferworld ,Nancy E. Lindborg, Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA), USAID , John Norris, Executive…
-
Raj Shah on Ending Poverty
On November 21, 2013 USAID Administrator Raj Shah spoke at Brookings, saying that the End of Poverty is within our reach, and would be the top priority of the agency. Click on the image at right to download USAID’s new brochure on this subject, and click here for the full text of Shah’s remarks. Shah…
-
Obama commits to end extreme poverty in 20 years
Not since FDR’s Four Freedom’s speech in 1941 has a US president spoken out strongly for ending world hunger and poverty in a State of the Union Address, as did President Obama in his February 12, 2013 address. In one paragraph he expressed a broad, multi-pronged commitment: “We also know that progress in the most…