by John Coonrod | Jun 22, 2019 | Human Rights
A rapid assessment was carried out by The Hunger Project in October 2017 primarily to identify the violent extremist issues relating to the recent Rohingya influx and the community hosting them. It is clear that the welcoming attitude of the host community toward the...
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 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 Andrea Ayers | Sep 29, 2016 | Gender, Human Rights
Until recently, the human rights of half the world’s population – women – were not universally protected, nor accepted in most parts of the world. In 2014, the United Nations (UN) released a publication, “Women’s Rights are Human...
by Erin East | Aug 11, 2016 | Activism, Human Rights, Uncategorized
In the 2014 book The Locust Effect, Gary Haugen makes the case that “common violence” impedes progress in international development. Haugen likens the cloud of locusts that swept over the middle of the United States in 1873, a force that devoured and decimated...
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...
