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  • Proposed Federal Budget 2018 Fails to Defend the World’s Most Vulnerable Persons

    Proposed Federal Budget 2018 Fails to Defend the World’s Most Vulnerable Persons

      On June 13, three of The Hunger Project’s DC team members joined over 500 people to meet with congressmen and women on issues of hunger and poverty as part of Bread for the World’s annual Lobby Day. Lobby Day brings together NGOs, church groups, and individuals from all over the US to spend a […]

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    June 23, 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
  • Advocating for Youth Leadership to Achieve the SDGs

    Advocating for Youth Leadership to Achieve the SDGs

    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 Annual Youth Forum and the Winter Youth Assembly at the United Nations at the beginning […]

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    February 21, 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
  • The Role of the Small-Scale Farmer in Minimizing Climate Change Impact

    The Role of the Small-Scale Farmer in Minimizing Climate Change Impact

    Climate Change and Food Security The State of Food and Agriculture 2016 has made it clear that the agricultural industry is currently at a point in time where the actions taken by farmers, development organizations, and governments today will directly affect the livelihood of millions in the future. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations estimates […]

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    October 18, 2016
  • Achieving Gender Equality though Economic Empowerment

    Achieving Gender Equality though Economic Empowerment

    A Call to Action In September 2016, the United Nation’s High-Level Panel for Women’s Economic Empowerment released its first report on the actions necessary to close the global gender gap in economic empowerment. The report, “Leave No One Behind”, emphasizes the unfair circumstances that disproportionately affect women in the workplace, i.e. wage gaps, job security vulnerability  associated with informal […]

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    October 17, 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
  • Common Violence Hinders the Common Man and Woman

    Common Violence Hinders the Common Man and Woman

    Haugen likens the cloud of locusts that swept over the middle of the United States in 1873, a force that devoured and decimated everything in its path, to the plague of violence that infects the world’s poor and inhibits progress towards a better life.

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    August 11, 2016
  • OECD Report: Women & Money, or Lack Thereof

    OECD Report: Women & Money, or Lack Thereof

    Where is all the money? This OECD report bears bad news for gender equality in global development.

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    August 3, 2016
  • Gender Nutrition Report Review

    Gender Nutrition Report Review

    June 14 in The Dirksen Senate building marked the 2016 Gender Nutrition Report (GNR) launch. Some of people who made this launch possible included Roger Thurow (Senior Fellow ,The Chicago Council on Global Affairs), Marie Ruel ( Division Director of Poverty, Health and Nutrition Division, IFPRI, Patrick Stover (Professor and Director at the Division of […]

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    July 26, 2016
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