by Mary Kate Costello | Apr 12, 2019 | Community-led Development, Education, Gender, Health, Human Rights, Livelihoods, Nutrition, PMNCH, SDGs, WASH, youth
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...
by Mary Kate Costello | Nov 15, 2018 | Community-led Development, Gender
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...
by Nikita C. Birkbeck | Mar 15, 2017 | Activism, Aid Effectiveness, Community-led Development, Education, Food Security, Gender, Governance, Health, Human Rights, Hunger, Leadership, Livelihoods, Nutrition, Right to Food, Uncategorized, youth
Indonesia’s Program Nasional Pemberdayaan Mandiri (PNPM), or National Program for Community Empowerment, is a government-led, multi-donor trust-funded pilot program, which is managed by the World Bank Group (WBG) and delivered through the PNPM Support Facility (PSF)....
by Mary Kate Costello | Feb 21, 2017 | Community-led Development, Food Security, Gender, Hunger, Leadership, SDGs, Uncategorized
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...
by Rayricus Matthews | Feb 25, 2016 | Community-led Development, Governance, Human Rights, Leadership
Jon-Andreas Solberg and Douglas Ragan co-authored a very enlightening post on UN-Habitat Youth covering five principles of youth-led development that are being utilized by youth programs globally and has begun to influence policy at the local, national and global...
