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Ending Hunger and Community-Led Development: What are the causal links?
Literature Review by THP Program Team chaired by Rowlands Kaotcha I. Unpacking “ending hunger” “Hunger” is not a scientific term; it represents a basket of multiple nutrition issues. Thus, studies have focused on the specific interventions for each nutrition component which together make up “ending hunger.” The G8 commitment to food security (G8, 2009) followed…
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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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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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DC Launch of 2016 Access to Nutrition Index
Last week, the Access to Nutrition Foundation Executive Director Inge Kauer presented the most recent Access to Nutrition Index (ATNI) for 2016 at the InterAction office in Washington, DC. The Access to Nutrition Foundation is an independent nonprofit based in the Netherlands, with the objective of assessing and contributing to the improvement of the private…
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UNICEF Calls for Innovation
The 2015 State of the World’s Children Report – Reimagine the future: Innovation for every child, expresses the need for cooperation from the global community to find advanced and unconventional ways to address the age-old problem that is still affecting the lives of the innocent children all over the world, which is poverty and malnutrition.
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Evidence for Integrated Development
FHI360 has conducted the first phase of a program to gather the evidence on the pros-and-cons of integrated approaches to development. In this first phase, they published a report that reviews existing studies. Of the 25 program types, 13 produced mostly positive findings; 9 produced mostly mixed findings; and 3 suggest a neutral or unknown…
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Multi-purpose Nutrition Indicators: Measuring Progress of Comprehensive Post 2015 Development Agenda
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are meant to be a comprehensive and universal framework for improving development and eradicating hunger and poverty – in all of its forms. Its current draft is favorably ambitious. However, there is wide concern among implementing multi-laterals, NGOs and member states about the capacity to achieve the goals given the large number…
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World Bank Crisis Meeting on Ebola
At the 2014 Annual Meetings of the World Bank and IMF, President Jim Yong Kim led world leaders in forging a far-more urgent and specific consensus on what to do to halt the Ebola epidemic in the three affected countries, put in place a sustainable public health care system in those countries, and kick-start their…
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Countdown to 2015 – 2014 Report
Countdown launched its 2014 Report on June 30, 2014, at the Partners’ Forum of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH), held in Johannesburg, South Africa. Countdown was a co-sponsor of the Forum, together with PMNCH, A Promise Renewed, and the independent Expert Review Group (iERG). THP is a member of PMNCH and…
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UNCoLSC Recommendations to increase access to, and use of Life-saving commodities
“Every Woman Every Child. This focus is long overdue. With the launch of the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health, we have an opportunity to improve the health of hundreds of millions of women and children around the world, and in so doing, to improve the lives of all people.” — United Nations Secretary-General…