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How Are We Doing on the SDGs?
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were conceived as a vision for the post-2015 agenda. They are an action plan to continue the work the Millennium Development Goals started. We are six months into the SDGs. Do we know what’s been accomplished thus far? How are we doing? You can see for yourself how well the world’s […]
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A How-To on Policy Advocacy
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Top 5 Takeaways from the SDSN Guidebook “Getting Started With The SDGs”
Let the work begin! The Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), a Global Initiative of the United Nations, has released a guidebook “Getting Started with the Sustainable Development Goals” (SDGs) to help all stakeholders understand and implement the Post-2015 development agenda. The year 2016 marks the end of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the official launch of […]
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Making the Case for Investing in Nutrition with CONCERN Worldwide
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What Happened to Integrated Rural Development?
By: Susan Chase and Elisa Wilkinson The Hunger Project, August 10, 2015 In 1973, Robert McNamara, then President of the World Bank, was one of the earliest pioneers to boldly describe the alarming facts of absolute poverty in the developing world and to call for a rigorous response based on a moral imperative. In his […]
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Financing for Development – Civil Society Forum
CSO Development Roles and Calls to Action for FfD and Post 2015 The United Nation’s Third Conference on Financing for Development (FfD3) was immediately preceded by the CSO Forum on July 11-12 at the Desalegn Hotel in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The Hunger Project’s Policy Analyst, Mary Kate Costello, attended the several plenaries and meetings, noting […]
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PPD-6: The Basics
The Presidential Policy Directive on Global Development (PPD-6) was released last week after a court order and frames U.S. development policy under three pillar approach. Focused on sustainable development outcomes that value economic growth and democratic governance, game-changing innovations, and sustainable systems for achieving high-impact development, PPD-6 provides development policy with a new operational model and […]
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Women: The Key to Ending Hunger
Hunger Project Paper #8 by Margaret Snyder