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  • Top 10 Policies for Civil Society Engagement

    Top 10 Policies for Civil Society Engagement

    June 28, 2017: The Hunger Project recommends that international governmental organizations (IGOs) adopt the following practices for effectively engaging with civil society as an essential element of good governance: Major Groups: IGOs should utilize a framework like the major groups defined by the UN, rather than dealing with civil society as a single category. IGO […]

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    June 29, 2017
  • PNPM Progress: A Path Towards Sustainability in Indonesia

    PNPM Progress: A Path Towards Sustainability in Indonesia

    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). Also funded by: AusAid, CIDA, DANIDA, USAID, EU, UKAID, and the Dutch Government  Photo Credit: World Bank, PNPM (Peduli) […]

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    March 15, 2017
  • Decentralization: The Key to Local Development

    Decentralization: The Key to Local Development

    Fiscal Decentralization and Development Countries around the world are increasingly recognizing the impact fiscal decentralization can have on both national and community level development. Fiscal decentralization is characterized by a shift in financial responsibility from a central government to a local municipal government. Decentralization is a key element for development because it puts power back into […]

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    November 22, 2016
  • Gender & Governance in rural India, Ghana, and Ethiopia

    Gender & Governance in rural India, Ghana, and Ethiopia

    In 2010, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the World Bank (WB) conducted an analysis of agricultural extension and clean water access in rural areas in India, Ghana, and Ethiopia. The surveys were conducted in approximately 1,000 households in each country. Access to agricultural extension varied across the three countries. There was reported […]

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    August 24, 2016
  • Building the Capacity of Youth as Leaders of Today -The Kampala Principles for Youth Led Development

    Building the Capacity of Youth as Leaders of Today -The Kampala Principles for Youth Led Development

    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 level. These principles (listed below) originated from an initiative started in 2007 when representatives from  UN-Habitat´s One Stop Youth […]

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    February 25, 2016
  • Sustainable Development by 2030 Requires Community-led Development

    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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    October 22, 2015
  • Financing Community-led Development: Putting People First

    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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    August 5, 2015
  • Localizing the SDGs in Malawi

    Localizing the SDGs in Malawi

    On May 15, 2015, The Hunger Project and World Vision co-hosted a nationally-broadcast panel discussion in Lilongwe on localizing the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals in Malawi. The focused and frank discussion resulted in significant commitments to greater partnership among five key groups of development actors. The panelists include: Chris Kang’ombe, Principal Secretary of the Malawi […]

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    June 9, 2015
  • Our perspective on the Global Nutrition Report

    Our perspective on the Global Nutrition Report

    Background: Nutrition is a huge and difficult challenge, requiring convergent action on many fronts: agriculture, health, WASH, education and – most importantly – gender equality and female empowerment. Those championing this action have been held back by the lack of timely data — until now. In the aftermath of the the 2013 Nutrition for Growth summit in […]

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    February 24, 2015
  • Elements of the Post-2015 Political Declaration

    Elements of the Post-2015 Political Declaration

    The United Nations has invited comment on its draft document on the Elements of the Post-2015 Political Declaration, available at this link. Our president and CEO addressed the intergovernmental interactive session on 19 February 2015: click to download the Statement by Åsa Skogström Feldt. Here is an expanded version of The Hunger Project’s response to the […]

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    February 17, 2015
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